Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-18
OUTLOOK
SECURING THoMASToN.
Clock Go Looking for Help-Manufac
 turer Says Fulton Spoke Too Late.


 From Thomaston comes the inform ation that last Sunday a Waterbury man spent all day in that town endeay- bring to induce experienced toolmak- CTS and machinists on clocks to come to work in Waterbury, but although he offered big inducements he failed to find anyone willing to come to accept the places vacated by the strikers. At one house the man was away and the agent drew a rosy picture to his wife of how pleasant it would be for her to live in the Brass City and have her husband to remove to this city. The machinists and toolmakers at Thomas ton took no stock in the man, union as we'll as non-union men mak- ing no bones of the state ment that they should pre- fer to loaf if need be rather than step into factory where the employees were engaged in a conflict with the company regarding wages and hours. ! It looks as if the union was well forti- | fled for the battle so that unless both sides yield little and thus effect a compromise we are face to face with a protracted strike.
 The politicians are not bothering their heads about the proposed strike of the toolmakers and machinists, but are plying their own game in a quiet, systematic way and ere long some of them will have their fences fixed so securely that it will puzzle their op- ponents to break through them. But. as the Scotch poet paid, sthe best laid Ya1a 1 orIo and the fellows who imagine they have every available avenue closed up may be surprised to learn when the time to put their plans to practical test come around that others have been at work, too, and that they builded to better advantage than any one sus- pected, and in consequence it is safe to predict that more than one aspir- ant for public recognition will be. dis appointed.
 I'm very sorry,'' said manufac- turer to a reporter to-day, "that MT Fulton did not make that statement published in last nights Democrat a month ago. We were all looking to him because he is at the head of the firm employing the largest number of toolmakers and machinists in the city. If that had appeared month ago it
 
 the tOolmakers and machinists from joining the union. I think Mir Fulton gave excellent reasons why it would not be wise to disturb the pleasant re- lations that have always existed be tween capital and labor in Waterbury, and 1 am very sorry that he did not decide to speak sooner; but I hope 1t is not too late'' Of course this is one way of looking at it; but it should be remembered that the union men do not take this view of it. They claim that anything that might have been said would not have deterred the tool makers and machinists of this town from joining in the general demand for shorter hours. and while they re- gard MT Fulton's treatment of the question as probably the best that could have been offered from the man. ufacturers' standpoint, they claim that it is nothing more than what represen- tatiyes of capital have to say in de- fense of their position all over the country and do not pretend to allow it to deter them from carrying out their plans as originally laid down.
 Cleveland, O, May 1S.-The 2.OoO union machinists Of this city held an enthusiastic meeting last night and uemanded that strike be inaugarated Monday morning.
 Ansonia, May 1s.-The machine de- partments of two of the largest shops in Derby will be shut down tonight for an indefinite time and the employees who have presented a demand for a nine-hour day, look upon it as virtual lockout. These two shops are the Whitlock Machine company, and the Driggs-Seabury Gun and Ammunition company. The former anonunces that it's works will be closed from three to six months and perhaps longer. The Driggs-Seabury company gives as a reason for shutting down, desire to reorganize.
 wallingford, May 1S.-The maehin- ists here are not organized and no- body anticipates any labor agitation next Monday. The men say they have presented no demand.