The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-08-21

Leaders Making Plans for Giant.
>Walk-out sep. Demand !
Share Ia War Profits.
REM1Na \ aToN 'AllIRlMs STRIKE
SAID TO BE PREMATURE
Eight Hour @Day First Require
.ment of Union AK for Rea-
; sonable: Wage Increase.

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NEW York; IuEl 2o.-rhe final
steps in the :csnapatgn that is ex-
pected to climax II a gigantic general
strike Of the employees in the muni-
ton manufacturing plants of this
country are being laid at a conference
of the heads OF the machinists union
in Hartford, Conn President w. H.
Johnston Of, the International Asso-
citation Of MachiniSts. Vice President
J. ]. .Keppler and Mother high labor
officials are III consultation with about
SO organizers who have been work
ing in the munitions plants for the
last six months.
The organizers have been called to-
gether to advise the labor heads of
the strength Of the unions and the
attitude Of the manufacturers, and to
help formulate the demands to be
made. f.s5Sits.l
..', would Share Profits.
J. For months all the machinery at
the disposal of the international
unions of metal workers: has been at
work to get for thesWorkers q part o:
the millions In pranta that the treas
uries Of the aliesEaxe pouring into
New England for snhnitions Of war:
The strike at ethe s|Rsnington plants
was a. premature e}plosion.t. ~ !.
had beelh "a TO call 4 the
genAral j ~ 81 sf1eE1 ..sa3 Nhes PLAINS
we're Ill laid to 1diast snd,s and those
plans have. now been g completed.
There have been no changes made
In the plans 2ot Keppler, who re-
CARDS the concessions granted by the
REMINGTON firm as very valuable,
in as much as he hopes other fac
tories will adopt the Remington pro-
gram rather than. to permit a strike
which would entail the loss of many
millions Of those who are furnishing
the enemies Of the kaiser with the
sirieWs of war.
1t Is estimated that the major part
Of the supply of arms and ammuni-
tions shipped to he allies is made in
New England. Almost every kind of
machine factor is now making mu-
nitions. In every manufacturing town
there are machine shops that In times
of peace make anything from a pro-
sale plough or alarm clock to an
automobile which are now turning
out munitions.
:, 10000 In Plants.
Remington Arms and Ammunition
company, Bridgeport, 10000
Union Metallic Cartridge company.
Bridgeport, $4,000. >r.:
winchester Repeating: Arms COM
pany, New Haven, $4,000. ...
Colt Patent Fire Arms. company,
Hartford, 5000. >. :.
Smith & Wesson company. Spring
field. 1000 -
Hopkins & Allen, Norwich, Conn.,.
5000.
liver johnson Arms company.
Fitchburg, Mass, $500.
General Electric company. Pitts
field, Mass, 5000: 49,.
Marlin Fire Arms company, New
Haven, 1000. -.~> =
+ American & British Manufacturing
company, Bridgeport. 5000. -
J.: Stevens Arms & Tool company.
Chicopee Falls; Mass, 4,000..
United States Cartridge company,
Lowell, Mass, 1000. -, $50, =
l. These are the leading firms. How
small their total stands in the real In
dustrial strength that is making mu-
,nitions Of war IL shown by the aitua-
ton in Bridgeport, where 10000. per-
sons are engaged in the trade who
are working for firms never con-
nected with the making OF tools Of
war, as popularly conceived. -
Hours and Pay. -
The mRchinists' first demand is
the s-hour day. Coupled with this
10 a demand for an increase. In wages
which varies from 10 to 20 per cent.
It is said that almost all Of the big
firms In New England are ready to
grant the 8-hour. day or q reduction
In the present hours. Thousands Of
workers have got increase, In pay
from manufacturers, who. acted vol
unfairly or to avert the threatening
strike. .5 $50 >S>
Il Nas axterss the seminTon strike -
into I. which the machinists were
drawn II sympathy when they de.
cidsd "a sstfls the s-hour problem in
.BrtdgepdEtt,- - dsssaroag tho strike
to public q Att1ntion thl& KepplSrs de-
cid6d to spsnd sths ttinne ;bstWssn then
and 6ep1t 81 1nS appe pea linz to- anufant-
ureas az mlpat 10 gtyo S-hour
day and ma :.s5s I'll.
III Ksppler al sllns fully 3oo, 900
NJ ~ 1s.s a 49, peas4.i : -,
Etr46s1 ut II g $500 g,
50 8 q y. |l1l II q I. Z o. !