New Britain herald., 1916-02-21
ANSONIA STRIKERS
 DEFY l. w. W. ME.
No Outside Interference Wanted EttOr Will Be MObbed
DEMANDS BEING PREPARE
Linguist Maintains Upper Hand Situation-Confercncc With Maj facturcrs This Aftcrnoon-No $ tIcnent Yet in Sight.

tlcnent Yet in Sight.
 Ansonia, Feb. 21.-The geneI committee of the strikers of the Al erican Brass Co.,, went into sessiE this afternoon to prepare demands A increases in wages and other conc4 sions. As the session promised to somewhat protracted it was hard thought likely that the conference w 4 the committee of the company woI be held until late afternoon. It VI stated by members of the committ| which numbers thirty three, that
 Saturday the conference saw the pr} entation of requests for incread wages. The committee will now p1 pare demands. It was further staq that even if pay envelopes distribuq on Wednesday should contain the cents increase promised last NoyemH the men will not return to work unlf they are given the five cents an ho increase with the other concessions'
 Joseph Grohol who has handled t situation thus far with tact said Il afternoon that the strikers do D want any outsiders to interfere in q negotiations between the men and | company. He added: "If Ettor al his crowd comes here they will n leave with shirts on their backs. also said that he felt that the meI bers of the committee had made their mind to make demands.
 He said that some of them ''h blood in their eye" When the ca ference is over MT. Brown of the cor pany will be notified and tin for a conference arranged.
 A number of men have come he from outside the city and are taki every opportunity to harangue q strikers in behalf of an eight ho day with ten hours pay in addition the five cents an hour increase but many instances the auditors hal stopped the speaker and told hi that they were not seeking the eig hour day but were after a five ceH an hour increase for ten hour dd
 Orator Arrested.
 A sidewalk orator who gave Il name of M Bell and who had bed talking up and down Main street dll SlSn IlOuI WclS cil C9NCNA GU M 2:30 by policeman Mahoney chars@ with breach of the peace. He wI locked up in the police station a bonds for his liberty pending he'd ing were placed at $1,000 It VI said that Bell is the man whom GrI hol fired off the platform at Thuil day nights meeting in Sarsfield had He was said by socialists not to of their number although numb5 of them carried lunch into him the station after his arrest.
 The racial characteristics the strike of two thousand ua skilled Iaborers of the Ame4 can Brass company in its local bras3 cooper and wire mills, was strikingb brought out today when the body strikers divided themselves into nA tionality meetings to discuss the r5 suits of the conference on Saturd% of the general strike committee wiz a committee of the company's ci ficials. The committee representf} eight different nationalities, alth0uRI the number of dialects spoken by tl5 strikers has been placed at scor1 This meant eight separate meeting this forenoon, and at each the prSH ceedings were very orderly and wes The three commIttef men representing each nationally seemed to have their own particuls& phase of the negotiations well hand. Under the plan proposed general meeting of the strikers WE be held later in the day.
 C.sII M
 The situation continues to be tens Fifty girls employed by the Osput and Chesseman company teAtl corcarn left their work soon after th n1ant opened, and the report was ths to enforce certain demands the ,,ainder of hte working force Woul ,,,i+ a+ noon or tonight. There wer wo hundred employees in this plaF who voted yesterday to demand
 ,,o oe increase of ten per cent or mor md the fifty girls appeared to haN Q ken the initiative in trying to secur he concessions. Reports spfea a apidly that other strikes in local in Iustries are impending. Wage inl reases were expected to be asked u he Ansonia Manufacturing companf makers of brass novelties. and of ID ,evmour Mfg. Co, and H. Mathews Co.,. in the neighborin k own of Seymour, the former concer ,eing makers of brass and silver good nd the latter of stoves and bicycle
 No Tickets in Evidence.
 Although the number of person at the gates of th ,merican Brass campany's mills herA -as considerable at opening time. te ay, there was no disorder. It WI ot evident that the strikers had esM 3 ablished pickets. The company M ficials had let it be known tha ,ork would not be resumed for sev# ral days and the strikers apparentl bought that pickets were unneces lry. On Wednesday the strikers an II others who were forced into idle
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