New Britain herald., 1915-07-21
slight Disorders Occur When Buecoats Attempt to
! Make Strikers Move On---Paraders Shout "Scabs'
J. and Come Out for Eight Hours to Workers
DEMONSTRATION CAUSES MANY
MACHINIsTS TO QUIT THEIR JOBS

nsIabor Leaders Decline to Comment on
Situation, Saying That Every Time
\ NewsI,apcrlnan Comes Up u
Them Detectives Are Alert Prose
cutor Says Pickets Cannot BE Ar
sested Unless Men stopped Object.
Bridgeport, July 2l.-A demonstra-
tion made by striking machinists in
front of the Union Metallic Cartridge
plant OF the Remington Arms and Am
munition Company, resulted in slight
z disorders when the police attempted
to force the strikers to move on. AS
the demonstration progressed the
police reserves were called out and
rushed to the scene in automobiles.
Great crowds marched through the
streets. The demonstrators accord
ing to the labor leaders, was the
sSausing a number of machinists and
ether workers to walk out. Al
Strikers, who marched to the plant
In a parade from the headquarters Of
the machinists' union in the center
of the city became pickets during the
lunch hour at the plant. When the
8 whistles calling the workers back to
their machines blew nearly all of
hem returned. Some few remained
outside. Then the pickets formed
sst themselves into groups and started
marching up and down lin front of
the shops calling to the workers
g Many left their Inachines and came to
the windows and out an the frees
. Folice WADE INTO crowds. ia,
Come out for eight hours shout
= ed some of the pickets. Others
shouted "Scabs.' The last call rs-
4 suited in q number of girls and men
putting on their hats and coats and
leaving the plant. The small force
& of police present waded into the
crowds around the gates and tried to
disperse the shouting pickets ana pa
Il RAIDERS The number was too great
4 for them, howeye~ The captain in
charge OF the policemen telephoned
to police headquarters and all the
81 city detectives were !. aced IN auto
:.aobils ans hurried fs.t to the U. M.
81 plant. Uniformed police, in
charge, quickly followed. Patrol
men were taken from every pre-
" cinct.
The sidewalk and street for severe
blocks was lined with men, women
ana girls, j the time the extra force
Of police arrived.
Labor Leaders Silent.
Labor leaders in the crowd declined
to comment upon the situation. They
asked not to be talked to on the
street.
~ Every time newspaper corre-
5spcndent comes mp to us some of
These detectives spot u.s. said Thomas
s=asJ SAVAGE, member of the general ex-
scutive board OF the International as
sociation of Machinists who seemed
10 be in charge of the strikers. Other.
& leaders including John A. Johnston,
International vice president of the
n Structural Iron Workers were pres
sent
No Right to Arrest picket.
TIE police asked A. b. Delaney,
q prosecuting attorney OF bridgeport,
Whether they would be justified III
q placing pickets under arrest Mr..
Delaney informed them that they
would not. saying that the pickets
-AelSA q = - III u Sup AEly 4tf&sA PIQklQ@
ing the man himself did not ebjecf M
y = Labor leaders claimed they hal
taken Ito additional men from two
plants doing work for the Remington
Arms and Ammunition company; that
q pickets had succeeded in keeping so
4 men from work at the new plant OF
tho Remington concern; that 100 man
on the night shift at the Union Me-
tallic Cartridge company had gone
- on strike They estimated this fora-
noon that nearly 500 skilled nlachin-
lists were now on strike They reit-
Grated their statement that there
would be complete close down Of war
nunition factories by Saturday.
Disorder seemed imminent twice
u today. once at the new Remington
plant and once outside the works Of
contractor making machine tools
for the Remington company. Double
q team dirt wagons, driven two abreast
cleared the road in front of the
first named plant. The police ae-
cording to an official connected with
the contracting concern, dispersed
& strikers and sympathizers after they
made Recommendation for the bene-
TT Of the men who remained at work.
y Guards on Strike.
The labor leaders asserted that
twenty-five more guards at the Rem
a