The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-16
BRITISH VETERAN
CONDEMNS STRIKE
OF WAR WORKERS
Harry J. Riley Making Visit
K to His Home Here After
Discharge From Army.
SERVED WITH BRITONS
IN EARLY CAMPAIGNS
Says Any Man Who Fo-
ments Trouble in Shops is
Hun or Pro German.

Yesterday afternoon Bridgeporters
were interested in little man, clean
cut and bronzed, who walked with
the aid of heavy stick but who had
the indelible stamp which army SER
vice leaves upon a man. He was
none other than "HelTs Fire Jimmy
Riley, D. C. M, late of the British
Army, who has just returned to
Bridgeport his home town after be-
ing discharged from the hospital
Private Harry Jarman Riley, when
the war broke out was a sailor on
board the S. S. Mongolia, and Whlle
in a British port August 5, 1914, he
Joined up with the Third Suffolk Reg
iment with which famous organiza-
ton he went through the heaviest
and darkest periods of the world CON
flict. His record in part covers the
first and second battles of Loos, said
to be one of the bloodiest fights IN
history, the battle of Albert, Arras,
LongevilIe, and the first and second
battle of Ypres.
Later he served with the first Bril-
fish tank ever in action at Thiepvale'
and while with the tank corps, was
badly gassed. This added to the
other wounds he received in earlier
engagements put him out of action
But his experience with the Hun was
not to end even there for although
his body is covered with scars he re-
ceiyed a. few more when the Boches
raided and bombed the hospital he
happened to be in. He was fortunate
in not getting done in" although
other wounded and sick, along with
nurses and doctors, were killed all
about him.
Riley, saved the life of his sergeant
under a CALLING fire at the battle of
Loos and for his utter contempt of
death was awarded the Distinguish
ed Conduct Medal, by King George,
who pinned the decoration on Riley's
pajama coat while he lay in a hos
pital bed.
While in his home town Riley will
do some missionary work for Vari-
Gus charitable organizations and will
also address the men employed in
the various munition shops as to what
they might expect if the Hun is not
beaten and beaten badly. He will also
tell of three and a half years expert
ence covering the period when the
hours were darkest for the Allies.
In speaking about the Boche, last
night Riley said, WAR to the knife
is the only way to deal with Ger
many, and the harder we give it tc
them the sooner we will get it through
their thick skulls and shrivelled
souls that there is still vestige OF
civilization left on earth"
Riley, has a long record Of won
derful work done in behalf of the
= Red Cross, Y. M. c. A, K. of c., Sal.
walton Army, and in fact every orga.
nization engaged in charitable wal
work.
In speaking about the threatened
strike in the munition shops Riley
became almost Infatuated with indig
nation and said to a group of dissat
fled machinists, you men are get
ting good wages, big wages, and be
lieve in workers getting all they ar
worth, but these are war times; mel
are fighting for one shilling a da;
in the British Army and one dollar
day in the American army. They ar
suffering, being shot at, dying
needs be, for your protection.
DO not let anyone make you dis
satisfied with your pay. Any fellov
who tries to interfere between work
ingmen and employer is a Hun or
pro-German. If you take my advic
put him out of business at once"