The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-18


That 1000 Laborers, Out
on Strike, May Resort To
Violence and Troop A is
Notified To Be Ready For
Duty.
High School Entertainment,
Scheduled For Tonight, Is
Postponed BY Superin-
tendent Who Doesn t
Wants Students on Streets
After Dark.
Hartford, Conn.,, Feb. 1S-
Captain j. III. X. Davis, of Troop
b, 5th militia cavalry, issued
orders to his command at noon
today to assemble at it's arTmOPy
at 2 o'clock fully equipped for
duty. This action was taken
after Captain Davis had been
informed that his command
might be called at any time for
strike duty in Ansonia.
General George M. Cole said
Governor ,HoIcomb would come
to Hartford for a conference
with him this afternoon.
Ansonia, Conn, Feb. 18-i
The strike situation here today
was very tense, although OUT
wardly the 4,5OO employees of
theA American Brass Company
in its local branches were MAX
ing the days ilay-off a holiday.
The greater part Of the
throng seemed to view yester-
days rush through the wire
and copper mills of the An
sonia Brass & Copper Company
and the Brass mill of the Coe-
Brass Company, as a huge di-
version with its humorous as
poets in high relief.
The strikers did no parading
=
this morning and congregating
on the city's streets had no dis
agreeable features.
No person was actually injured in
yesterdays rush and the property
damage, sifted down to a definite ba- &
sis, was trifling, chiefly to doors in
the mills which the crowd bore down
with as much eagerneSs as a, football
backfield shows in hitting the line OF
its opponents. Knots of strikers were
in happy mood and while their lam I
guage was not Ineligible to many /
others the gesticuIations and roars Of /
laughter seemed to indicate that in /
dividuals were relating their expert /
ences. It is estimated that twenty
different tongues or dialects are
spoken among the strikers who for
the larger part are what is termed
unskiIIed labor.
Mayor Schumacher said he would
probably order saloons hpo crosse Uua
til further notice as a precauttonarX
measure. He had a conference with
the officers of the brass company and
afterwards said that he had asked
High Sheriff Hugo, of New Haven If
he could have Troop A sent here, not
because the troop was needed at this
time but to have it in reserve in case
there was a. fight. He thought the
troopers could reinforce his special
Officers and control any situation
which might arise.
Word came here that a message
had been sent to Captain Wolf, OF
Troop A, to warn his men to be ready
in case orders were issued for strike
duty Adjutant General George NJ.
Cole, who gave q. personal message to
Captain Wolf. says that no orders have
been issued for the cavalry. At the
arnory it was stated that no orders
had been received to march, but NJ aY-
preston at noon that the troop would 4
be here later in the day.
The strikers held mass meetings
during the morning when committees
were named to present demands to
the mill officials. The demands were
not all the same and it was evident
that many of the strikers had not
decided just what they wanted.
The chief concern is felt by the
police over the demand of a, few
strikers that an effort be made to call
out or take out, 125 men employed
by the Farrell Foundry since the
mou1ders' strike there last summer.
These men are housed and fed on
the premises The foundry is also
guarded and it is understood that the
crowd, if it attempted to make a rush
there would meet with resistance.
The High School GIee club was to
have given a concert tonight but Rich
ard Tobin, the school superintendent,
POSTPONED the affair as he did not
think it best to have the students
on the streets tonight