Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-11

could be united, they could more easily bring about any desired reform, or at least give it fair trial but as this is not the condition we see no way for 1t but to join the issue and see how 1t comes out. There will, we suppose be friction, but we hope it will be useful friction, and not that which only irri- tates and leaves its cause still exlst- ing: that is. the question still undecid- ed and to be settled one way or the other by a future struggle. The rall- road companies employ large per centage of the machinists of the coun- try, and we venture to predict that ii the men employed by them secure the nine hour day it will not materially ef- feet the prices of stocks in Wall street, while if the work turned out per man per day is materially lessened, the de mand for machine tools, etc, caused thereby will be a good thing for other branches of the machine trade"
 The morning reports of the pickets to headquarters showed that one man hailing from Bristol got work at Blake & Johnson's shop on North Elm street. He does not Delong to the association.
 The men say now that their greatest enemy is the professional 'Hscab" who makes it his business to travel the country working here and there at unus- ually, high wages for the time being and leaving his work when he is most wanted But to get men competent to do the work of the average machinists who liys n the Naugatuck valley, the men say it can not be done. A man named Rivers, hailing from the West procured work at the Farrel foundry last week. He claimed to be 8 skilled workman but results show that he was not even accustomed to the work he was expected to do at the foundry. Structural work was his forte and. very little of that Is done at the place men toned. Under other circumstances such a workman, the men say, would not be hired
 The police department has prepared for any emergency. Arrangements have been made so that in moment a number of policemen can be summoned to any place near the center where a disturbance may occur:
 The strike situation at the Farrel Foundry in Ansonia has not apparently discouraged the local situation one bit. The men are still confident that in the end the employers will see the justice of their requests and grant them.
 Years ago, it is recalled, the town was knocked sky high by the officials of the Wallace factory, who brought to the town train load of colored men from the Carolinas and, defying the sentiment of the populace marched the men that were ever afterward to cast the deciding vote in that community up the street in the face of the men whose places they were to take.
 But then, as last night, the people held their peace. Reports vary from the scene of the invasion. Some say the number of men was forty, some fifty, but the officers who went from this city Sheriffs Rigney, Rametti and James Lunny say the number was be- tween 100 and 135- They landed in the town at 1 o'clock this morning coming direct from New Haven. At Derby the train was met by the sheriffs of whom they were thirty in all
 The deputies were stationed at the Bassett house in Derby and it was ar- ranged that when about ten miles from town the train was to blow its whistle announcing it's approach. At that hour a train whistle could be heard many miles away. By twos, then the depu- ties marched to the junction so that all of them were there about ten minutes before the train bowled in. A big crowd had congregated. mostly machin- ists on strike. The moment the train arrived the deputies boarded it, every man with his right hand ready to pluck his revolver from his hip pocket where it rested, loaded, every chamber They had been given orders to shoot and to shoot low at the first indication of a disturbance, but the crowd merely hoot- ed the occupants of train and yelled as it steamed up to Ansonia. At this place another crowd was assembled at the depot while the tracks were lined with crowds also. for 1t was unknown where the train would unload its cargo of human living flesh. The train, how ever, bore straight for the rear en- trance of the foundry which abuts on the track. The big gate was swung wide open by sheriff on guard and the train coming to halt it's contents were at once unloaded. These consist ed of besides the "scabs" cooking uten- sils and provisions, beds and bedding, cooks and servants. There were about dozen colored men in the number and the rest excepting few, about half dozen at the utmost. were poorly dressed, showing to the discerning eyes of the deputies that the men were eith- CT incompetent mechanics, that they had been long time out of work or were what are called dummies or pre- tended machinists.
 Preparations for long siege were at once begun. The cook had the pipe of his portable stove running up the black