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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1926
Page
15
About 3000 to 4000 textile workers marched to Pierce Dye works in Passaic New Jersey for an orderly demonstration as they left. Strikers claimed a 25 percent wage cut and urged a wage increase for 4000 workers. Police supervised the event and no disturbance occurred.
An unusually small attendance marked the Brookfield town meeting on Saturday afternoon. Town clerk William Beehler was absent ill, Frederick H. Beers was chosen clerk and John S. Thornhim mod erator. First Selectman Beers expressed willingness to run the town and keep finances balanced on a 14 mill tax, the same as last year. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Ed Norris of New York, parishioners at the Congregational parsonage, while Knight, Route 4 mail carrier, is ill and Gerald Dean substitutes. Miss Inez Anderson of New York visited her parents on Sunday.
Dr. George Wood Anderson, leader of the embarks at the Chia tabernage, will speak before the Lions Club meeting this noon in Stratfleht. The gathering will be attended by two visiting members from the Waterbury Lions Club.
The New Canaan post office will open at 6 30 a m and close at 6 05 p m under federal orders to adjust schedules. Local activity includes Grange talks, a hot chicken supper by Acacia Chapter 90, and notices of community events. readers report various meetings, moves, and a trip to Pine Forest Inn.
Westport March 6 Special Miss Rose Podwol an 18 year old inmate of the Westport sanitarium was found unconscious and fatally injured on Greens Farms railroad tracks after fleeing a nurse. Coroner Phelan will examine the scene and take reports from Dr Slaughter and state police before an inquest. The girl from Brooklyn died at Norwalk hospital.
Miss Nichols rode a bus that broke down on the noon trip Saturday and the driver secured a replacement from C. Wells for the day. David Hays resigns as Men's Club president, to be succeeded by John Mills as vice president. Trinity Guild to meet, plans a box for Alaska. Farmers finish gathering dog. Rev George H Hilton spoke at Lenten services. Mr and Mrs David plan to move to Brook- Tanvn encition of Bridgeport. Walter Crosby quarantined with scarlet fever at home.
About 260 workers from the local thread mill gathered near the mill gate and marched to the town hall for a program of speeches and music marking the strike's first anniversary. Speakers included Patrick Me from New Haven and Joan Egan from Bridgeport, with Mary Kelleher Scranton and John McCarty speaking on the strike year. Company rep Don Curtin said the strike ended when the plant reopened and about 2,000 remain on the payroll.
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