Waterbury Democrat., 1901-07-01
A PUNCHING BEE.
Striker and Non-Striker Pum-
 mel Each Other.N
POLICE REFUSED TO ACT.

Prosecuting Attorney Durant Eiso' Is Said, Refused to Issue Wafian
 Strikers Are Hot and Threaten 'o ,e r,,o Con cat Fair Play Indignant Because Chief of foiiee Would Give Them No SatisfaetioH.
 n,,o 4.;,-a s;+ro+;on today was very lively and interesting. Incidents O gan to happen in the early merhins and all day long the men were nof- ing. The most interesting eVsne oh the day was an alleged assault upon one of the strikers, Edward Eafie, Dy William Granger, son of a foreman employed at the Farrel foundry anu q deserter from the strike. ChieA oi Police Egan has become involveu Ill the matter, so has the prosecutihg at :orney, H. R. Durant, and the neh ay they are determined to asfertalh if the police have been ordered to uiS- criminate against them in the per formance of their duty. Earle anu Granger are both young men. GFan- ger appears to be about p years olu' rather short for his age and stoul' while Earle is slim, of refined appeaI- ance, clean face and about 2V years old.
 The matter has already beep gwen official action by the strikers, anu lney have voted to retain the services ol Representative Guilfoile and senator Kennedy to assist them in their pur- pose.
 The disturbance occurred 1n thls manner:
 About ' o'clock Earle was passing by the Farrel foundry, where he had been employed until the strike was declared. He was accosted bylYoung Granger, who asked him why he was calling him a scab. Earle replidl that he had never alluded to him any ,4anner by that name, and flFt he could not produce anyone Whq ever heard him apply the epithet to Iran- ger. Granger became very angry ana said he would rInch Earle's head ana do all manner of things with him. Earle replied that if Granger was look ing for trouble he thought he could be obliged, whereupon Granger seized Earle by tae shjrt front and pulled him across the sidewalk An otlcer was standing by, the strikers claim, and Earle requested him to arrest Granger, claiming he was assaulted by him. The officer refused to mike the arrest, and some words to the et- feet that if a striker bAd done what Granger did he would have been ar rested upon the spot.
 The men, Earle and two others, then hied themselves to Representative Guilfoile told him the situation as above related, and upon his advice they went to Prosecuting AttOrIey Durant and repeated the tale to htm on the basis that they wished War rant issued for the arrest of Grange.
 The prosecutor went with the Indn to the chief of police and went over the alleged occurrence. The result waF that the prosecutor refused to issue q warrant. While they were in the pol lice station, the strikers say that the chief of police said to them that hitherto the police had been too lenient with the strikers, and in fu- ture would give them their deserts. One of the men remarked that if Q striker had done what Granger did he 1. would have been arrested immediately, and the chief of police replie: You \ bet he would.'' The man said lhat was hardly fair-the law was male to ap- ! ply to all equally.
 The result of their visit to he police | station and the prosecuting attorney ! the men reported to their counsel, MI Guilfoile, and he advised them to see Judge Burpee. The judge fas out ot town. Their next. step wal to bring \ the matter before the usua morning meeting of the men, and it was deter mined there that if the proscuting at torney refused to issue thi warrant and he was sustained in thidaction by Judge Burpee, to instruct Hpresenta tive Guilfoile to bring formll charges to the board of public safeE against the chief of police. The bodd of pub Ii csafety meets tomorrow Fening.
 Chief Egan's story, as haclaims j was told him by Earle, willd show that the trouble had it's soufe on th, park one evening last wAk, wher Granger claims Earle call9d him '.scab." Furthermore. accofdng to tn, chief. Earle was a picket atfhe foun dry this morning and tool hold .o1 Changers arm, which in tIe opinion of the chief, constituted a lreach o the peace.
 In the opinion of Prosecutd Durant the policeman was the best5udge O. the nature of the circumstane, beins an eye witness. and as he did lot mak, au arrest the natural inferene, there fore, was that no violation o1the law occurred.
 1t was stated last evening lf one O Sheriff Dunham's deputies. that crisis was near at hand in tn matte of the strike among the macIhists a the great Farrel foundry in knsonia Since the machinists' strik9 began some weeks ago this concern las beel limping along with about fortJimport ed hands (scab labor, as theEtriker call them), in the place of sme 30
 men who went out at the tim of tn
 strike. Since that time the Seriff o
 this county has, at the instane of tn
 wealthy Ansonia concern, kepla fore
 of from twelve to fifteen deHties ol
 duty at the works night and ay. Tn
 Register has more than once dlled al
 tention to the uneasiness of th depu
 ties from this section who hde bee