New Britain herald., 1918-09-16
BRIDGEPORT STRIKERS
 WILL RETURN TO WORK
Tell President Their Case Has Been Presented in
 False COlOrs.

Bridgeport Sept. 16.-Reaffirming
 their loyalty to the government, the
 striking machinists and toolmakers
 President Wilson's order that they re-
 turn to work, promising to return at
 once and do their part in keeping up
 the flow of munitions. They told the their grievances in an orderly manner
 with the Taft Walsh war labor board and asked his influence to get them an early hearing.
 ''To the great cause of keeping up the flow of munitions to which you have dedicated yourself and the pres ent administration, the machinists here are, we hope, equally ededicated. We loyalty accept your command that we return to the working conditions which We left" the message reads, "and we shall proceed as you advise us, to re-appeal our case to the established government tribunals, leaving the event in your hands as chief magis- trate of our mighty nation.
 'In thus going back to work, may we express the hope that we have no, been sufficiently misrepresented in Washington to cause you for a mo- ment to doubt our loyalty to the cause of this righteous war or to our coun- try. There were things known to all in Bridgeport who had eyes to see and hearts to understand which failed ut terly of transmission to the paper case created here for the consideration of the national war labor. board section, so that in the end the machinists of this place were sacrificed to picture painted in false colors by the employ CTS and adopted by Mr Otto M. EidIitz in deciding, in Washington, our fate, after q year of fruitless appeals for plain justice and terms of employment which would mean security and sta bility for our families instead of end less jockeying by our employers
 The letter then goes on to say that while they have no further right to discuss the ~past issue, they ask the ance of the president, some of the in cidents of the struggle and of the hearings held before the award was made.
 The strike was definitely ended when men independently went into the factories this morning by the hundred. The action of the mass meeting completed the task of calling off the trouble in obedience to the order of President Wilson. At the mass meeting a letter from President l Wm. H. Jonston of the international union, was also read after |, the letter of President Wilson, which ! for the first time came formally be- ] fore the strikers
 The manufacturers took back all l their former employees. The main 1 task of the nlachinists was to repair l ma chimes which had broken down 1 during the period of the strike.
 Besides the drafting of the letter to l President Wilson the strike committee l Justice Geo. Wheeler of the supreme l court of errors, at a public meeting 1 in Beardsley park yesterday, in which | the strikers were sharply condemned. The committee prepared a reply to 1 Justice Wheeler's speech and pro- posed a joint debate on the charges he had made, suggesting that this debate be from the Beardsley park platform.
 Samuel Lavit, business agent of the union, stated again that an effort will be made to form a branch of the American labor party in opposition to the American FederatA of Labor, which Lavit, in a statementssaid had ] fallen down in this strike as regards l the interests of organized labor