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¶ In Lewiston, Me. about 700 employes of three shoe factories agreed to end their six-week strike, called by C. I. O.'s United Shoe Workers of America, and let a N. L. R. B. election decide the issue of their representation. Strikes in 16 other Lewiston and Auburn shoe plants dragged on, with National Guardsmen patrolling the area where strikers rioted last fortnight after State Supreme Judicial Court Justice Harry Manser had issued an injunction outlawing the strike on the ground that the union had no right to call it until it first determined by N. L. R. B. election that it had a majority of em-ployes (TIME, May 3). Tried before Judge Manser in Lewiston last week on a charge of having continued to encourage the strike despite the injunction. Powers Hapgood, C. I. O. secretary for New England, and five other C. I. O. leaders were found guilty, given six-month jail sentences.
¶ Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, Conn, furnished police protection to strikebreakers hired when the city's unionized garbage collectors struck after one of their fellows had been dismissed on a charge of insulting a housewife.
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