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Williamsport Sun: September 10, 1937 – Mayor Urged to Place Limit on Picketers

Appeals to impose restrictions upon strikers at the R&G Knitting Mills, Third and Park streets were being made to Mayor Charles D. Wolfe, by the Williamsport Civic Club and a delegation of parents of Clay School pupils.

The complaints, spokesman said, grow out of the conduct of persons along the picket line that has moved along West Third Street in front of the mill for the last four weeks.

Mrs. Thomas J. Hanne, president of the Civic Club made the appeal only after residents of the vicinity enlisted its assistance.

She exclaimed, “We feel that when citizens in that vicinity appeal to us. It is time for the club to take some actions.”

The Clay parents will ask the mayor to take whatever steps are necessary to protect their children coming and going from school. They said the 114 pupils must pass the picketed plant and that yesterday and today the children had to walk along the curb or on the grass because picketers occupied the sidewalk.