“You know the stories about companies bought and companies bankrupted while he made millions and millions of dollars,” Gov. Dannel Malloy said before introducing the president to a crowd of 1,900 in Central High School. “You know the stories of how he would break a strike. He’d hire dogs. He’d hand out hatchets. He would close down work sites…”
While the strike at the T.B. Wood’s factories in Chambersburg, PA included security guards in camouflage and dogs, the hatchet incident was isolated, involving an employee recently interviewed by Hearst Connecticut Media who indeed caught the blunt side of a small hatchet in the face in a confrontation with a replacement worker. There was no allegation that Foley bought the hatchet. But the strike veteran recalled that Foley did indeed hire the replacement worker around the time the striker was fired
Incumbent Democrat Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, left, and Republican candidate for governor Tom Foley