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Paperworkers In N.Y. Rally Against Concessions
Led by United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) Local 1478, more than 350 workers from nearly every union in the Glens Fall/ Southern Adirondack, New York, area turned out for a spirited mass picket that confronted replacement workers as they left the Encore Paper mill here April 26.

Paperworkers from the nearby Finch-Pruyn mill and from International Paper at Corinth were prominent on the line. Bricklayers, carpenters, millwrights, communication workers, letter carriers, garment workers, and many others came out to support the embattled strikers at Encore.

The situation became tense when two lines of pickets shifted from locations in front of the 125-year-old mill and challenged scabs as they left a production gate at the 7:00 p.m. shift change. Some 100 replacement workers have been in the mill since the beginning of the strike four weeks earlier.

Saratoga County sheriff's deputies issued a call for reinforcements and soon 20 cop cars from other local and New York State police departments rushed to the scene. However, by that time the shift change had occurred and the mass picket was winding down. The cops still managed to arrest three unionists who were on the line.

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