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Women Picketers Block Oil Plant Entrances at Sugar Creek
About 100 women relatives of 750 strikers prevented petroleum shipments by standing on railroad tracks at the Standard Oil refinery. A scuffle with sheriff's deputies followed as clerical workers were escorted from the plant. Plant manager P C Live say kept women clerks overnight. A circuit court order restrains the union, hearing set for July 31. Company seeks $150,000 in damages for claimed $50,000 in lost business.
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Independence
Standard Oil
Sugar Creek
Sheriff's Deputies
P. C. Livesay
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Local 5672