Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-07
NOT so, SAYS MEO
Denies Rumor About His Getting
 Men For Foundry.
STORY CREATED A SENSATION
Meo Says He Only Applied for Two

Meo Says He Only Applied for Two
 Discharged Workmen Who Cannot
 Speak English-Still No Sign of Civ
 ing in on Either Side-Pickets Are
 Alert and Attending Strictly to
 Business-Picnic Matters Being Set
 tied Up To-day.
 The most sensational report of the day in connection with the strike con cerns Donate Meo, the well-known Italian barber whose shop is at oo South Main street in the Lewis build iug. The report says that Meo IS all agent to procure help for the Farrei foundry, and that he got two Italians employment there this morning. Meo was seen about this matter. He sald he was not an agent or anything else in the employ of the foundry com pany ana was in no way interested Ill the strike there. When asked II ne had taken two men to the ofnce or the concern this morning to get tnelh work. he said he did. and that they were men who were discharged rom the concern. He was asked when they were discharged and at hrst ne said about month ago; then ne saio he did not know. He went with the men, he said, because they do not un- derstand the language of the country. 1t is said that for every man Meo fur nishes the foundry he is paid 50. This Meo also denies. Another thing he denied was that he knew in what de- partment the men had been employed.
 F. D. Cross of the firm of Cross & Spiers said that so far as he knew there is no prospect of the manufac- turers granting the demands of the machinists.
 1t was reported this forenoon that those who have been employed at the E. J. Manville Machine company re- moved their tools to-day.
 Tn consequence of the threatening weather there will be no picnic this afternoon or evening.
 The strictest watch is maintained by the strikers at the railroad depots, express offices, and around the facto ries where the men are out. For an instance: Two reporters were talking to Fred E. Cross of Cross & Spiers this noon. The moment after the con- versation ceased and MT Cross went his way. one of the scribes was accost- ed by the committee from one of the shops and was asked if he belonged to the craft and was looking for work.
 Jones, the man who returned to work at Blake & Johnson's Monday morning leaves the shop five minutes before the whistle blows and returns five or ten minutes after the others. Though crowds no longer gather to / witness his coming and going, he is still guarded by policemen.
 The bulletin board at headquarters bears many notices these days The purport of some of them is to give tit for tat.
 The greater part of the day was de voted to straightening out the affairs of the picnic. 1t is not yet known what sum will be added to the mems fund. but it will not be less than s2.50O. At II o'clock last evening there was not thing to be bought on the picnic grounds, everything having been bought up.
 The moulders who struck at Mat thews & Willard's factory the other day are still out. The applicants for work are becoming fewer every day.
 One of Waterbury's wide awake business men is of the opinion that supposing the strike should be settled during the present week Waterbury will feel the effects of it for the next ten years. He says it Is just as easy to take away the business of a manu- facturing concern as it is to cut into a grocer's trade. He cited the follow ing incident as an illustration: "There is store in this city where had been in the habit of calling every day in the week for years and liked their goods so well l thought I never could think of dealing elsewhere. Something hap pened year ago Or so and they were closed for week. During that time I dealt in another store and was used so we'll at the new place that I forgot all about the other and have not been ID It since" He declared that the situa- ton in Waterbury is far worse than some people think The men show no signs of quitting and the manufactur- CTS have got wrought up to a point where they have made up their minds to suffer rather than yield. If this be true Waterbury has seen it's best days.