The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-29
SETTLING THE STRIKE

Vu~ HE STRIKE 6OOO American Graph 1 ophone Company has hardened into something that less a labor a strength a cornered contest in which nobody is having good me and Bridgeport is getting very much the worst of it
 The councils of the strikers divided There two factions which pulls against other There suppose that the internal councils the company in Bridgeport divided in such way that will be necessary for the directors themselves to intervene if wise and nte gent settlement is to be made.
 The Graphophone strike not in the beginning diff cult affair." It should have been adjusted in few hours and would have been with the application little plain and shirt sleeves diplomacy.
 This much the opinion striking as the view of well informed representatives of the company who seemed to have looked with doubt and perhaps with amazemen upon the methods of the companys negoator Ar Roberts.
 Roberts become, by process evolution proponent of the proposal plant American Graphophone Company out of Bridgeport and the struggle to be whether his view is to prevail the the Of old and conservative advisers who have been with the company in Bridgeport for years who that with the of reasonable concaon the labor difficulties could be settled in few hours not only settled but settled if the company desired by contract with the employees y of compensation and freedom strike could ed for considerable period of me from two to three years
 may prove that the policy removal has plunged the directors of the company into an nancpad difficulty the American Graphophone Company socaled DuPont organization it is in the control who entirely familiar with labor difficulties maintained broad attitude in the of la Dor disputes It is known that the DuPOns regarded by Federal Department of Labor among the informed and most liberal employers in this country
 Hence they know and the directors of the American Gaphophone Company know that labor troubles
 
 neither France the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, other, which there not large scale dspOns the industrial
 As far sighted business accustomed to anticipating events, they know that while strikes of America that they less difficult States than they anywhere else in the world and they doubtedy know that in Bridgeport labor disputes readily settled than strikes in most other places
 In Bridgeport there occasionally strikes but there seldom bad feeling There sabotage bomb throwing killings and no destruction of industrial property
 When the present strike began susceptible adjustment might have been prevented entirely resident authority of the company had been the difficulty with which he faced and reasonable diplomatic in dealing with the preliminary notice
 The American GraphophOne Company is institution of which Bridgeport is proud It institution which most of the time has obtained the loyal cooperation its employees and which under its present ownership has been profitable
 The Times sincerely hopes that Mayor Wilson does not conclude the difficulty when he tries to do today the directors will give the Bridgeport problem their personal at tenon substituting perhaps negotiations who have not become partisans particular policy who obliged defend policies unfortunately contrived and who will have but the sole object of establishing by conciaion good feeling be- tween great industry and it's thousands of workers.
 The Times refuses to believe that the big finally control the affairs of the American Graphophone Company will willingly disturb millions dollars the of labor trouble which be settled jig and ceases to be affair of personal prestige