The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-12
About 300 Refuse to Con- tanue Until Strife Between Crafts is Adjusted Inter national Officers Hasten Here.
Union Men And Arms Com any Look to Construction Company to Help in Elf fecting a Speedy Settle me11t.

About 300 1rOn-WOrkeTS en- pIoyed in the construction of dhe new Remington M- C. plant, above Boston avenue walked out on strike this morn ing owing to differences as to jurisdiction between the Iron workers and the carpenters Though it was stated definitely two days ago that the difficall- ties had been overcome, action taken by the beads of tho Iron workers yesterday preeipitafed open hos5zaifies which may re- suit in broadspread strike tlaat. could involve not only the ma,cl1inists and carpenters em- ployed at the big plant, but ey- cry rrlacIlinist who works for any firm that sub contracts for work to be done for the Bridge port Arms Co or the U-. M C.
 T1sre1zasespz,az heads of the various z7rss,Kaznf1nKas aaEected are huEry1ng bo a1sfs city tD-day in an effort to reach an zeeKxaenE which VIII keep the ma chanzs4s from calling q syznpa+hedc rtrEIrs that wOEld involve about 5000 men at fzae Arms and allied plants and 4u11T that number in other factories 4hxuaaomE the city.
 J. l. KepplarA vice spFeaident of the Izsesrnafinuaa Ass0csst1on of nnacs1in- 4stz, who left this o1ty Saturday. Geo- Tohusnn InFeEnat1ona1 president of fI1e Trgryzox7reEs Of An1erIa and John
 
 1pezisars and 1Dansrs Union are hssnezaang stq ta1fs city for conference teFnooE- sss
 c1sar1ss He711, general organizer of me Ia1eTnaf1ona1 Association of M6a- cg15zzskS seen in this city to-day said fhas she ong413 is one of long standing and he'd been previously waged fhrougAaouE the big centers of the JnIssd States He said that if some satisfactory settlement was no Ueach- ed t was not unlikely that the ma c1rzu1a<4 working a the D. M- C. plants would sta1ze m sympathy with the iron workers and that the matter could even he taken 90 far as to call a general strike of all uaachinists and sIni11wr4ghts working in plants that take b-eon1face1ng work from the Rennfngton-G. M C. plants
 John M- Brench. publicity repre- sentative at the Arms company said when asked about the situation, that the axtsnf Of the WaIk-out could not De told today for the reason that 1t was not cnssoznary for tron-xvorkers to follow their occupation on damp days
 while ae was admitted at the offices of the machlntsts in this city that be- tween 200 and 800 were out on the streets today, French was not of the belief Flnat such a number he'd actual Iy struck.
 It was denied that gtxdke@breakers had been brought from New York to replace the irouworkers that were out. Structural steel work an She plant is more than half completed. and work of installing machinery in the big buildings has begun.
 While 1t is asserted in some Quar- ters that the Rezuingtcn-U. M. O. company had been looked to to settle the differences between the workmer themselves, it was said by the pubIfcitS agent today that the entire question was up to the Stewart Construction rcompany. In labor circles it Is var 4o1sIy said that neither the Arms com spany nor the Stewart Company have power to settle the affair which is purely matter of l1nionisrn involving Jurisdiction.