Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-29
WIvESAT MEETING
Will Endeavop to Help Cause of
 Striking Maehinists.
MORE MEN ARE GOING BACK.

Rumor Says that Eight Will Return
 to Farrel Foundry on Monday-Rey
 Father SIocum and Mayor KilduH
 Said to be Trying to Effect Settle
 ment-Labor Rally at City Hall To
 morrow Afternoon.
 The wives of the striking mach1n- ists have taken up their cause, having last evening organized an auxiliary to their husbands association. On ac-- count of the weather there were not many ladies present, but still the num- Der was sufficient to give an index to the general feeling among those wo- men whose welfare is so much at stake in this issue.
 The ladies were addressed by Isaac Cowen of the Amalgamated society or engineers, who will tomorrow speak in the city hall at public meeting of the machinists.
 The strike has now arrived at it's critical point so far as the brass goods manufacturing concerns which nave been affected by it are interested. Had the Plume & Atwood men held out the others are confident that the result ali along the line would have been clean victory, for very good news is expect ed to arrive in few days in the form Of q check for sum which will allay any coldnesS or weakness in the knees that may. have been felt among the men. It is said that the machinery which starts an assessment upon the members of the federation of labor has at last been set in motion. This has been quite as stupendouS job as anyone with any knowledge of the machinery of fraternal organizations must admit.
 An idea of the intensity of the fight can be had from this statement When the Metal Trades association, an organ ization of manufacturers spreading all over the country, ascertained that on May 20 the machinists would un6oubt- edly strike for a nine hour day they had an injunction served upon the headquarters of the machinists asSocia- tion restraining the officers from issu- ing any funds to the members on the grounds that they had no right and therefore it was illegal to pay men money in order to keep them from work Therefore the hands and funds of the machinists' association were tied and to procure funds from other sources cost a good deal of time. But the avenues have at last been opened and labor societies all over the coun- try and on the other side of the ocean have determined to open their prxses and assist their fellow workmen on this side. It is on this account, there fore, when victory was in sight, when the agreement existing between the members of the Metal Trades associa- ftion ceases on July 1 or about that date, and every member will be at lib erty to deal with it's own employees without risk of bond, and, in fact, members of thht organization will, ac- cording to their own story, be glad to be out of it, there will be no more ser 1ous obstruetions to settlement of the strike
 It was reported this noon that eight men had decided to return to work in the Farrel foundry Monday morning. Inquiries at the headquarters showed that only three men were weak. and they had been induced to stay with the strike. One man has returned to work In the Holmes, Booth & Hayden fac tory and one of the 16 who went back to Plume 6 Atwoed's the other day has quit again.
 The Rev Father Slocum and Mayor kilduf have been quite busy among some of the manufacturers during the last few days. and the impression is that they are shaping a way toward reconciliation between the strikers and their employers
 Deputy Sheriff F. J. Rametti was To Ano 4I. by Sheriff Durham, but what he want ed him for he does not know. He be heyes that he is to take the place of one of the deputies now guarding the men who took the strikers places in the Farrel foundry down there.
 The striking toolmakers and machin- ists are still in a fighting attitude. and notwithstanding the fact that some or them have shown the white feather ana gone back to work, a majority of them have skipped the town or are yet here as defiant as they were on May 20 The few who have yielded as well as others who show signs of weakening are the ones that did the loudest talking at the outset. It was always so- The spouters in all walks or life are poor sticks. They have no backbone and as a result the bottom.
 
 have anything to do with.
 Chicago. June 29-A special to the Record Herald from Peoria. III. says: All the members of the blow workers union employed in the large plant of the Kingman Flow company in Avery vile have gone out on a strike and wifi refuse to return to work until some non-union men, wno are working in the machinery department, are dis charged. This strike was ordered by the Federation of Labor, with which the union is affiliated. About 25O men walked out
 New Britain, June 29.-Seventeen of the twenty men employed in the drop room at the Traut & Hine factory quit work this morning. The trouble arose over some of the men absenting them selves yesterday afternoon on the plea that 1t was too warm to work. Three men were discharged this morning and their comrades immediately stopped work.
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