TROUBLE IN AMERICA.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 5

TROUBLE IN AMERICA.

STRIKES AT MUNITIONS WORKS.

CONTRACTS SERIOUSLY

THREATENED

GERMAN INFLUENCES AT WORK,

New York, July 19

Strikes at the Remington arms and cartridge factories at Bridgeport, employing 12,000 hands, began to-day, involving 12 additional factories engaged in sub-contracts.

Agitators are proceeding to Newhaven to bring out the Winchester Company's employees.. The same agitators have been active in New England, causing disputes wherever munitions were manufactured. The universal strikes will disastrously affect ammunition contracts, and are specially seVicus at Bridgeport, which ia the leading ammunition centre. The labour leaders declare that they are merely using the golden opportunity to obtain an eight-hour day and have their wages increased. The employers insist that secro' agencies are responsible. Mr Samuel Gompers, president of tho American Federation of Labour, i'charges German agitators with stirring vp1 trouble, and asserts that they attempted to bribe the, Bridgeport labour leaders. •

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