The weekly examiner., 1901-06-01
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Milking the City Treasury.

The Examiner man thought that the main argument which consolidated our town and city was that one government was cheaper than two and that the projections against leakages of the city treasury in it's charter were as nearly perfect as human skill could make them. But where there's will there's a way'' always. This was shown at the meeting of the board of public works. one evening last week, to the Queen's@ taste. It was, it is true, a snlall matter, involving at most the city expenditure of but few hundred dollars-but it points moral for the public.
 It seems that the Pan-American di- rectors in Buffalo recently sent, as they did to all cities in the United States, a printed circular to Mayor Kilduff, in viting Waterbury to make, among the others, a photographic exhibit of it's parks. The mayor responded that we had no extensive parks until Hamilton park should in future be rescued from its present chaos. They then asked to send such as we had-the Green, Union square and Franklin Triangle on East Main and Elm streets. So our mayor brought up the subject of half dozen views, etc., before the board of public works last week. That board at once ordered the pictures and empowered the mayor to procure them and have them 'tput off at Buffalo" At once, Alderman Chesson. who pays no taxes whatever, and who at the same meeting voted to compel city laborers to work ten hours a day, with characteristic grabbing of a non-taxpaying office holder, suggested that he would like to see an addition to the vote just passed that the mayor also be authorized to procure, at public expense, copies of such views for the members of the board. It is strange, when it comes to helping themselves, how little feeling men have in office for the pockets of the taxpayers.
 The climax, however, of wastefulness was when our little friend, Engineer Cairns, who has large views and plans for unlimited expense in his own de- partment, and, though not a member of the board, said, merely kind of lickspfttle puppy-dogism to the mayor so as to cater to lis good graces, ''It seems to me as if the board ought to authorize Mayor Kilduff himself to visit Buffalo and the exhibition at the expense of the city and to superintend >;o41, I,1 positions as exhibits.
 Is not this junketing proposal of our engineer and that idea of Alderman Chesson a. fair sample in each case, of how we'll it would be for the cityss finances if it's taxpayers would only fill its offices with economical men, and not politicians and leeches?
 A public city board of Greater Water ] bury ought to be ashamed to find itself even so belittled by such proposals as these two.
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 One View of It.
 The Examiner man is firm believer in labor unions in all the various ways in which labor finds employment. It is nowhere else so absolutely certain as in the case of labor that union is strength. Capital long ago discovered this fact and found that millions could be made by combined capital where be- fore when each enterprise in which capital was invested went it alone the profits were on1yssin.s thousands So in the of IaborsAt. We had an exam pie of this recentlygin this city in the movement of the Clerks union to get a Tuesday night closing of stores. At the start, when a committee of the clerks went to our merchants, they at once asked, How many have you as members?" The reply was There are some 200 odd clerks on our rolls" Only 200 out of nearly 700 clerks in the city! Of course, the merchants at once replied, Why, your union don't represent even a third of the clerks. You ask this concession, but how can you speak for the other two-thirds not in your union % That a fair ques- tion- It was unanswerabIe. The only practical and successful reply was to let the matter wait and, in the mean time let the clerks in the union go to work and enroll the bulk of the 500 who had not previously joined. Then, when by such work, the union mum bered over two-thirds of the whole force in the city it's committee, with such a force at it's back, made it's Tuesday evening closing request, the store keeDerS at once and without a. hint of