The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-11
THE SETTLEMENT.

Adjustment Came at 5:30 Last Satur- day Afternoon.
 1 The strike of motormen and conduc- tors of the Fair Haven & Westville road came to an end Saturday after noon about 5:3O when the following communication was received by the ex- ecutive committee of the strikers in re- spofse to @ communication sent to the directors of the road:
 1 Office of the Fair Haven & Westville l Railroad Company. | New Haven, Conn.,, Aug. 9th, 1902. l To the Motormen and Conductors of
 the Fair Haven & Westville Rail-
 road Company:
 Your communication of this date is received. The Fair Haven & Westville Railroad company will receive at all reasonable times a committee consist ing of employees of the company only. who may be appointed at meeting comprised of employees of the company only, to receive and consider any griev- ances that may arise, and will use all reasonable efforts to redress them fair ly.
 Membership In the Amalgamated As sociation of Street Railway Employees, is not now. and will not be in the fu- ture. just cause for discharge from the employment of said company. l If desired, copies of all assurances made to the business mems committees will be given, addressed to the motor men and conductors of the company, 1 I1,r ha nnH Gtafn6 to the committee of business men, if the strike be terminated speedily, the ', twenty-one men recently discharged will be reinstated internationally. THE FAIR HAVEN & NASHVILLE
 RAILROAD COMPANY.
 (Signed)
 By HENRY S. PARMELEE,
 President.
 The communication that was sent to the directors of the road, the reply to which is given above, was as follows: To the Directors of the Fair Haven &
 Westville Railroad Company:
 We simply ask for the recognition of our union.
 By the phrase recognition of our union' we mean that the Fair Haven & Westville Railroad company will re- ceive at all reasonable times com mittee consisting of employees of the company only, who may be appointed at meeting comprised of employees oi the company only, to adjust any griev- ances that may arise. and that mem bership in the Amalgamated association is not now. and will not be in the flu ture just cause for discharge from tho employment os said company.
 "The executive committee unanimous ly has agreed" declared MT. Fitzger aid, "that if the railroad officials vii give a signed statement to this effect 1 we will recommend an immediate set clement of the strike" The executive subcommittee from the strikers wen into an ante-room with Committeeman | Gallagher in. order to make a fev changes in the phrasng of the re $ quest, and again the citizens commit I tee took up the question of presentin! y further demands the railroad off cials.
 For while it looked as if the citizens { committee considered another request t ! the railroad officials doubtful policy but then it was pointed out that thi perhaps, was the last helping hand tn citizens committee could give Chair man Fitzgerald in his internal fight il J the mass meeting. It was pointed ou thta with his signed, statement iron the officials of the railroad, MT. Fit2 w geralds' efforts toward a settlement which heretofore had given the citizens Y | annoIyro oOuIJ h brought to a successful conclusion. l was then decided that the citizens com mittee use their influence toward help ing MT. Fitzgerald, and instead of giv ing him one representative as he ha requested on the committee going to se the railroad officials the citizens asso citation voted in favor of having the eX ecutive subcommittee of three consti ute the strikers part of the committe'
 The news of the company's willing ness to accede to their demands wa received by the strikers by an outburs of enthusiasm that could be heard a far as Church street. This demonstra tion they continued until they voted adjourn with the understanding thG every man would report at Grand avt nue car barns as soon as possible ' their uniforms. This they did and half hour after the strike was settle a number oe pilot cars were sent ol over the road and when these returne the regular cars were dispatched an the reception given them as the clan of the bells was heard was such as hs never taken place in New Haven bt fore.
 The amended demands of the stril CTS, which concerned the recognitio