Waterbury Democrat., 1902-07-12
WORK TIED UP YET
Hod Carriers and Contractors
 Can't Come Together.
CITY WORK AT STAND STILL

Retaining Walls, Conduits, Water
 Ways As They Were More Than One
 Week Ago-The Hitch Is Over the
 Recognition of the Union by Some
 of the Contractors--It Is Impossible
 to Get the Feelings of the Men On
 the Question As They Cannot Talk
 English-Bosses Think If MasonS
 Will Agree to Go to Work They Can
 Get Laborers to Attend Them.
 The bod carriers strike is still on and as result some of the contractors are in bad box notably those on clty work who have to complete their Work within certain time or pay neaVy penalties In some instances sewer work is blocked on account of the in- ability of the cohtn2ctors to get brick layers to build manholes. It was salu to-day that one contractor brought a bricklayer here from out of town and that his work is going along without any interruption while that of others is at a standstill If this be true there must be something wrong and it should be righted at once. The Thompson Brothers have not laid stone on the Mill street retaining wall since the strike started, the conduit work on North Main street is there just as It was week or more ago and people are beginning to grumble about | the condition of the street. This IS | Chatfield & Chatfield's job. McManus | {. .l I ,1+. Iytan | become of him if he cannot get help. The same condition exists with regard to the buildings in the center and all over town so that really the situation is critical and things cannot remain as they are much longer. The contract ors hope that the briclzlayers and mas sons will cut themselves loose from | the bod carriers next week and if thla happens then the row will be on for { fair between the hod carriers and the bosses. The latter claim that they can fill the places of the strikers. This is denied by the bod carriers, all of whom feel confident that every man in town who works at that kind of business Is affiliated with the union and that men will not come from other places.
 If the bricklayers and masons de- eide to go to work it is thought that that will end the strike. but the skilled workmen appear divided on this ques- tion and nothing definite will be known on that point until next Tues day unless the bricklayers and masons should get together tonight or to- morrow, something which they are l likely to do.
 A contractor told a Democrat reporter to-day that he was after spending sew eral hours hunting around for few English speaking laborers, but failed to find one. ''You can't talk to the Italian laborers now" he said, Some time ago they were forcing themselves on us, but since they got with the ' union they don't seem to recognize us at all. If you ask one of them to 20 to work he will tell you he can't un- til the strike is settled and some of them won't give you even that much satisfaction"
 I At present the only disputed point
 is the recognition of the union. The contractors say they will sign no agreement binding themselves to em- iplov none but union men and the men claim that they shall refuse to work
 until this has been done. If clash Is to he averted one side will have to yield. Which shall it be?