Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-10
END OF STRIKE
Striking Painters Have Gained
 Their Point.
4 FIRMS SIGNED AGREEMENT.

And the Men Have Returned to Work Three Remain, but It Is Expected
 They Will Agree to the Terms Pro. posed-Strikers Are All Jubilant and Happy at the Outcome Miniature Strike at Randolph & Cloves Squelched.
 The painters and paper hangers of WatefDury are in happy frame Of
 mlnd to-day. They have practically Won their contention for an eight-hour
 day and naturally they all feel jubi-s i iahI over their victory. Already the Alglatzkl-Iarks company, Valentine,
 Austin x Woodruff and A.F Taylor ~ 70 nave yielded to the demands of the union and their men have gone to work. It is expected that the other houses VIII fall into line to-day or to-
 morrow ana then everybody will be happy. The articles of agreement rec- ogn1ze the union and stipulate that eight hours shall constitute 2. .dsav,s
 work, all overtime to be paid for s,,f the rate of time and a half If alsn provides that the minimum wages for
 painters shall be $225 per day and S2oO for paper hangers The union agrees to help their employers in every manner possible, even to the extent Of refusing to take any jobs on their ovvrr account, that is, so long as they are employed by the master painters and paper hangers. Everybody will be pleased, the women folks especially. to learn that the difference has bae1f
 adjusted without a prolonged strike 2 and considerable loss in time anfiA 1 money to employers and employees. to say nothing of the great Inconvenience such thing would cause the public. some of the women were getting mad about it and were thinking of start- ing to do their own painting and pa- perlng and quite q few of the horrld men, Who think they never can ncf enough work out of the women, were prompting them to go ahead and not
 wait to see the fight to finish. Bnt enough has happened during the past lew hours to warrant the statemsnf that the housewives can now sit down
 and boss the job instead of doing ir themselves and then make the men come down with the dust. Let the housekeeping go on. < Three firms remain now to sicn the elght-hour agreement, and it lis expecf- ed that they will do so before Tfgl,f They are F. W. Dains. Lapalme & Hoffman and s. N. Decker. Natura1lv the men feel jubilant over the result. but they are not throwing their hats in the air or giving vent to similar ex- pressions of victory. They have lmaiTl- tained all along that the extra holir's
 pay will not come from the contrac-
 tors pocket but from the pocket of the person for whom the work is done They further say that the result of the strike cannot fail to produce a
 good effect for all branches Of labor In the city. It is the stepping stone, they claim to a. general Shortening Of the working day in Waterbury. This be- ing manufacturing city, they say, the
 result of the strike cannot fail to have
 more significance as to the trend of the times than had the strike taken
 place in any other city. In every re- spect, they say, this is a ten-hour work ing day community Tn all of the f'Ac- : tories if an employe fails to report for work precisely on the sound of the factory whistle he is ssdocked' so much out of his wages, while in some of 4
 the factories the loss of minute
 means the loss of an hour; that is, thes
 emplOye cannot begin work until the
 next hour. So that essentially and
 practically ten hours work to the dot
 is expected from all factory hands.
 and the factories being the life of tlle
 city they were therefore the founda-
 ton on which the hours have been es~
 tablished. Consequently the painters
 and paper hangers are confident that
 after all the building trades have pros
 cured an eight-hour working day, tha factory trades will be the next to join in the onward march ofmodern times
 Seron Decker, a boss painte, signed the aight-hour agreement this after~ noon.
 It was reported about town today that big strike was on at the firm
 of Randolph & Gloves which was like- ly to assume huge proportions and probably result in considerable tTou- ble for the company. A little investI~ gatfon. however showed that the story was greatly exaggerated, the differ- ence being nothing more than misun- derstanding among the night shift as to what they should receive in return for their labor. One of the men told representative. of this paper that they went to work believing that they would be paid at the rate of at leaSt $15O night, but when they got their wages some of them received only SIPS and others S1.35. They consd- cred this poor remuneration for hus- ting night job and decided to give it up. He said the company had now abandoned the all night shift and will add to it's day force and run until 10 o'clock at nights.