The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-10
DANGER OF BIG STRIKE HERE IS QUICKLY INVERTED Amicable Adjustment of Differences Among Crafts
 is Reached. CARPENTERS WILL
 BE STRONGER NOW International Officers Hurry Here To Adjust Grave
 Difficulty.

A strike of union men, which would have involved at least 800 ironworkers and maohintsts, has been narrowly averted at the Bridgeport Arms Works in Boston avenue. Differences of opin- ion and negotiations culninated last night in the arrival of three interna- tionaI heads, and there followed indf- viduaI meetings and conferences of the Carpenters & Jodners' union, the Machinists' union and the Metal Work CTS union.
 The conferences which lasted until after midnight resulted in a harmoni- ous understanding being reached be- tween the Carpenters union and the Ironworkers in Bridgeport who had threatened to split over the question of rni1lwrights' Jurisdiction in placing machinery into the new buildings of the Bridgeport Arms Works.
 The 1ronworkers will permit the work to be done by mi1lwrights aff1lt- ated with the Carpenters & Joiners' union and a number of applications for such membership are now before the officers of the Carpenters' union for action at the next meet1ng.
 Those international heads who came to this city were J. J. Keppler, inter national vtce-president of the Inter natioIal Association of Machinists, Washington, D. C.; John Flynn, Chi cago, H., genera lorganizSr for the United States Of Carpenters and Join CTS of America, and G. Johnson, In dianapolis, Ind, international prest- dent of the Iron workers of America
 Immediately upon their arrival in this city special meetings were called to ascertain the exact Mtuation. It was found that the ironwOr21ers who were in a minority at the arms plant demanded the privilege of installing certain parts of the machinery now being taken in. The machinists who also take care of certain other DOT tions of the mechanical work were sympathetic towards the claims of the tronworkers and In the event of a strike would also have been called out The carpenters claimed hat the naill- wright work which includes the level ling of machinery, setting of shafting, etc., came entirely under their yjurfs- d9ctdon. They cite other cities where the same differences of opinion had obtained
 the parS of the ironwor1cers to strike but when the carpenters produced the turisdfctional rules of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- CTS as authorized by the American Federation of Labor to which all the bodies belong the other organisations were willing to withdraw their de- mands, at least temporarily.
 According to the present decision, nnillwrights, who have not been organ 1z6Q Tn rH1S city VIII come 01r6cLIy un- der the Jurisdiction of the carpenters. They will have charge of all unload ing, hodsttng, disTnant1ing, erecting, as- sembling, lining and adjusting of all machines used in the transmission of power in buildings, factories or else where, whether the power is electric 1ty, gas, steam, gasoline, water or/air.
 They will also have charge of the setting of all classes of engines, mo- tors, dynamos, generators, air-com- pressors, the fitting of ali <pulleys and 1iy-wheels and the setting of all tenn p1ets for machinery requiring founda- tions and bolts
 This decision Is one of the most i'm portant settled in labor circles in this city in many years, as it means that the 1nilfwrights, who have heretofore been in the minority are now becoming g strong in Bridgeport and much jur1s- dtctfon that has previously been over looked by the carpenters in small shops will now be strictly enforced with the result that the Carpenters union will become, stronger body than heretofore in point of numbers. As a result of the visit of the -varf- ous international heads greater har-
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