New Britain herald., 1916-02-18
STATE CAVALRY MAY BE
 PRESSED INTO SERVICE
 IN STRIKE AT ANSONIA Troop A of New Haven and Troop B of Hart ford Ordered Fully Equipped for Duty
 by Adjutant General Cole MAYOR SCHUMACHER MAY ORDER SALOONS CLOSED AS PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE

CLOSED AS PRE
 1wenty Different Tongues or Dialects Z Spoken Among Discontented Work A CTS Who for Larger Part Are # Termed UnslilIed Labor-No One "a Hurt in Yesterdays Riot and 8 Property Damage Was Trifing. 3 Ansonia, Feb. 1S.-An appeal by the ga mayor for the aid of the state troops
 Bt Bto assist in preserving order, meet Kings of the striking employees of the & American Brass Co.,, at which it is 8understood committees were appoint
 e ed to present demands to the company,
 land emergency meetings of the officers 2of the company and city officials were @developments of the day in the strike @of unskilled 1aborers of the American #Brass Co. here which broke out yes & &terday in large proportions with start # ling suddenness, despite the fact that #the day before some 800 had quit in Zone of the cempanys mills.
 8 No statement was forthcoming from #the company's offices, and attempts to s get definite statement from the strik- . CTS as to their demands met with lit 8 tie success.
 8 Many Rumors Current. All sorts of rumors were current during the day, one of them to the eff feet that the strikers would attempt to get out about 125 strike breakers Eat work in the Farre1 Foundry, but #noon passed and except for small 8knots of men near the plant no @demonstration was made.
 Sheriff Philip Hugo arrived here &from New Haven about noon and later &eonferred with the company officials
 The situation, it was said, was now in
 his hands, but it is understood that he 1 & bought it advisable to have state 1
 troops ready to come to the city if 1
 necessary and that orders have been |
 gfven for troops A and B of New
 EIaven and Hartford respectively to | #hold themselves in readiness to, re- i, #spond to a call. It was understood | $here that no marching orders hal #been issued pending conference to l held this afternoon at Hartford l Governor Holcomb and Ad- iutant General George M. Cole. No Disorder Today. # Accofding to the compnay no de- &mands have yet been presented to #thern by the strikers. The latter, it is Understood take the attitude that if 8the response of the company to their
 1emands proves satisfactory, they are
 eady to return to work tomorrow. # While the mills of the company are &fdIe because of the walkout only about 1.-two thousand of the men out are on &strike, the others having quit as a &matter of personal safety when the &srtikers swept in force through ths @hops Some of those who attempted to disobey the order to leave were promptly convinced in some cases merely by gesture that they must &hgo with the crowd.
 No Disorder Today.
 M A cold rain which set in about
 noon today apparently kept many per <Smons off the streets and only normal &scrowds were seen about the center of & the city There was no disorder dur a ng the day.
 M The greater part of the throng @ seemed to view yesterdays rush
 through the wire and copper mills of
 the Ansonia Brass and Copper com-
 many, and the brass mill of the Coe # Brass company, as huge diversion # with it's humorous aspects in high relief. The strikers did no parading D his morning and congregating on the
 Arity's streets had no diSagreeable Creatures. No person was actually in
 Blurred in yesterdays rush and the #nroperty damage, sifted down to a
 Aefinite basis, was trif1ing, chiefly to # doors in the mills which the crowd & bore down with as much eagerness as 8 n football backfield shows in hitting
 Slhe line of it's opponents. Knots of
 strikers were in a happy mood, and Awhile their language was not 1ntell1- 8 gibie to many others the gesticula- & lions and roars of laughter seemed to N indicate that individuals were re- "A Jating their experiences. It is esti-
 mated that twenty different tongues # or dialects are spoken among the # gtrfkers who for the larger part are M ryhat is termed unskilled labor.
 M May Close Saloons.
 W Mayor Schumacher announced that &he would probably order the saloons
 closed later in the day as a precau- &ttonary measure. He had a confer
 Knee with the officers of the brass
 company and afterwards said that he
 xtlad asked High Sheriff Hugo of New
 Haven if he could have troop sent
 &bere not because the troop was 8 needed at this time but to have it in 8 reserve in case there was fight. He & Brought the troopers could reinforce $ his special officers and control any @ situation which might arise. Word & came here that message had been 4 sent to Captain Wolf of Troop A, to & warn his men to be ready in case # nraers were issued for strike duty. 
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