_In a special dispatch to_ THE NEW YORK TIMES, _dated Bridgeport, Conn., July 14, appeared the following news of labor trouble in the American munitions factory:_ One hundred workmen, twenty guards, and the Bridgeport police reserves took a hand in a riot tonight at the new plant of the Remington Arms Company, where it is planned to make small arms for the Allies. The riot brings to fever heat the labor excitement of the last week, which yesterday caused the walkout of the structural ironworkers at the plant and today a walkout of the millwrights and the ironworkers on the new plant of the sister company, the Remington Union Metallic Cartridge Company. The three thousand workmen have been stirred into a great unrest in the last week by some unseen influence. Major Walter W. Penfield, U.S.A., retired, head of the arms plant, says pro-Germans are back of the strike. This the labor leaders deny. _On July 15 the spread of the strike was reported in a special dispatch from Bridgeport to_ THE NEW YORK TIMES: The strike at the giant new plant of the Remington Arms Company under construction to make arms for the Allies, as well as, it is supposed, for the United States Government, spread today from the proportions of a picayune family labor quarrel to an imminent industrial war which would paralyze Bridgeport, curtailing the shipment of arms and ammunition from this centre, and which threatens to spread to other cities in the United States, especially to those where munitions of war are being manufactured. _On July 20_ THE NEW YORK TIMES _published the demands of the workmen at the Remington Arms plant, as outlined by J.J. Keppler, vice-president of the Machinists' Union:_ Mr. Keppler was asked to tell concisely just what the unions wanted. "There are at present," he replied, "just three demands. If the strike goes further the demands will increase. The demands are: "1. Recognition of the millwrights as members of the metal trade unions and not of the carpenters', and fixing of the responsibility for the order some one gave for the millwrights to join the carpenters' union, an attempt on the part of the Remington or the Stewart people to dictate the international management of the unions. "2. A guarantee of a permanent eight-hour day in all plants in Bridgeport making war munitions. This carries with it a demand for a guarantee of a minimum wage and double pay for overtime. "3. That all men who go on strike will be taken back to work." In addition, of course, Mr. Johnston demands that Major Penfield retract his charge of German influence being back of the strike. _A check, if not a defeat, administered to the fomenters of the strike was reported to_ THE NEW YORK TIMES _in a Bridgeport dispatch dated July 20, as follows:_