Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-22 | Page 2 | 2 Shot, 19 Hurt in Milk Strike

2 SHOT 19 1 9 HURT HURTIN IN f MILK ILK STRIKE CAMDEN N N. Y Aug 22 UP iT- iT T Two o men were shot and ns injured today at the Dairymen's I league plant here here- herein in what state state- police said was a minute 15 milk strike free for between farmers farm farm- ers and dairy farmers' farmers union pick pick- ets Taken to a RomeN Y hospital were Roman Charney Boonville and Russell Lyons Falls des described by State Police Ray Fogarty as pickets Charney shot in the abdomen is In critical al conditIonS condition was was wounded Inthe in inthe inthe the leg Several others were hurt by clubs and rocks Corporal Fogarty said the shots were fired from a milk truck entering entering en en- terin the plant by Gerald Blowers Blow Blow- ers ers Hillsboro on one of several farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers riding in irs the vehicle Blowers was placed in protective custody at atthe atthe atthe the league plant after the melee Fogarty told this this' story of the shooting The milk truck left Hillsboro three miles from Oneida Oneida Camden in jn nei neida da co county nty this thu m morning and d entered entered entered en en- the plant There about 50 pickets rushed the truck and began began bejan be- be gan jan dumping its milk A fight started in which stones were hurled and clubs wielded Blowers armed with a shotgun began Degan firing Two men fell wounded wound wound- ed Blowers was disarmed and taken i to the plant All the injured suffered bruises The most seriously hurt was Floyd Henderson a picket who was hit by y rocks and clubs and taken to a Rome hospital Corporal Fogarty said it was was the first disturbance at Camden since the Dairy Farmers' Farmers union strike started started-a a week ago Six years ago Oneida county was the scene of bloodshed and violence during a similar milk strike