Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-19
Conference Saturday Night Ended In Strikers Being
 More Determined Than Ever
SEWELL STILL REFUSES TO TAKE BACK BARRETT
A Number of Other Organizations Passed Resolutions Sympathy and Assistance-Stikers Received Their First Pay Yesterday from Labor Contributons-Big Sa e of Buttons
 Business Mems Committee Meet To-Day.

strike may continue, for the beneht or the strikers, and any member riding on the cars of this company during such time shall be fined $5 for the first or fense, and suspended, expelled or fined such sum as the union may deem prop CT for the second offense; and be it Resolved, That each member of this
 union shall deem it a duty to report the name of any member of this or any other union seen riding on any trolley car while the strike continues, and
 members of other unions are requested to notify this union of any such viola l tiOn."
 The local Bakers and Confectioners'
 union passed the following resolutions
 at q meeting yesterday:
 Resolved That we assist the trolley
 men as long as the strike exists.
 Resolved, That any member riding
 on trolley car during the strike shall be expelled from our union, and Resolved, That we pay liberally in support of the strikers if it last all sum- mer." L .. n+ts.t 1 It is estimated that the company's loss in receipts alone since the strike
 began amounts to about $60O day.
 Painters and Decorators union will hold a special meeting tonight in Franco-American hall to take action on the strike situation. .. Members of New York unions em- ployed on the Bank street buildings by the Metropolitan Fire Roofing Go, took
 up collection Saturday night in aid
 of the strikers. G-
 |. The Irish-American Athletic associa- l ton, at a largely attended meeting yes terday, unanimously voted to extend it's sympathy to the strikers and also I voted to expel any member from the club that will ride on the cars while l the strike is on. In Saturdays issue of the Democrat l the reference to the Iron Holders vote to subscribe to the strike fund should have been twenty-five cents per member instead of five cents per
 1nemL CT. for the first week. md fifteen
 cents per member during the strike.
 The French-American Independent political club, at-a meeting held yester- day, indorsed the action of the strikers
 and voted financial support, and also that any member of the club found | riding on the cars during the. strike shall be fined $1O and a second time shall cause his expulsion. In Oakville, the small. boys applied Einstead of stoned the cars. They climbed the trolley poles and swayed the Eires and in this way caused great l annoyance by, throwing the trolley poles. off the wires. This is new way
 of causing trouble and it was highly | Successful .. ,s~ s'sr .,, ,a~-.'. | The business mems committee this
 morning held a long conference with l Manager SeweH and Colonel Burpee | in. the latter's office. The conference
 lasted the greater part of the fore
 noon. At times the discussion ran
 high, but on the whole it was very | quiet. By agreement mo statement was given out. U It was decided to
 have the business mems comr AN tee re-
 port to the strikers committee. l At a regular meeting of the Water I bury Theatrical Stage Employees, held l Sunday evening, January IS, the strike of the trolleymen was unanimously 1 indorsed. It was voted to assist the 1 strikers both morally and financially,
 and an assessment of 15 cents weekly l for each member in the local was laid ! so long as the strike shall last. Voted
 that every member of the local who
 shall assist the Connecticut Railway
 and Lighting Go against the strikers or
 shall ride on car during the strike | shall be fined $25.
 Yesterday the strikers received their
 pay. All of the unions that voted to
 subscribe to the strike fund, and that was every one of them in the city
 paid their subscriptions to the Central | J,oh o1 of
 their number as paymaster. Each
 man was paid at the rate of $2 day.
 or 20 cents an hour for ten hour day
 This was 10 cents day less than 31
 per cent of them were paid by the
 company and IS cents more than IT
 per cent were paid. The other 52 per
 cent were paid at the rate they were
 paid yesterday, according to the fig ures given out for publication by Man
 ager Sewell last week.
 At the o'clock service at St Francis
 Xavier's church yesterday morning
 Father Fleming gave a short talk on
 the local strike, in the course of which
 he said that while doing all in their power to assist the men, people
 must bear in mind that the law must be sl1Dheld, and that anyone who thinks | lAS 1S AClpllS luC SIIIhcIS Dy ISSUILlIIS
 to violence Is decefving himself. He
 believed it a duty for the public to in
 quire into such questions, see which
 was right and then stand for justice
 and fair play, no matter which side it l helps or flinders. He wanted parents
 to be on the lookout for their boys dur l ing thi stime when youngster so easily get into trouble. Father Fleming's re- marks were regarded as very warm 1 indorsement of the workmen's posi-
 tion in the strike and contained lot
 of common sense advice to sympa
 thiZers who have no faith in moral
 suasion in time of war If all would
 act upon Father .Fleming's advice there
 wouldn't be much trouble keepipg the
 neace. nor would it take long to make
 the trolley company sensible of the fact l 1t cannot ride rough shod over it's heln
 and at the same time do q profitable l business with the public.