The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-21
Columbia Nut 6 Bolt Go. s Men 60 Back to Work When Announcement is Made of Cancellation of U. M. c. Contracts.

The first real picketing scene was enacted at the Remington Arms & Ammunition plant last night when union members of the nlacllinists gathered ito greet the union and non union n1achinists who had not come out of the factory at noontime. There were many Interesting debates between the two factions which were stopped by the police when the feel ing became intense. At one time so closely and thickly were the factions and spectators packed on the cement bridge on Boston avenue that it looked as if. the police would take action. A new method was intro- duced, whether by chance rather than design is not known, but it had immediate effect This method was to pass heavy teams backwards and forwards four deep on the avenue, two abreast eastward and two abreast westward. T'Ile police had no more to do.
 Thomas y, Savage. member of the executive board of the American AIachinists, took personal charge of the picketing and after tfle o'clock campaign was over announced that they had managed to pull out about 15O of the day force and 70 night workers who had come to work but were induced by pfekets to return home.
 It was later announced by the leaders that about 50 nachinfsts and tool and die sinkers had walked out at the Gaynor Manufacturing Co.,: 20 from the Bridgeport Engineering Go. s shops and 25 from the Middle street branch of the Arms Co.
 At the Columbia, Nut As Bolt fac tory the leaders had met with the announcement that rather than have their men on strike the company had cancelled it's contracts with the Arms company and while the men were first notified to go out it was later agreed by the leaders that these men should be permitted to work out the day subject to last nights decision of the Machinists' union as to what fur ther action should be taken.
 Explanation was offered by Leader Savage as to the hasco responsible for the noontime failure at the Arms plant. This was to the effect that owing to expected arbitration from an unknown New York source. the leaders had thought best not to give the final strike order to the men inside the plant{ until they came out at the lunch hour. Major Penfield's flank movement of keeping all the men inside the guarded enclosure had frustrated their efforts to trans
 init the orders and it was not until night that they could be given.
 J. J. Keppler, international vice. president of the I A of M, went to New York yesterday to confer in mat ters relating to the international pa perAworkers' strike. He was also ex- 4pected to me4 another prominent New Yorker wlfo had signihed a will ingness to use his influence to avert the pending struggles here.
 It was announced that International Vice President Frank Jennings and Dan ConIan were securing the coun- try today in an effort to get com plete list of factories doing U. NJ C. work in event of necessity these fac tories might be added to the list in New England where union labor may be called outsif the Remington com panies do not reach an understanding here.
 Announcement was made that Presi- dents Joseph B. A1cClorry of the In ternationaI Association of Structural Bridge and Iron Workers, President Kirby of the Carpenters and Joiners union, President Johnson of the In ternatioraI Association of Machinists and Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, had been called to Washington to confer on this strike situation with President Samuel Gompers. That the national head of the Federation would be questioned as to his recent quoted ut