Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-21
MEN IN WAR SHOPS
OBEY STRIKE CALL
Labor Leaders at Bridgeport
Claim 500 MachiniSts Have
Quit Work.
u. M. c. PLANT EMPLOYEES
RESPOND TO THE WHISTLE
Union Officials Declare Entire Mu-
nitions Industry Will Be Tied
! Up by Saturday.

BRIDGEPORT. Conn, July 21.-In
response to a parade and demonstra-
tion at noon today in front of the L.
NJ. c. plant. the machinists came out
and mingled with the strikers and
pickets
When the whistles called the work
ers back to their machines nearly all
of them returned. Then the pickets
started marching up and down in front
of the shops. calling to the workers.
The small force of police present
thrust themselves into the crowds and
tried to disperse them, but the num-
Der was too great.
Police headquarters was notified and
all the city detectives as well as uni
formed police were hurried to the spot
The sidewalk and street for several
blocks were lined with. men, women
and girls when the extra force of Off
GERS arrived.
Claims of Labor Leaders.
Strike calls today resulted in machinists
throwing down their tools in a num-
Der of Bridgeport shops and walking
out
Labor leaders claimed they had taken
ITO additional men from two plants
doing work for the Remington Arms
and Ammunition Company: that pickets
had succeeded in keeping eighty men
from work at the new plant of the
Remington concern; that 100 men on
the night shift at the Union Metallic
Cartridge Company had gone on strike
and that during the noon lunch hour
hundreds of men on the day shift would
quit.
Nearly 500 Men Idle.
They estimated this forenoon that
nearly five hundred skilled machinists
were then on strike. They reiterated
their statement that there would be a
complete close-down of war munition
factories by Saturday.
Disorder seemed imminent twice to-
day. once at the new Bennington plant
tractor making machine tools for the
Remington company. Dirt wagons.
driven two abreast, cleared the road in
front OF the first-named plant
The police. according to an official
connected with the contracting concern,
dispersed strikers and sympathizers
there after they had made a demon
stration against the men who remained
At work.
Guards Go on Strike.
The labor leaders asserted that twen-
ty-five guards at the Remington plant
had gone on strike for more money
today. Fifteen were said to have
walked out yesterday.
Shortly before noon a large crowd
of machinists gathered at the head
quarters in the center of the city and
formed into line. They then started
to march to the big L. NJ. C. plant On
the outskirts of the city. The men in
the parade, according to the leaders
were 10 start demonstration in front
OF the L. NJ. c. shops. The paraders.
IL was said, also would do picket duty.
All the men in the parade were strik-
ers, II was said
Visited at Their Homes.
N was learned today that many Of
The machinists employed by the Rem
ington company We're visited at their
MONIES last night by committees who
requested them either to stay awav
from the plant entirely today or heed
the instructions of the pickets in front
OF the plant According to Thomas ].
savage. member of the executive
hoard OF the International Association
o. Machinists. in charge of the stu.
a'loH during the absence of J. J. Kep-
PIER Vice president. number of ma
ehinists did not go to the works at all
today
Policemen Were stationed in front of
the ReEington plant today Several
times they dispersed crowds Of men
Many of these admitted thew were
either pickets OF strikers. One man,
who said he was union organizer. re
FUSED 70 move on when told to do
50 by policeman. He was Threatened
with arrest, but informed the notice
man that he understood the laws OF
The state and that il the policeman
carried out his threat he was likely 10
discover he had made a mistake He
was not forced to move.
Toolmakers Walk Out.
Labor leaders announced this fore.
noon that the nachinists in the plan
of the Grant Manufacturing Machints
Company and Coulter & Mckenzie
Machine Company had walked out
Twenty men, they said, had left tn,
Grant concern and ninety had uui,
work al the Coulter & Mckenzie works
One concern makes tools for the Rem
fngton company and the other manu-
facturers toolmaking machines.
IL was also announced that when tn,
night shift left the L. NJ C. plant O.
the Remington company TODAY the,
were stopped by pickets One hundred
, men on the night shift, said the la boz
leaders, agreed to quit. The labor lead
ers claim that these additional figures
bring the number of expert machinist
on strike up to approximately AGO.
An official OF the Coulter & Mckenzie
Company said that a large part of hi,
men had walked out, but because al
the extent of operations in the pla nj
the management had been unable Il
determine the actual number
1t was reported In labor circles to.
day that woman organizers had beer
ssut 10 Bridgeport from New York Il
organize the women and girls workinS
in all III. factories here. Many girl,
arc crlployed by the Remington con
Germ, while others are working in cor
set and waist nsnufa ctories. Definit,
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