Show Pickets Attack Troops Troops' In St. St Paul Meat Strike SOUTH ST. ST P PAUL UL Minn May 15 UP UP-C UP CIO I 10 0 packing house pickets fought a brief bric battle against heavily armed national guardsmen Saturday as th they defied defied defied de de- de- de fied an order to let into the Swift Co packing plant here Fist fighting broke out and lasted lasted lasted last last- ed several minutes before the militia rushed in reinforcements with fixed bayonets to holdback hold an angry crowd that was shouting shouting shouting shout shout- ing its support rt of the defiant pickets Strikers flailed away at some of the guardsmen The troops warded off the blows but did not strike back with rifle butts There was no shooting The pickets cursed and jeered the guardsmen I The pickets finally stepped aside and let let enter the plant No one was injured in the skir skir- mish Three pickets pickets' were arrested Soldiers with rifles and pistols escorted the through the picket lines to th the boos and jeers of onlookers Sullen pickets Joined in the taunts but made no attempt to interfere after the fighting Guardsmen also were stationed at the thc smaller Armour Co plant There was no violence at that plant but were not going through the lines despite presence of at guardsmen behind a small line of pickets All AU was quiet at near by Newport Newport New New- port scene of bloody fighting Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day between a band of men See Sec Page Fage 2 2 Column 8 PACKING STRIKE Continued from Page Pare 1 and workers at the Cudahy Pack Packing Packing ing Co plant I IThe j The fighting began here aft ft began entering UH t Swift plant at the start of tJ the l first shift The pickets machine machI guns and rifles rilles leveled at it t them thim fell back and opened their linfor line lin for the Then some pickets stepped in front of a cu W attempting to pass through the thI plant gates t Step aside a The pickets refused to budr Other pickets closed their ran ranks and booed and jeered as the guardsmen gw stepped In to force forc U the pickets in front of or the car to mot Guard officers called headquarters immediately for more troop to strengthen the Swift plant de de- tail Within a matter of at 40 truckloads of troops thundered into the area from tram near near near-bj bivouacs 5 Each truck contained 20 m me Fifteen en jeeps and several am amb lances also sped to the scene scent a I Sentries Watch atch atch Crowd 1 Jp of ot fight fighting After the first ing sentries fixed bayonets IM wa watched the outside tw gates with their rifles at tw ready The guard contingent at SW was part of a provisional team organized late Saturday orders of Gov Coy Luther Youn to suppress rioting which raged through th packing house Minn Miss du duing dWing dW duro here and a at Newport in ing the last three da days l' l i taunts at tw Pickets shouting soldiers and Jeering J opened their ranks rank t tallow w l' wallow allow some officer and orr workers to enter the Swift plant Then they closed them to do som something some something dared the guardsmen thing about it They at al first l Ir J they would obey gu orders to allow allo tf accordance wi the in enter plant a court injunction lL Workman Shouts S Scab b J JAre Are you going to Jet s eJ CJ workman shouted A If in a L tenant nodded Three Three pickets stepped in IT of ot a car attempting to to P An arm n through the gates plated half halftrack track rolled up tip to J th CJ ci and a gates and the lieutenant ej to 4 u tam tain ordered the pickets aside aalde u ten j l f aided by The two officers t with rifles tried enlisted men arrest under place the pickets Strikers rushed in in- S at the era erato crow rifles rUles their pointed in la t to keep others from Joining fight defiant The pickets were leveled rifles and su 0 of the i order from direct Under a tir no there w Wa in charge Embittered pickets P rn with officers and un to place them who sought cl orders order t v va to arrest for Ignoring a road to traffic 4 |