Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-23


 The negotiations opened yesterday between the Waterbury Farrel foun- dry and the machinists would have been resumed to-day but for the ab- sence of Secretary Fulton from town Upon his return the matter will be taken up. No bother is contemplated in adjusting the situation to the satls- faction of the machine shop owners and their employees, as no other branch 1n such concerns can be affected by sign ing the agreement. The main trouble, it is expected, wilD be with the manu- lecturers, and especially manufacture CTS of novelties, for these would have to readiust their whele scale of prices and system of running their factories. But. say the machiniStS, such em- blowers had plenty of notice to do this and if they are late they can only blame themselves.
 After the meeting of the manufac- turers yesterday afternoon at Hartford Colonel Albert l.. Pope communicated by telephone with the officials of the American Bicycle Go in New York: Last night he said the factory would shut down this morning for an lnden- mite period. A committee from the Hartford Typographical union con- ferred with Colonel Pope yesterday re- garding the printers at work in the printing department of the company Nothing was decided upon, but the men did not quit work. The printing department is located in the quarters formerly used by the advertising men and the furnishings are of quartered oak. It is the most palatial printing office in the country. From fifteen to forty men are employed there accord, ing to the amount of work to be done. Some very fine work is turned out, in- cluding colored catalogue work. The printers in the department have been agitating a nine-hour day for some time.
 At the Matthews & Willard factory yesterday morning there was short but effective strike It took place in the moulding department and had nothing to do with a short work day or wages. The character of help was the issue The moulders, it appeared, had been bothered with non English speaking helpers which caused them a great deal of bother, inasmuch as they could not speak freely to the men, and if they got angry with them the help would become cyclone of anger. Tuesday afternoon there was occasion to engage a helper. The moulders asked the foreman, whose name IS N. s. Flanagan, to engage a man they could speak to. He did not do so and the men struck. A truce was patched up that afternoon with the promise that the new man would be let go and an English speaking one engaged in his stead. This the foreman failed to do yesterday morning and the men struck. As they were passing out of the factory they met with Superinten- dent Stevens, land the matter was ex- plained to him with the result that the wishes of the men were carried out, not only with reference to the one man but with the other two or three of them Yesterday afternoon. the dis charged men presented themselves at the Maple street windows of the moulding department and threatened the men for having them discharged.
 Detroit, Michigan, May 23.-The To- cal plant of the American Car & Foun- dry company to-day acceded to the de mands of it's fifty-eight striking ma chinists and in addition instituted a fifty-four hour week for it's 5000 other employees.
 New Haven, May 23.-It is announc- ed this morning that the Garland Ma chine Gun company, employing ten ma chinists has signed the -nine-hour day agreement. and the striking employees have returned to work. The Reynolds bolt shop, which employs small num- Der of machinists will probably be shut down Saturday for an indefinite period. No other changes in the strike situation here have developed to-day.
 Hartford, May 23-Aside of the shutting down of the American Bicycle company's shop (Pope's branch) here this morning for an indefinite period, there is no change in the machinist strike situation. Everything is quiet