New Britain herald., 1916-02-21

strike that the men failing to find this
 promised increase in their envelopes
 last Wednesday thought the promise
 had not been kept.
 Keep Off Streets.
 The extreme cold weather kept the
 strikers from congregating on the
 srfeets for any length of time. Re-
 ports of various kinds were in circu-
 Iation and these kept the auth critics
 on the jump. The Italian portion of = the strikers were looking forward to
 the coming here of Joseph J. Ettor,
 an organizer of the Industrial Work
 CTS of the World, who was at South
 Barre Mass, yesterday. Whether he
 will be we'll received remains to be
 seen. Thus far the strikers have not
 taken kindly to outside interference
 or speakers. At one gathering of
 Italians yesterday an agitator from
 out of town tried to make an address.
 As soon as he began to warm up and
 advocate stern measures to secure concessions the crowd howled him down and finally forced him to leave
 on trolley car going south.
 Small Arms Obtained?
 Ettor was in Waterbury last Sep ts5nber during strikes there. He was arrested and a jail sentence was inn pending when he took an appeal, and later he was permitted to leave with the understanding that he would not return to Waterbury. Ettor got into trouble because of inf1ammatory re- marks made in a hall to which objec ton was offered by police officer sent to the meeting. Ettor had an al- h tercation and his arrest followed. The authorities are still making a quiet investigation of a story current yesterday that two cases of small arms had been shipped in here.
 Give Up Sunday Demands.
 The nationality meetings lasted un- til after 1 o'clock. The attendance jn the aggregate was placed at 1,500 At 1 the Italian meeting there were prob i ably 500 present. As a whole the l strikers decided to hold out for an 1 increase of five cents an hour, for the Saturday half holiday with pay, and a half days work when a shop shuts down unexpectedly in the middle l of the week for any cause. The de- ] mand for double time for Sundays and ! holidays was given up because it was 1 claThned that the company did not 1 work Sundays and had always granted l the holidays.
 Photographer Pursued.
 Before adjourning notice was given that the general committee would meet the company's@ officials at ? D. m. There were few incidents at the sevaral meetings. In one a news paper photographer attempted to take fashlght picture and he was hustled by several men near him and fn inns tn oot nj l the hall He disappeared quickly In the belief that he might be injured as he had heard @ number of men say l that they would not have outsiders at the meetings. At the SaraSfielu 1 hall meeting an attempt was made to take up a collection to give to l Joseph Grohol. the young man who Is in control of the strike situation 1 here, and who owns the building, but GrohoI refused to sanction any col lections. He said he was willing to let the strikers use the hall so long as they held quiet meetings
 GrohoI Still on Top.
 ,There was very little discussion of the strike among knots of men on the street. Several times individuals tried wto impress others with a statement that Grohol was not looking after the I strikers interests but these men were told to keep quiet Every indication during the forenoon was that Grohol | still had the larger port of the strik- CTS under his influence.
 Mayor Schumaker said today that l the situation was far better than he l had expected and he felt sure that | matters will be strengthened out with l out friction. He said that he had | 1heard some criticism over the hand | ling of a small fire last night which l burned out motorcycle and bicycle l slkp because all the firemen are under l kpoIice orders. He said that the fire Ymen reached the blaze just as quickly 1 as if they had been free, and they put 1 it out as quickly, if not quicker be- i cause of the extra responsibility thrust l upon them, saving the surrounding 1 | buildings, and keeping the blaze with n the one small structure. The mayor 1 felt that criticism was uncalled for. Looking for Nelson. Some of the strikers were looking l ] for man named Nelson who IS said l i to be an organizer or speaker for the | 1 Industrial Workers of the World, who 1 Was busted from a labor meeting at ! I Waterbury last night Nelson sent | word, it was claimed, that he would | come here and address the strikers. 1 \ NeIson's remarks were not liked by !! ! many in the audience at the Water 1 bury meeting and after an officer had l old him to shorten his speech a num- per of them hustled Nelson out of the l yo1ace. .. George Schneider, secretary of the l kOsborn S Cheeseman Co, said this l Y1oon that the demands of the men in | l his n1ant related to the handling of |