The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-11
PETITION TO GUST MIR. IVES
STATE SENATOR FREE HIS
 TAKEN SUCH ACTION.

OoenmeHf sent 10 AcunS OoVeTnoE
 Keeier-The Contents of fhe Petition
 in FuII-The Important Extracts from
 MT. Ives' Statement-Mueh Comment
 Caused i'm This City by MT. Ives' Po-
 sitI0n.
 State Senator James P. Bree of this city has taken prompt action upon the utterances of Franklin T. Ives of Mer- iden. WAo is a member of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. Mr. Ives came to this city in company with George A. Parsons of Hartford, another member of the board. MT. Smith of Sharon, the third member, was unable to attend. The two, who came, held brief consultation in the mayors office, after which they departed for their respective homes. MT. Ives was quoted last Saturday by the Meriden Journal in manner which has brought forth the following letter in the form of a petition mailed last night by Senator Bree to Acting Governor Keeler:
 New Haven, Conn.,, August g, 1902. Hon. Edwin o. Keeler, Acting Cover
 nor Hartford, Conn:
 Dear Sir: In the belief that such ac- tion as may seem to your excellency to be necessary will promptly be taken, I beg to direct your attention to the pub lished utterances of Franklin T. Ives of Meriden, member of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration. Although the board did not proceed to the scene of the recent trouble on the trolley lines in this city and put itself in communi- cation with both partes to the contro- versy it is alleged that MT Ives said to- representative of the Meriden Jour nal:
 My sympathies are entirely with the company. Rhe men have absolutely no grievance whatsoever. As I under stand it, and the members of the board looked into the matter thoroughly, the company discharged some men who spent their time, for which the company was paying, in electioneering and try ing to help along union affars. The company officials say that they were perfectly willing that man should do this kind of work on Sundays and nights in the week, but they objected to it in business hours.
 When the strikers representative spoke they said that the men had been discharged because they belonged to the union,s and am satisfied, that this was not so. The trouble was that the men while on duty went into saloons and such places, electioneering for their union.
 'They wished, as they say, that their union be recognized It seems to be as though they were asking that every man on the road be a Catholic or a Protestant, or they would not work with him. There are other members of the board who are disgusted with the actions of the strikers. They do not think that they have an atom of justice on their side. One of them, who is a strong labor man. told me himself that he was disgusted with the whole busi- ness, and especially the part in which the strikers were engaged.
 "The merchants and the people are not in sympathy with the strikers, but, rather, many of them believe that their actions were much too nasty, and then. again, that they did not have sufficient cause to strike"
 In my opinion these statements, if made as alleged by a member of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitra- ton, show his utter unfitness for the position and indicate tendency to pre- judge the attitude of one of the parties
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