The examiner. (Hartford, Conn.) 1881-188?, 1886-08-28
BIRMINGHAM.

The cigar makers and printers are to hold
their union picnic at Savin Rock, September
9th. No doubt there will be large repre-
| sentation of the crafts from Ansonia and
Birmingham.
Patrick Cannon, one of the strikers, has
lost child about one year old, and at this
writing another is not expected to live.
| This is a great misfortune, financially as
we'll as parental, and something should be
done by sympathizng friends to in some
way lessen the measure of his distress.
1t is becoming evident that the Labor or
ganization will enter into active politics in
| the coming campaign. The action of the
various organizations in New Haven prom
ises to make it lively in the second congress
sional district, and the call of the Labor
League of Hartford for State convention
is evil omen to some of our politicians.
The Derby Times says that if the Demo
cracy of Derby will nominate good man
for first selectman they can elect him, and
is confident that E. w. Webster is the man.
Who can beat Robert o. Gates Well,
Webster is and has always been strict
party man, and will poll all of his party
votes. But that is not enough. There is
one thing the Democrats of Derby must do
if they wish to be successful-and that is
to nominate James Sweeney for selectman;
otherwise they invite defeat. Sweeney
pulled through last fall when his party
wished to see him defeated; but the votes
of the K. of L. landed him safely. This
same vote will be needed this fall, and no
nomination for Sweeney means Republi-
can victory. Our Democratic friends can
cut this out and paste it in their hats for
future reference.
About two weeks ago the employees of Os-
NJ taH q
tition asking for weekly payments, setting
forth as re ason that under the present
system they were at the mercy and at the
same time under obligations to the store
keepers. That their wages being small it
was impossible for them to make both ends
meet. The firm replied that for thirty
years they had paid as they saw fit and did
not propose to be dictated to by any one.
This reply to men who are supposed to be
possessed of some of the feelings of man
hood is a bitter pill to swallow, yet public
opinion" that tickle dame, will condemn a
strike should it occur. The petitioners,
however, were granted ono concession they
did not ask for-eight hours work with a
corresponding reduction of wages.
One of the prominent stockholders of the
Derby Silver company was very firm in up
holding the position of the company in their
dealings with the strikers last fall and win
ter. In another factory, in which he is
more largely interested, employment is
given to some of @e strikers as they may
apply for work. Another prominent stock
holder, who was equally firm in the strike,
rents tenements to them and gets his pay as
best he can. Yet the strikers are as severe
in their denunciations of the Silver company,
and if they could have their wishes fulfilled
and the company go down it would effect
these two of their benefactors more than
any other.-ANsoNIA SENTINEL.
This is the old way of looking at things,
and as the Sentinel yet burrows away among
the fossils, doubtless it believes this anti
quated bosh as Baconian philosophy. But
thinking people will not be deceived by it.
We opine that if these "benefactors" of the
Sentinel were not pretty tolerably sure of
getting more than they give out of their
great kindness to the strikers" they would
be equally firm" in denying them the OPP
portunity Of work or shelter. The bene-
faction is generally ON the other side,
although perhaps equally unintentional.