Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-21
obtained.
Remington Plant Picketed.

The labor leaders admitted last night
that not a man had left work in the
main plant of the Remington compan
at noon yesterday. They said the ran
| ure of the men to quit work was que
| to misunderstanding, but they wouio
not go to work this morning. ineS
| added that the night force of mach1n n,
lists at the Remington plant had failed
| to go to work last night.
| Pickets were at work last night anu
they were said to have been RESPONSE
BILE for the strike of the night force;
Pickets, said the labor men. also wouio
| be responsible for none of the DAY
| force going to work today. Thomas j.
| Savage, member of the executive boaro
of the International Association of Ma
! chinists, stated that about seVenty-nve
men were on the night force that quit
| and that about 100 men in the shops OF
| the subcontractors had walked out. he
| also said that conference was IN
progress in New York last night Whlcn
might lead to settlement of the diff
| culties. He refused to give any de-
| tails of the conference in the absence
| of j. j. Keppler. international vice
| president of the machinlsts, VINO le1t
| Bridgeport last night with the ex-
| ference to settle a labor difficulty IN
the pulp mills of northern New YORK.
Plan for Spreading Strike.
Mr.. Savage also said that he had re-
ceived information that Frank Jen-
nings and J. P. Conlon, vice presidents
of the machinists, were at present en-
gagged in determining what factories
! in the country were making supplies
for consumption by the Remington
company, with the view of calling the
ma chinists in those shops out on strike.
Plans for calling out many more ma
chinists were made last night by the
labor leaders. Mr.. Savage said:
There will be no misunderstanding
will have pickets there and none of the
men will go to work. In addition to
| that, strike call has been issued for
| the old plant of the Remington com
pany-the Union Metallic Cartridge
| Company-and the mechinists to at
| least the number of 200 will walk out
there at noon. In a few days the whole
plant will be closed down. In addition
to this we will call out the shop OF a
large subcontractor, employing about
200 of our men. That shop also Will
walk out at noon"
Concessions to Men Rumored.
Shortly after noon yesterday it was
| said that the walkout had been accom-
plished in all of the shops where it had
been planned. This was quickly fol-
lowed by the news that not man had
left the Remington plant. Rumor had
it that Mai. W. G. Penfield, works man.
aeer OF the Remington company. had
offered the men an eight-hour day, with
a dollar a day added to their wages IL
they would remain at work. The men
were said to have accepted the offer.
This the labor leaders deny. They say
no offer was accepted.
Late in the afternoon the labor lead
ers, accompanied by a number of men
VI n had a cd mi n n
| tracing plant, went to the front of
the Remington company plant and
waited there until the machinists
came from the factory: AS each man
Some of the machinists said they
had held meeting and agreed to stay
at work. Others said that a foreman
told them they would be granted the
eight-hour day with ten-hour pay.
Some of the men who came out
stated that they had no intention of
striking. They declared that they in
tended to go back to work today.
When one machinist made that state
ment to a group of newspaper repre-
| sentatives a picket Interrupted and
said:
Worker Defies Picket.
IF you go to work tomorrow you
| will be fined 500. and if you do not
pay it you will be driven out of town."
IL
some one knocks me in the head with
a brick" replied the machinist to the
picket, who walked away. Policemen
interfered at that point and dispersed
the reporters and the machinists.
The pickets remained at the plant
until long after dark. They instructed
nearly all the machinists to report i'm
mediately at the hall in the center of
the city. Many of the machinists
went to the hall. where the meeting
81 Mr
Savage made the following statement:
This strike is not a failure. We
| merely made a mistake. and we Will
profit by it in the future conduct of
machinists at the meeting tonight, and
| they all said that they would be on
the picket line tomorrow morning. One
hundred and fifty men or SO promised
to be there.
During the noon hour today the
men were held in. Only two or three
got out, and they were unable to find
the strike leaders outside the plant in
could not walk out without positive
orders. 1t is perfectly obvious that we
could not get the call in to them. The
men all received their instructions to-
night"
Where Men Quit Work.
He then said that fifty men were out
at the Gaynor Manufacturing Com
pany. Twenty machinists and helpers,
he said. had left the Bridgeport En-
cheering Company and at least twenty
five had walked out of the Middle
street branch of the Remington Com
pany No men had been taken from
! the plant Of the Columbia Nut and Bolt
Company, Mr.. Savage declared. because
the management of the plant in
formed the leaders that they had
agreed to do no more work for the
Remington concern until the mems
differences were settled. He said no
machinists struck at the Billiard Ma
chine Tool Company. there being no
numbe of any Importance there.
IThirty-flve men were discharged at the
latter plant last week.
| mass meeting was hold in the Hun
garian quarter of Bridgeport last night
| 1t was said 1t was preliminary to a
big strike meeting to be held today.
Several speakers addressed the crowd
and spoke Of organizing the Hun
garans into a union under tho Amer
lean Federation of Labor.
Resent Being Called Peasants"
| When the editor Of a socialist Hun
garian newspaper. published in New
York. Chicago and other cities, started
to speak, one man in the audience rose
and in Hungarian asked why the Hun
garian workers of Bridgeport had been
| referred to as peasants"