From The Press Gazette (Hillsboro, Ohio) 
June 5, 1959 

Strike Incident Reported
In Village of Greenfield

   “Incidents” continue to crop up in the village of Greenfield as a result of the strike at the Greenfield Printing & Publishing Company there.
   The most recent was the filing of a charge of unlawful assault with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a gun, against Donald J. Gilliland, Greenfield Rt. 1, an employee of the printing firm.
   The charge was filed by William [E] East of Greenfield, one of the former employees of the firm who are members of the Dayton Typographical Union 59, International Typographical Union, who struck the compnay last April 15.
   Gilliland pleaded innocent at a hearing Monday before Mayor Robert Smith and was held for action of the Highland County grand jury. Company and union officials attended the hearing.
   The defendant and complainant entered somewhat conflicting reports of the incident which resulted in the court case. East said he was riding in a station wagon owned and driven by Everett Storer of Hillsboro and equipped with a loudpeaker system last Friday afternoon. East said Storer’s car was bumped from behind by Gilliland’s machine. Gilliland then drove alongside the Storer vehicle, East testified. East said to Gilliland, “Get going, scab”; Gilliland said something he could not hear and then pointed a gun at him, East added. East thought it was a .22 or .32 caliber revolver.
   Gilliland submitted a statement claiming he accidentally bumped the station wagon and drove alongside to apologize. He claimed East, a union picketer, “launched a blast of verbal abuse as to my character and parentage.” Gilliland’s statement continued, “Naturally, I was quite taken aback and picked up my nephew’s toy cap pistol which was lying on the seat and waved it about . . .the cap pistol was not loaded.”
   At the hearing, Mayor Smith warned both the union and the company that the village would not tolerate any disorderliness or disturbance by either side in the controversy.
   Storer’s outfit toured the Greenfield district Friday, broadcasting in behalf of the union. Police received numerous compaints on it. Mayor Smith had granted the union permission to use the public address system but a village ordinance of 1954 prohibits such use of loudspeakers and amplifiers on public streets. After the incident, the broadcasts were stopped.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010