Show FOUR WOUNDED IN LABOR RIOT STERLING Ill in March 1 i INS- INS S Tear gas guns answered a barrage ot of rocks a dePuty sheriffs clashed with n nearly j strikers in a battle at the Northwestern Barbed Wire pl Plant early today that left four men Vo Wounded Among those hurt was wa Sheriff A. A E. E rL Hamilton of Whiteside county was vas leading the force of 65 S towns town's deputies JIM policemen and nd half a dozen of f the he ale Vroman a striker of Sterling Ster Ster- ling was the most seriously wound- wound ed His right leg was h i 2 amputated below the knee where it was shattered shat- shat by a ricocheting tear gas Shell sHel hell Shot Iz in Groin Charles O. O Guthrie 28 another IM Striker was shot in the groin alleg alleg- a plant foreman who fired when pickets tried to stop his car I he as-he drove through the picket t lines Unes Sheriff Hamilton suffered a deer deep Rash gash on his leg from a rock while Deputy Chester O'Hare was knocked unconscious and his head cut by a aStone astone astone stone hurled in the melee Five men were taken takei in custody and ad held on charges of inciting a ariot ariot ariot riot after the tear gas shells routed throng the of strikers They were Michael S W 0 O C representative of the Milwaukee J district Lawrence Kelly former president of the union here and three emI em em- I loyes Leland Tedrick Carl Moline and Irving Berger Start of Trouble The The trouble began bega at the stroke of midnight At that time the contract contract contract con con- tract expired between the company and the S W 0 C an affiliate of the C CIO I O. O About of the more than w workers walked off the job and threw a picket line around the plant Th They y were joined by from the day shift sympathizers an and sc scores res of curious onlookers until the crowd swelled to ne nearly Sheriff Hamilton said the company company com corn pany pany had refused the demands of the C CIO I 0 union for br sole bargaining rights in line with a protest from the A F L local in the plant The Theold Theold Theold old contract had covered only the C I 0 O members Attempts of the opposite fa faction tion to break to break through the line of pickets started a a. score of fist fights and de developed eloped into a general out- out bt bak ak |