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Corset Workers in Four Shops Follow Lead of
 Warner Strikers.
MADE DEMANDS
 THIS MORNING
Danbury Plant is Still Closed-SO. Norwalk
 Faces a Strike.

Four more corset factories, The La Resista, The Crown, The Birdseye-Somers and the Batcheller face strikes. Fol lowing the lead of the workers in the Warner Bros. shop, the help in these fog.r plants this morning presented to the off cials of their respective com panies demands practically the same as those for which the Warner workers are striking, namely: a 44 hour week, in crease of fifty per cent in wages, a closed shop and better working conditions.
 The committees of the Warner corset workers, the cutters, shippers and machinists, met again this morn ing with DeVer H. Warner and his foremen in the Seaside Institute and discussed the situation for two hours.
 The workers were accompanied by Elias Leberman, representative of the International Garment Workers and Ira N. Ornburn, secretary of the State Federation of Labor.
 The discussion turned principally the wage question and the reports of the subcommittee who had in vestigated the piecework schedules in the Warner factory yesterday af- ternoon.
 The work of these committees had not been finished but it developed that during the investigation of the scales a number of inconsistencies were discovered which were explain ed by the Warner people as simply a matter of bookkeeping. The work CTS said that whatever it was it tend ed to reduce the amount they found in their pay envelopes on pay day.
 It was decided that the sub-com- mittees continue their work this af- ternoon and report tomorrow morn ing to another meeting of the com- nittees. The workers said that all they could report was progress as nothing definite had so far been ac- complshed.
 George Hill, who has been deIegat- ed to speak for the Warner interests said there was nothing to report to this mornings proceedings and ob- jected to the meeting being called star chamber sessions. although he stated that he believed that nothing should be said about the meetings un- til after a settlement had been effect ed.
 MT. Ornburn said that the general situation only was discussed at the meeting and it looked as if each side was waiting for the other to show some signs of abandoning their claims.
 MT. Lieberman said that it may be taken for granted that there would be no deviation on the part of the work CTS from their claims for a 44-hour week and for a closed shop, that these claims would be insisted on to the last.
 The Machinists' delegation pre- sented their demands at the meeting for a 44-hour week, an increase of 5o per cent in their wages and a de- mand that only members of the Ma chinists' union be employed in the tool room. These claims will be ad- justed at the same time as the claims of the Corset workers.
 This afternoon the executive com- mittee will go to South Norwalk and investigate the situation there. De- mands will also be formulated and presented to the R. & G. Corset shop.
 In New Haven a committee is to- day Investigating the situation and demands similar to those made in Bridgeport will be presented to the manufacturers early next week.
 If these demands are not met a strike will be called in both cities There will be another mass meeting of all the corset workers of the city at Eagleg Hall tonight, when ad- drospoe will be made by speAkers in Tn Han po3fnh ana e3ayfeb