The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-20

the announcement was made that the
strike was over. The representatives
of the Chamber of Commerce and the
Business Mems association and the 9TH
er members of the committee, nearly
all members of this chamber, were en-
| tirely successful. But f1fty-seven hours
elapsed between the organization of
the committees and the end of the
strike. And yet on that Thursday
morning, before we commenced, by way
of encouragement, we read as a head
ing in a paper, THE Trolley Strike-No
Settlement in Sight"
What was 1t that enabled the COM
mittee of fifteen to do their work so
quickly? Perhaps there were many
things which contributed, but the all
controlling reason that both employers
and employees seemed at once to recog-
nize the fact that the committee of f1f-
teen came from body richer and more
powerful than the Westville road,
stronger and more numerous than the
Amalgamated Association of Street
Railway Employees of America. 1t was
a committee representing the American
people, the pubic-at-large, and as my
friend Pat Egan would say, the great
third party in all disagreements be-
| tween employer and employee the party
that pays the fares, that pays the divi-
dends and the wages, whose state gov
eminent is bound to protect the lives
and property of all it's citizens whose
federal government for more than a
century has always been successful
when a resort to arms has been neces-
sary and almost always successful in
it's diplomatic relations with the great
powers Of the civilized world.
| A few weeks later committee Of
one undertook to represent the great
third party of the people in an effort
| to settle another strike.
| l am inclined to agree with General
Bradley that 1t was his reading of the
accurate reports of the trolley strike in
our New Haven newspapers that put it
| into President Roosevelt's strenuous
head, and it was up to him to settle the
coak strike.
| At first-but for few hours only-he
met with about the same reception
which first greeted the committee Of
| fifteen. Emphasis was laid upon the
great risk he was taking with the dig
nifty of his high office. But all that is
changed now. Day by day, as we read
| the proceedings before the commission,
we see the possibility-yes. the strong
proba bility-that the coal strike will be
satisfactorily settled.
These are troublous times, Mr.. Pres
ident, but believe that we shall soon
see an end of them, because the third
party has a leader who will inspire in
the people the courage to back him up
in all his efforts to secure equal and
exact justice to employer and employe,
to all men of whatever state or persua-
sion, religious or political
| Walter Seaver, secretary of the Ma
tional Wire corporation, was the next
speaker. His subject was "One of Our
Newcomers" Mr. Seaver said in part:
I Born in Boston and living there until
I came to New Haven, l have always
felt great interest in the state Of Con-
necticut. Your early history and the
history of my native state have been
closely allied ever since the days when
| Windsor, Hartford, Wethersfield and
| Saybrook were settled by Massachu-
sets men, about the time John Daven-
| port came here. Some of my own an
! cestors came to Connecticut from Mas
! sachusetts before the Revolution, and
, one of them fought in the Connecticut
militia during that war; but personal
reasons are not necessary for adnira-
ton of Connecticut's early history.
The charters of New York and Penn
| sylvania confiicted with this grant to
| Connecticut. but Connecticut felt sure
that they had the right to settle the
territory in question, and they deter
mined to use it,
An indomitable spirit has vitalized
| the whole history of Connecticut. At
| ter the Revolution was over and the
! country settled down once more to
| peaceful pursuits the Connecticut Yam
kee came to the front ina new line It
| was then they began to utilize the little
| streams for their mills, and during the