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Show uu THOUSANDS TO Strikers at Bridgeport, Conn., Have Adjusted Their Differences. Bridgeport, Conn., Aug. 30. Many hundreds of factory workers, who had been on strike recently, returned to their accustomed tasks today, their differences with employers over hours and compensation having been adjusted In nearlv everv instance the workers have entered upon tho 8-hour schedule, without a reduction In wage. Tho largest delegation of returning employes was that of upwards up-wards of 800 girls at the Crown and the Georgo C. Batchellor Corset companies. At a meeting of employes of the Salts Textile company, where 1500 are out and the plant is closed, for two weeks, announcement was made today that work for 150 weavers and slashers can be obtained elsewhere. No one signified a willingness to leave the city The strikers are confident con-fident of winning a shorter work day and changes in the shop system. A conference will begin today to discuss the question of ordering n general strike against the Remington Arms and Ammunition company, because be-cause of alleged discrimination against workers in one trade and tho discharge of four men who served on a shop committee While ihe conference will deal specifically spe-cifically with the alleged grievances at the Remington plant, plans for the campaigns for an eight-hour day to bo opened in Now Haven this week, and later at Waterbury, and Hartford, also will be considered. The alleged grievances at tho Remington Rem-ington plant relate to the polishers who claim they were promised an advance ad-vance in wages, but that when the eight-hour schedule was adopted their wages were decreased. The number of plants at which thero are strikes today, number thirteen. |