Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-05-09
ADDRESSES ON THE GREEN.

meeting to be held on the green. The committee waited on John Moriarty of the Waterbury Furniture Go and asked if he could spare the time to say a few words to the mayor in their behalf at the proposed public meeting. MT Moriarty said he did not see how he could refuse to comply with such request, and consented to ad- dress the meeting.
 The statement published in the DEMO GRAF last night in reference to the meeting of yesterday was put in the mildest man. ner possible, although some people who did not happen to be present appear to know much more about it than those who listened to the mems remarks. The diff ferent contractors have been seen and given a hearing in the columns of the Republican, but an utter contempt IS shown for whatever opinions the aggrieved might have to express. I:
 Michael Lane of the committee who has lived in Waterbury for forty-nine years, said this morning:
 ''We do not wish to be looked upon as lawless mob. We have a grievance and in giving expression to it we do not think we are exceeding our right The city fathers may think themselves wise in per mitting all this money to pass into the hands of non residents, but if the worst comes the town will be compelled to SUD- port our families, all of which will entail an additional expense; while if we could get chance to earn little of the money that is being paid out by the city for pub lie improvements we would be able to SUD- port our families out of it. We all may not be paying a direct tax, but are paying it indirectly in rents, and if these rents are not paid, the direct taxpayers suffer. There are quite a good many people around town who have a few tenants liv- ing in their houses and the only way they have of meeting their taxes and the inter- est on the mortgage on these houses is by | the rent they receive from such people as have not homes of their own. If the tenant cannon find employment he cannot meet his rent Will some economist then tell how the landlord can manage to meet his obligations to the city under these conditions? The men who are talk | ing about what an idle man can do are | people who never knew the want of dol lar and never were forced to look for a | chance to earn one"
 In reference to the hiring of outside help by Blakeslee & Sons of New Haven, Superintendent Bradley made the follow ing statement this morning: ''They brought into the city twenty-five Italians, whom they have always used on such jobs, as they understand the business. They put these to work besides some thirty Wa terbury men. As soon as the lower part of the road is strengthened out they will employ about one hundred more home men,"
 John w. Gaffney said that owing to delay in receiving special castings he had been able Ito employ only eighty men, not over twenty per cent of whom were Italians, and all were residents of the town. He said that he hoped to soon have work for from 15O to 200 men.
 Mayor Kilduff was interviewed as to what he was going to do in regard to the movement He was reticent in the mat ter. While he was talking to the reporter a committee of three filed into the mayors office and said they represented the un- employed. They wished to stop the bringing in of outside help, they said, when taxpayers were walking around the streets with no work and with families starving, Mayor Kilduff told them the city employed no out of town help, and if there was work they should have it. He was then invited to be present on the green at the open meeting.
 A committee of five, Bernard Coyle foreman, promptly at two o'clock went on to the band stand. John Moriarty was made chairman. The chairman and con- mittee consulted for a few moments to see if 1t would not be better to adjourn until the movement had taken more definite form. MT Moriarty urged the committee to postpone the meet ing and secure a committee of ten who would write out their grievances and pre- sent them to Mayor Kilduff. MT Moriarty then stepped to the front. Around the stand was congregated nearly 1000 specta- tors. He spoke follows: "Gentle- men, I have been requested by
 
 the unemployed, to come hear to- day to say something in regard to the condition of the people of our city who are in want. It seems to me this matter ought to go through proper channels. You ought to appoint an intelligent body of men to wait on the mayor, who will receive you courteously The talk of quarrels at these gatherings is without foundation. We can meet peaceably and lawfully and in legal manner present grievances. We should take some definite line of policy, | should pursue something tangible. Pre- sent grievances to the mayor. who will | bring them before the city officials. It | has been said that the business men are 1 adverse to this movement, that they | are lacking In sympathy for | the unemployed. Let no such feeling go | abroad. The business men have nothing l but generous feelings for the bread win l ners. They are in perfect sympathy with | anything favoring the unemployed. AS | soon as I heard this report I immediately | accepted the offer of the committee | to address you It seems to me then that the proper course to pursue would be to appoint committee to wait on the mayor and have him come here and explain your grievances. It would be an extraordinary thing if, knowing the fnan- cial panic is all over the country, we did not experience it, and feel this awful calamity. It is a great surprise to have been able to stand it. But the solidity of our institutions and the taxpayers free hand are on the surface. The business men feel keenly this struggle. Your griev- ances are theirs. You are not touched that they are not"
 At this point voice from the crowd shouted "Hold," and Kevin Drury was seen pushing h1s way through the crowd. He went on to the platform and despite the protests of the committee and the chairman branched off into a speech in which Coxey, the A. P. A. and taxpayers were generously mixed.
 After he concluded Chairman Moriarty called for names for a committee and the following were announced: Michael Ney, Bernard Coyle, Charles Commerford, M. J. B1zezinski, Joseph Corr, John Finnan and Kevin Drury. The meeting then adjourned
 The committee waited on Mayor Xiii duff, MT Commerford acted as spokesman. He asked that the contractors on city work be compelled to employ residents of Waterbury as provided in their contracts. The committee was courteously received and Mayor Kilduf assured them that he would do all in his power to make the con- tractors act in accordance with the agree ment into which they had entered.
 Fifty-two New Women Doctors.
 PHILADELPHIA, May 9.-The forty third annual commencement of the Woman's Medical college of this state was held in