The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-02-26
WATERBURY LIGHTS BURN
GOOD SERVICE THROUGHOUT
 CITY LAST NIGHT

Proposition to the Company Which Is
 Refused-Ask If it Is Not About Time
 the Public Got Afer the Company and
 Made It ''Get or Its High Horse"
 Waterbury. Feb. 25.-The arc lights did good service throughout the city to- night, although all of the trimmers in
 the employ of the Connecticut Railway and Lighting company went out on a strike the first of the week. The com pany brought on more than enough yesterday to fill their places. These men were obtained from different cities throughout the east, and came from companies who are we'll disposed to the trolley company. Not all of the lights burned, but most of them were on all night. The new men were protected in their rounds by deputy sheriffs who were sent here. at the request of the -o4l1HdIASs ny ChuidIl I"O pL three of the lighting wires were cut in the outskirts early in the evening, thus throwing several of the circuits in darkness.
 In the daily statement issued by the executive committee of the striking Trolleymen's union it was stated that ten days ago two prominent members of the Waterbury Business Mems asso- citation met the executive committee of the strikers and after a lengthy discus sion requested the strikers to consider the position that the general public had been placed in by the strike, and to draw up a proposition which might be submitted to the trolley company. This was done, and to-day the strikers com mittee is in receipt of an answer to the proposition from the trolley company. In the answer the company states that it is now, and always has been. ready to meet committee of it's employees to settle disputes, and that MT, Sewell and Colonel Burpee have stated this on many previous occasions; that 1t cannot accept the proposition of the strikers that differences that may arise shall be referred to an arbitration committee. according to a plan suggested by the strikers; that the proposition for ten- hour day, as submitted by the strikers. is still acceptable to the company, as 1t has been all along; that the company will not now change the rate of wages which existed when the strike began; that the company would pay twenty five cents per hour for snow-ploW work and not less than twenty cents per hour for all barn work; that all men shall have their respective places in their line of work on the list in accord ance with their length of service; that the company will not take back all of the old men in body, but stands ready to take back twenty-five immediately, and as many more afterwards as places can be found for.
 The strikers conclude their statement as follows: This is the result of an- other effort to settle the strike, and we submit to the public if our offer is not a more than fair one, and if it is not about time that the public got after this trolley corporation and made it get off it's high horse. As far as we are con- cerned, in the future overtures will have to come from the trolley company, as we are tired of submitting proposi- tions only to have them turned down."
 The feature of the evening was the mass meeting held in the city hall un- der the auspices of the carpenters and ioiners' union, to protest against the passage of the bill providing for the in- of trades unions, introduced into the legislature by Senator Tracy. The hall was well filled, and the crowd responded enthusiastically to speeches | by such well known men as ex-Senator l William Kennedy of Naugatuck and l Attorney O'Neill Of this city.
 The company and the police feared 1 that the men at the meeting would be aroused to such pitch of enthusiasm 1 that violence would again appear but | the crowd was very orderly.