Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-08

"Sie Ilecteu Last EVeDlnS Officers of
 the Adjusters' Union, and Today
 They Were Laid Of-One Report
 Has It That Thirty-five Men Were
 Laid Off.
 The Adjusters' union is again in trouble With the Waterbury Clock Co, or so at least two of the officers of mat union informed Democrat re- porter this morning. It will be re- membered that just about one year ago the adjusters in the Clock Co had some trouble in regard to work or wages, and as consequence there was miniature strike in that depart ment in the Elm street factory. Mat ters were arranged satisfactorily, or at least 1t looked that way to those Who had participated in the strike. mat everything was not satisfactory to the company, although the people in charge may have swallowed their dislikes at the time, is contained in the story told in the Democrat office this morning, The Adjusters' union, which is q branch of the labor organ 1zations of the city, held meeting last night and elected the following officers: President, Julius L. Louria; vice-president, Jacob Apkareon; griev- slA>C ". lAelleE duu lLs Guttner. Shortly before 10 o'clock this morning these four men were called before Foreman Horne in the Clock Co and were told to quit the factory.
 The president and vice-preSident ap- peared at the Democrat office ndstold the following story. After the strike. had been settled one year ago. the | men who had been implicated in de manding a better condition of things in their department were separated and put in different rooms in tile fac | tory. They were not given the best treatment, so those two claimed. and as a consequence two of the adjusters 1 quit during the year. Three more, 1 these two gentlemen claimed, were dis 1 charged during the year. Matters l Went along in this way until about ! one month ago. when they said eight l of the striking adjusters were put into one room and they were given the ! worst of the work to do. They said that everything that could be done to make it unpleasant for them was done. When the four officers of the union who were elected last night Were l called before the foreman and told l that they could get through they asked for the reason of their discharge. l They were given no satisfaction and l were not even allowed to finish up 1 the work that was on their benches, but were told to get their time at once. l They claim that they are the best l men at the work in the shop and have
 been there from four to five years. New hands are being put to work l daily and they could not understand l why they were discharged. unless it l was from the fact that they had been
 prominent in the strike one year ago
 and weres elected officers of the Ad-
 justers' union last night.
 This committee of two made no com | plaints against any one person in the
 factory, but they claim that they had l been singled out as examples and as
 warning to all others in the factory ] not to become members of labor
 unions. They have called meeting 1 of the AdjuSterS' union for tonight ill
 Hellmann's hall to consider the trou-
 ble and to find out what is best to be
 done.
 Another story of the trouble is
 that thirty-tive men employed ill the
 turning department at the Waterbury
 Clock Cos factory on North Elm
 street were laid off last evening. and
 half dozen aljusters followed them
 this forenoon. This heavy suspension
 of employees is attributed to two
 causes, lack of business in the trade
 and a readiustment of things to fit the
 new system of management which
 was inaugurated last week. It is re-
 ported that another lay-of equally as
 large, if not more so, will take place
 soon in order to get at the source of
 the difficulty that brought about the
 necessity of q new management. How
 long the suspended employees will be
 out of work is not known. but 1t is ex-
 pected that it will not be long.