Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-30
Men Who Want to Build Cannot
 Buy Lumber.
REFERENCE CARD THE CAUSE.

Dealers Wish Now They Never
 signed the State Association Laws
 Isn't This a Case for the Citizens.
 Alliance to Look After?
 3 You can't buy a foot of Jumper Ill Waterbury to-day for love or lnolioS , unless it is something that was c1n- J tracted for before the strike. me ln. terstate Builders association eaus S' tha local lumber men in game ol tle snideT and the ny, and while the men With lumber on their hands are squlrH- ( ing and would like to crawl out thfousn the smallest kind of hole, the Qtneu ] follovs are watching them ana InaNlns sure that they live up to the letter " their contract or else come doWh "Asn sn q fine of S25O. The lumber men n,eoe hard fight to keep out or Lhe clutSn oe +be association and didn't supanll ,,ntil +hey saw no way of escape. lne ,,,d n, view in not allowing the lulioeA ,,a,.as to sell during a strike Is 10 mar rass the workmen and annoy the puu,tiS 4,,tS as far as it can De done anu IA ,~at yvav ureyent men from seeklhs ~ AZ. ter their condition by coming sIior for A common cause. II IS Y" p.riah is .Sndit,on of affairs and one Whlch ie ,(,saI,, = couse a lot of annoyance De- {eara f. is stopped. The idea or nall },,,,tI, money in his pocket not peins ahia +o huv common plank Ill Wale
 Ss,n,, nales one feel that whole lol os ,.aonle have too much of the Worlu
 yaaSs and don't know what to do wlel them. The bosses must De se.ts silly, else they never would nave tbanobt of such ridiculous pfoposl- tion. They had the same kuha ol z game on for some time past III t,s bElusS mort but the lumber men got tosetneA last night and decided to sell U an! body that comes along regarulsss o 4he state organization. Ihls Anosn ,., Y, inc bottom out of the reference eaAu M, ,I, ,Iain that something of the same Niiiu will soon occur Ill Waterbury.
 when YOU call at the lumber yards tbav don't tell you that the state or ganization has them by the hip. Ihey are ashamed to say that What they / ao say is that their machinery IS out of ardpr and that on this account tney ara moi doing business. Of course thls ;s simply a cock and bull story to shield the underhanded dolngs of the natlohai 8 ody. and blind man could see When they start to talk about the matter that tbey are not telling tue trntn ana 1lias they feel pretty cheap at the, laea ol being caught i'll such 8 tight boS: le was said to-day that prominent a.. torney has been employed to pry into tba situa+ion and see what can be done toward prosecuting the lumber men for boycotting, but. whether he will De able to get evidence or not is something which cannot be stated at this time It 4s inc most lAre-faced kind of boycott fling and many wonder why the alliance has not got after them before this hour Jof the day.
 There is no need of the state associ- ation watching the local lumber men. They are attending to that themselves, {and the system of spotting is carried on in such systematic way that one cannot 20 into one of the offices With but having somebody on the outside Inquire what you wanted there. The bosses have nothing else to do ana Ill., atead of paying detectives they have /turned themselves into sleuths and ap- 1 near to be making success of It. One ! of them told a reporter to-day that ne never expected to be caught in such a fix: never dreamed that time would come when he would be obliged to turn neoule who had traded with him all their lives out of his place without what they wanted. After saying this lbe remarked that he wanted to impress Ipon the scrbe's mind that their mill Hs not running and that they are not (conducting boycott. The newsman tsaid he wanted to buy about 50 worth lof lumber and wished 1t delivered at his house this afternoon. Why. re pIied the dealer. looking wise, didn't tell you that We are not running to- . day and consequently It would De lm- possible for us to fill your order.
 The agreement the lumber yards have entered into with the state asso- cjation does not prohibit them from selling to factories so that the shops can get anything they want. If the carpenters and others could procure the stock every joiner in town would have iaIl the work he could swing into With out going near the bosses for there IS lots of repairing to be done about town 2and people would take advantage Of the strike to have it attended to 1T they were not blocked by the boycott at the lumber yards
 There was nothing new to report to- day at the headquarters of the carpei- ters and joiners. The men show no signs of yielding and claim that they are out to fight the reference card and have made up their minds not to saw W another board or drive q nail until 1t Is withdrawn. It was said to-day that several loads Of shingles and clap boards were smuggled out of one of the lumber yards last night and taken to different parts of the town where they are wanted by men who are making re- pairs. but the reporter was not able to verify the statement. Not all If any, of the lumber men believe in the boy colt, and 1t may not be wide of the mark to say that many of them would ibe glad to get from under the thumb Of the state association and conduct their business on the old plan. It is / probable that 1t will eventuate in that A inside of q few days.
 Clarence Yale of Oakville has not much love for certain lumber dealers
 saA this city. MT Yale wanted to build
 hencoop this week and yesterday he
 sited the yards of the Waterbury r1 n Y TtNyfI.