Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-10
RUMORS PLENTY.
Strike Situation is no Nearer
 Settlement Than It Was.
TICKETS DOUBLED TO-DAY.

Have Become D1SguSleQ anu Lett
 the City-Shops Have Again Given
 Notice that They Will Resume Work
 With Non-union Help-Thus Far,
 However, Only a Very Few Have
 Stopped Of at Waterbury.
 The fourth week of the contention between labor and capital begun this morning It dawned upon failure Of two concerns to get their plants going. It showed both employers and their machinists in a different mood, an un- pleasant feeling. Disappointment up- on one side at failure to procure men for their works after leaving the 1m- pression they were determined they would have them, and on the other side, a feeling that the powers that be are against them and with the em- ployers. If this feeling has any foun- dation it is unfair; in any event it is bad.
 No actual change despite the many attempts to make one, sums up the situation in a few words. No profitable results have acrued from the endea- yors of the employers to get their ma chinery started; only a change in tem- perament is apparent on both sides.
 It may be said that the real strike did not begin until last Wednesday when two or three concerns gave no- tice that they would start up with all the help they could get Thursday morning. The men said the giving of such a notice was considerate on the part of the employers and the men T,nr, for. f fifcation to prepare for actual war and the men lost no time in preparing Where there had been no picket some were posted. where there had been few they were doubled Not a man was engaged and the factories did not resume work Police were in evidence but they did not interfere with the pickets-
 Saturday evening a report went out that the Farrell foundry would start up this morning with sixty non-union men from out of town. They would have to come from elsewhere because there are not sixty non-union men out of work in this town.
 It was also reported that the E. J. Manyille Machine company would re- sume operations with a number of non-union men. This meant doubling the pickets at these factories and this nothing long before the whistle an- nounced the beginning of another work day the men were at their posts.
 One man, not a stranger here show ed up for work eHe has been living dns Thomaston of late and by trade is a pattern maker. This mans presence resulted in some fun. There was con siderable maneuvering on bicycles game of tag with the pickets and the stranger was induced to forego his in tentions of taking the place of one man at all events. Now the men say that the employing of this man shows to what desperate straits the employ CTS are reduced and nothing but simple absence of information to tackle the situation and bring about an amicable, settlement keeps the strike going This man, they say would be of no use to the concern that employed him.. He is a pattern maker and ignorant Of the machinists' craft. He. was promised $2 a day, which is less than any of the other men were paid, but the intrigue of the incident more than anything else prompted the man to ac- cept the offer. His tool bag was taken into the factory by Foreman Linen to take attention away from the man but the pickets got his eye and the rest was easy.
 The report that the Farrel foundry would resume work with sixty non- union men from out of town was con- tradicted by results to-day. Instead of men going back to work, one man, in fact did leave. Whether or not he was prompted to this action by his late fellow workers is not known.
 Therefore, the results of last week, and the results of to-day have proved what the men said at the outset that competent machinists could not be procured to fill their places.
 Roll call this morning at head quarters showed that not a man, ex- cepting- the two or three men who out sOr have left the city to get work elsewhere. In all about sixty men have left town. Ten left last Friday together having procured employment in Yonkers, N. I. The majority have gone to New York and are earning larger wages than they had earned here. Many are in Hartford and few in New Haven.
 The men are confident that the end Is approaching, and that it will be satisfactory to both sides. The Ma tional' Metal Trades association which holds an important meeting tomorrow ID New 1OTk auQ IEOIQ WHICH great deal is expected, is torn with dissen- sions The small manufacturers in this organization wish to be absolved from their agreement and the big ones apparently will not release them. The little ones claim that unless the strike is ended soon their end will occur first. So say the dispatches; so said that friend of labor, the New York Sun Saturday and yesterday.
 The results of the day the men claim have been satisfactory to them.
 Half a dozen of the men left town today. Some of them have gone to Pittsield, Mass. There is no strike in that place.
 There are some people who are under the impression that the strike has St the city to some expense in giving ad- dftional protection to the factories which have been affected by it. It so happens, however, that the payrolls do not show any additional expense on ,his account. Extra policemen are drawn off from other beats each morn mg. noon and evening for an hour or so and placed around the various fac tories.
 The strike of the holders of the Mat 4hoxrs &r Willard factory may ha sof-