The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-07-28
TO TRY A NEW RUSE.
Shanty Bosses Deter
mined to Sell s'the
Coda" Beer.
Mr.. TATE'S WORK CONTINUES.
Will Show Abuses of Ital-
ian Laborers-Col. Hop
kins Favored.
MR.. TATE'S WORK CONTINUES

Clinton, July 27.-Despairing of sue
cess in their efforts to secure from the
authorities promises that they vii,
hereafter be upmolested in the sale of
beer, the shanty bosses have conceived
new remedy for the old trouble.
They contemplate applying to the Sc
lectmen for club licenses. With a club
license in his pocket, for which he will
have paid a merely nominal sum, the
shanty boss win be in a position to
make all his laborerN members, and can
pursue his Easy course of selling5 cents
worth 81 beer for Z cents, without fear
of the police.
The plan has proceeded so far that
within few days, it is understood,
some of the contractors will consult
counsel to see in what manner they
may best approach the selectmen.
The club license is not unknown in
Clinton. Each of the influential Ger
man societies, as the Turn Verein and
the Schiller Society, has such a license.
But these organizations are clubs in
the sense of the word. There is little
or no abuse of the privilege thus ac-
corded
The situation will be far different in
the case of the contractors and shanty
bosses, who, under the protection of
names more or less well known, want a
club license as a side issue to their
coamissaries, in order to keep those
interesting institutions so that they will
net a maximum profit.
The contractors are not without
friends among the influential men of
the town. They have more or less trade
to bestow, and through the Metropoli-
tan water board and its employees they
have made alliances more or less pow
erful.
1t may be that the first application,
If the plan is not abandoned in the face
of the opposition that is sure to come
when this news is published, will be
made by citizens in the interest of one
of the shanty bosses under Moulton &
O'Mahoney Moulton & O'Mahoney en-
ploy more men than any other con-
tractor on the reservoir is now employ
ing. Pasquale Pietro, the alleged pro-
prietor of the shanty in which some
thing like a hundred of Moulton &
O'Mahoneys men are boarded, is one of
the severest sufferers by the raid re-
Gently made by Chief Bates men.
These contractors employ in the
neighborl1ood of 400 men, who represent
quite a trade in beer, which is forfeited
if some way to beat out the police is
The abuse of labor on the metropoli-
tan work is one of the leading Nopics of
conversation in this town. Along this
line the report of Thomas Dawson Tate,
soon to be made to the Clinton Business
Mems Association. is awaited with in
terest.
Mr.. Tate is accommodating an array of
facts bearing on the subject, that are
said to be much more extensive than
any yet presented.
1t is understood that these facts will
show grave violation of the law under
which the reservoir work is being done,
violations, some of them, that can only
be attributed to the wllfulness or neg
hgence of the metropolitan water
board.
In his report Mr.. Tate, it is under
stood, will take the attitude that the
members of the board, because of their
individual indiosyncracies, faults and
frailties, are principally responsible for
the abuses that exist. Whether these
abuses are the failure to give the pref
erence to citizens Of the commonwealth
when the contractors fill their shan
ties with alien laborers, the abuse of
the nine-hour law, the violation Of the
spirit of the law relating to the weekly