The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-29
Eight Hour Day in All! Bridgeport is Inevitable Result of Remington In terests' Favorable Atti- tude, Say Workers.

tude, Say Workers,
 Beyond confirming the in-5 formation he wired here yes-i terday, that satisfactory results had attended his efforts in be- half of the workers of the Rem ington pIants-John J. Kepp1er second international vice presi- dent of the I. A. M, would-noti discuss strike conditions in Bridgeport to-day.
 Keppler was on the job bright and early to-day. He and fhe officers of local No. 30, the Bridgeport branch of the inter national organization, were ella ted at the outcome of the inter national officers efforts. No official statement was given out.
 It was learned, however, that the machinists who failed of getting back sto work in the Remington plants, Monday, will return to their employment in day or two, through the ef= forts of the union.
 The situation at the Remington plants has been so well provided for that the union men are giving it little cts maintained at the Remington plants All that remains there iB for the men to get back to work, as soon as it is made clear that the men who want to go back, are out peeausA of the strike, not for other reasons
 Meanwhile, the situation in the sub contracting plants is rapidly clearing up. It is safe to predict that the men out on strike at the smaller plants will be back at work before the week latest.
 Committees of the local waited on several of the sub-contracting shops todaI and late this afternoon there ters, that the situation in shops WAerez strikes were ons was rapidly eae7Etls up.
 The union machinists are not insist ing upon an eight hour day at once They are willing to be reasonable They will go more than half way to meet the shops whose contracts now being filled are calculated on more than an eight hour working day in the machine and tool departments- This conciIiatorye attitude of the striking machinists has met with a ready re- sponse in several of the factories
 Meanwhile the work at the Coulter & Mckenzie plant, the Bridgeport En- gineering Co.,, Grant Mfg CO. and Gaynor Mfg CO, is imPeded by the absence of the workers. There was a strong hope, at union headquarteEa this afternoon, that most if not all or these factories would agree with the strikers on some terms on which to resume at once the work laid down last week!
 At Coulter & NFeKenzie's, the largest plant outside the Remington plant there were several out of town ma chinfsts working today, but there is such a demand for help that it is noG unlikely that the return of all the strikers would not embarrass the plant at all.
 - Satisfied with the attitude Of the Remington interests towards the de- mands of union labor for participation. in, the golden harvest brought to Bridgeport. by huge war orders the machinists anticipate that other plants here soon will fall into line.
 'TThe Remington plants have made conditions so favorable to the ma chin ists,. said one labor man of much prestige, today, that the other Bridge port manufacturers are going to lose
 
 they do not fall into line. The Rem ington plants have nothing in common with the Bridgeport Manufactures association. Neither the Remington Arms & Ammunition Go, nor the Rem ington J. M. c. Go. is affiliated with the Bridgeport Manufactutrers asso- ciation The latter was a member un- til 2, few months ago, when there was so much petty quarre1ling over the hiring of skilled workmen by the Rem ington people, away from the other Bridgeport plants. that t withdrew co avoid further annoyance. So you see that the Bridgeport manufactures who have not been thinking of an eight hour day. might as well give it some thought now. It's on the way. The only question is, whether it VIII come with good feeling all along the line, or whether there must be a. strus- gle to get it.
 That the disposition to treat fairly
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