The weekly examiner., 1901-04-27

tiOn. A new and eXcremeiy attractive set of subjects has been chosen, and they are of a class to interest all per sons who like this class of entertain ment.
 PARIS AND NEW YORK IN TOUCH WITH CEASES.
 Paris and New York are brought in close touch with Waterbury by the cre- ations shown in T. Chase's trimmed hat department. Expert and artistic mill liners are constantly reproducing the latest and most attractive of the pat tern hats and bonnets in vogue in the continental and American cities. Ev- cry shape and style being displayed. THE TUESDAY NIGHT CLOSING. It is strange how far some people en- gagged in manufacturing will go, and what motives will prompt them to try to head off any movement on foot to
 benefit the working people of a com- munity, or to undo what humane ad- has secured. It is, too, surprising to what methods such business men will resort and what selfish motives are be- hind such attempts of theirs in the endeavor to upset what benefits labor
 has already secured. No sooner was the united movement of the clerks in the stores of Waterbury-backed by a petition signed by over 5000 people successful with our merchants in se- curing the Tuesday evening closing for in c&rtain shops began to attempt ac- tion to obtain reversal of the deci- sion of the merchants to close on Tues day evening. They cared nothing for the humane side of the question, both as presented by the clerks and rec ognized by the merchants themselves. These few avaricious manufacturers, who believe that the sweat-shop is the proper place for every man who labors by the day, at once began their rriisalT6 of opposition. They regard the labor ing people, not only in their own shops, but in general as a class, as merely human drudges and slaves. Tn most instances they are the ones who treat them as such in their own shops. Now, these three or four manufac- turers in Waterbury saw, or thought they saw, in the success of the clerks movement for Tuesday evening clos ing the beginning of crusade which
 in time might affect themselves. They
 regarded this movement as but pre-
 Jude, coupled with the success of the
 painters strike for an eight-hour day,
 to the demand of their own shop hands
 for a shortening up of their own hours
 of labor. This idea took possession of
 them, and to head off such possibility,
 they felt the need of immediate ac-
 tion
 But it would never do to let it ap-
 pear publicly that this opposition was a
 move of manufacturers for their own
 benefit and grounded upon their own
 policy of selfishness. The move would
 be dead at the very start if their cloven
 hoof and the motives which inspired
 them were publicly apparent. Con-
 sequently their movement in opposi-
 tion must be made to appear on the
 outside to come from laboring people
 themselves, and to be for their benefit,
 and not their employers benefit. These
 manufacturers were in fact, however,
 the wolves and their workmen the lambs. They had number of petitions
 prepared, the general purport of which
 was to urge the merchants of the city to revoke their consent already given to
 the clerks for a Tuesday evening clos
 ing of their stores, and stating that
 even with the stores open on Tuesday
 evenings, along with Wednesday, and
 Saturdays, enough opportunity was not
 given thus to our laboring population
 to do it's evening trading, especially
 such as work during the day in the
 shop. This request they pretended
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