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

WATERBURY.
| One of the CROSSES" in the Lane Manu-
featuring company recently has fallen to the
dodge of cutting down prices He should
remember that he himself was once, some
years since, subjected to the same axe, and
he seems now to have forgotten his past
J experience.
The horse railroad is now in process of
completion, as rails were laid in West Main
street Tuesday. In about one hundred
years the corner stone of the hospital will
be laid, if the board of directors are as en-
ergetic as at present. Meanwhile poor hu-
manity must get sick and get we'll without
the healing benefit of this much needed
institution.
The political pot is simmering, and the
chieftains are sharpening their hatchets.
In the Republican race it looks as If Private
Louns bury was ahead for the governorship,
and in the Democratic the course lies be-
tween George G. Sumner and Edward S.
Cleveland, of Hartford, and Luzon B. Nor
ris, of New Haven. Edward W. Seymour
prefers to remain in Congress, and as Cleve-
land is popular with the Labor element he
will probably carry off the prize, and cer-
tainlg if Bulkely of Hartford succeeds in
edging himself in for the opposing nomina-
ton.
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early closing, are to be congratulated. The
contest has been a long one, and its result
shows that in just and a humane cause
persistency will win. To the credit of their
employees, be it said, that this desirable re-
suit was acquiesced in long ago by all but
three dealers, and these three alone made
the plan fail. Last Friday the clerks made
a public appeal in the columns of the daily
press, urging people to confne their evening
trading to certain evenings in the week.
The appeal had it's rightful and proper
effect. Saturday night the clerks held
meeting, at which it was announced that
the dealers who had heretofore refused to
listen to their request were now willing to
The peach crop was never so plentiful as
at present, and Waterbury alone seems
destined to pay high prices, among all the
cities of the state. The reason has finally
been found by THE EXAMINER man. Our
Italian friends, Banby brothers, have Sc
cured monopoly for the trade apparently,
and when these Italians sell at low figures
to grocers and others, it is with the under
standing that high prices to the public shall
be kept up These Italians are possessed of
Yankee shrewdness. Thus, while the
best peaches sell in New York at sixty and
seventy cents basket, it takes a two-dollar
bill to buy one here, and single peaches are
sold at five cents a piece, or you can go
without. This monopoly from sunny Italy
is beginning to be understood, and Water
bury must soon get the advantage of low
prices on the current peach crop, or The
EXAMINER man will say just what he thinks
of Italian fruiterers as well as of Chinese
lauudries.
The Ladies Relief corps is sort of fe-
male adjunct to the Grand Army of the
Republic. 1t is a secret society, and they
have all the red tape, black balls, ETC.,
which 1--WE men" indulge in. Sometimes
their animosities are more intense and based
on less grounds than is the case with socie-
ties exclusively masculine. Some weeks
since Mrs. Chimansky, the wife of a Polish
Jew, who has resided in Waterbury twenty
years past, and is the mother of six children,
found herself, as the wife of a war veteran,
black balled, because of her nationality.
Her husband was good enough to fight the
battles of the Union, but his patriotism did
not seem to avail him much. Himself a
hard working and industrious mechanic, he
was likewise brave soldier. lie spent his
time of service at the front, and we have
yet to learn of his absence on furlough or
in hospitals. The leader of the opposition
| to Mrs Chimansky and her friends seems to
have been Mrs. D. Keifer and her friends.
! Certainly these ladies ought to reconsider
their action, especially if their objection to
thu candidate is so frivolous and aristocratic
as represented.
THE EXAMINER man has repeatedly sug-
gested that the real tyranny which capital
exercises over labor comes not directly
from the capitalist himself, but his bench
men, middlemen and bosses. An example
/ of this was forcibly illustrated last week at
the Steele & Johnson Manufacturing Co.
Twelve girls employed in the lower room
left the employ of the company for the fol-
lowing reason. The wages in this depart
ment had always been on piece work at the
rate of a cent and a half per gross, and,
by hard work and industry, a girl might
earn 81 or 81. 10 per day at these figures.
The prices were cut down to seven-eights
of a cent. per gross, sum so low that the
most skillful and industrious girl could only
; earn 60, 70, or so cents per day. AS
, consequence, the young women in question
were obliged to quit work in the room in
which they were employed. The upper
, room is "bossed" by one, Richard w. LIE
, Roy, and application was at once made to
. him to supply temporarily from some of the
girls in his employ the places made vacant.
He at once started to comply, and notified
one of his hands to assume the work. The
} young lady declined to accept, and told
him that she could not earn her living at
, the reduced rates. At once, Leroy told
{ her in language more forcible than polite
to leave. ''Y ou are," he said, 81 see one
/ of those Knights of Labor, and you can get
out at once" His conduct was so coarse
that the young lady left at once, not even
= having chance to put on her collar which
, lay by her work bench. Leroy should
, have remembered, at the moment he in
: suited her, that she was a woman, and
2 that as such, her sex the same his
= mother, his wife or his sister, and emit
$ tied to respect from real manhood. When
the matter of these girls was called to the
A attention of Supt. Mitchell, he passed it
S off, with lordly wave of his hand, saying
{ "Well, they are foolish, it is a question of
l work or no work with them. IL they work,
they must do so at our prices" This is the
7 uncle of our present Democratic Congress
. man, who was elected by the votes of la
boring men in the Naugatuck valley. 1t is
worth something to know occasionally who
one deals with.