The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-10
5 for warps, pile and selvedge

looms for warps, pile and selvedge troubles.
 A report was handed to the labor officials today that 20 families had been imported by the company direct from France to work in the local mills It is said that such procedure is contrary to the United States laws and that the families are still in Bridgeport investigation by labor heads is likely to begin on this as we'll as staterpents recently made that there are uaany minors working in the mills under dffncuH conditions. and until late hours at night.
 Workers in the factory claimed that the company's statements showing July as a criterion of the years work for weavers are most unjust aA the company failed to state that this was the busiest month in the year and had totally neglected to shoV that work on samples was sometimes done for weeks at minor wages. One speaker went so far as to compute the July wages on a 12-month basis showing that nearly every employe would receive more than $1,0OO per year under such scale whereas the. leverage wage for 52 weeks in the year was only s1o throughout the whole factory
 4 statement be the strike commit. tee, discrediting a statement recently published by the Salts Textile Co., foIlows:
 The committee has gone over < the Salts statement and has found it to be humbug insofar as it concerns the wages paid in France. It is we'll known that the purchasing power of $1 there is altogether different-for in stance a man can rent a house for his family for $4 a month and fAair. ,7snr7 1Ia fs<al faaY- from the Lyons mills, must pay
 SIG to $20 a month in Bridge
 port.
 Now, if the Salts Co. wants to give the public a fair state
 ment, as to the average wage of the weavers, let it give the aver age of all the weavers from Jam uary to December, and not the wages of go weayers for the month of July. when weavers work from 13 to 14 hours day. We can name 50 weavers who have not averaged $9 week
 since January and as far as
 France is concerned, it is out of the question.
 Now let us take the 150 dye house help. Not one Is receiving l L SIP a week for 55 hours and
 where they attended one dye l beck, the company has doubled their work and has given them
 two looms. The wages or some
 of them have been reduced.
 s'The committee wishes to say I. that the Salts strike is not l brought by any labor agitators but by conditions in the plant. :
 The whole plant has been on the l verge of strike for four months and the employees only wanted a
 start as was proved by the fact
 that every department came out.
 ''The committees from every i department fulfilled their prom
 ises and met with the manage l nent, as arranged by MT. Kipp. I Kipp did not He did not come
 to the meeting. All the griev- 1 ances were 1aie before Mr..
 Rhodes by the committee from
 each department, so there is no,
 need of going over that again.
 eff the Salts Go. had the l good of their operatives at heart
 as is claimed, why allow copdi-
 tons to get worse and worse
 every day and not even allow the i women time to wash their hands after working all day on black yarns?
 I Why were the naachinists not
 given an interview when their
 claims were presented in writing
 one week before the strike took
 place?
 "Al1 this goes to show that the
 operatives have not been consfd-
 ntca1 power were taken from some
 of the bosses the employees would
 work more contentedlyl through
 out the whole plant I s'The committee appointed to