Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-21
TRYING 10 BREAK THE STRIKE
Officials of Railroad Company
 Will Not Give In.

Twenty Five New Men at Work To
 Day-NIore Expected To-Morrow-
 Strikers Held l Secret Session This
 Morning-Police Drive Strikers from
 Bridge Where They Were Watching
 New Men at Work-New Haven
 Men Go Out on Sympathetic Strike.
 New York. Nov 21.-The officials of the New York. New Haven x Hartford railroad are striving to break the strike of the switchmen on the Har- lem division of the line and express confidence ill their ability to do so. Twelve men brought here from Bos- ton during the night were put to work this morning and one of the railroad officials said that 300 additional men engaged to take the places of the strikers would be at work in the yards within 24 hours. Half of them, lie said, would arrive by special train to-. day from the west, and the other half would reach here tonight by another special X through freight bound for Boston was made tip and despatched at ] o'clock this morning by five reg ular men. and an hour later the 12 men brought from Boston began mak- ing up another train. The men worked under police protection. but the strik- CTS made no attempt to Interfere with them. The strike has tied up large quantities of freight.
 The strikers were in session to-day and 1t was expected that they would make some effort to extend the strike.
 Superintendent Shepard said, that he felt quite satisfied. He said that he had three switch engines at work to- day while yesterday there was only one working. He said the milk trains arrived on schedule time and that the regular freight for the Berkshires left the yard on time. He said he had re- ceived long list of applications for positions and expected that every va cancy would be filled during the day.
 A large number' of the strikers as sembled on the Willis avenue bridge during the morning and watched the new men at work. The police evil dently fearing trouble thought it best to drive the men from the bridge and soon had that structure cleared.
 Superintendent Shepard denied the statement of another official that 300 men were to be brought here to take the places of the strikers. He said that there were D men at work in the Harlem river yards. He expected that additional men would be put to work during the day and in couple of days the full quota of men would be employed.
 Mir Shepard added that he did not expect q sympathetic strike among the other employees of the road
 The conference between q commit- tee of the strikers and q group of the officials of the railroad was in pro- greSS this afternoon at the Harlem river. Terms of peace are being dis cussed.
 New Haven, Nov 21.-sympathetic action was taken by the Switchmen, freight handlers and the yard brake men. in accordance with an order is sued from hadqnarters of the strikers in New York, at 2 o'clock this morn ing. Switching conductors and brake men to the number of 1l5 went out this morning. For q time q complete tie-up of the freight seemed imminent. Freight engineers or firemen are not included. The passenger schedule will not be affected At noon the oticials at the general office had received no report of trouble on the line east of here. Agents of the strikers have gone east to influence the freight handlers. Officials of the road expect that the men will receive, but little encourage ment. The officials also believe that the men will return to work before night.
 Meriden. Nov 21.-The local station agent of the N. Y.. N. H. & H. rail- road has notified shippers that no more freight will be accepted at pres ent. No freight trains have reached here from the south this morning. It is said local freight will arrive dur ing the afternoon.
 Middletown. Nov 21.-Freight ship. ments are tied up on account of the. strike. Nothing was received from points south this morning.
 SAILED FOR SOUTH SEA-