Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-06
THE PROPOSITION
Daily Statement Gives the In-
 side Facts.
IT WAS DEFEATED 5s TO 0

IT WAS DEFEATED 53 TO 0
 Manager sewen Says He Has No Places for Union Men-The Ex-T,rol- leymen Are Still Union Men-And Thus Another Chance to Settle the Long Drawn Out Strike Has Been Dashed to Pieces.
 The strikers executive committee fs-
 sued their firth daily statement this
 afternoon, as follows:
 Since we submitted our last state
 ment to the public, there have been.
 many important events in our strike.
 Rumors have been floating about for the past forty eight hours that the com
 pany was about to submit a proposi-
 ton, despite the published statement
 Ill this mornings paper wherein one of the omcials is quoted as saying the
 company had submitted no proposition.
 The proposition was presented to our
 new president, Brother Murnan. hv; General Manager Sewell. And wa
 want the public of Waterbury to read
 just what that proposition was and
 then in all fairness ask what they
 would have done with it were they in our positions. Here it is: The com
 pany would take back thirty of the
 strikers, they to select eight and we
 select p. The eight men selected by the company would be put to work in Waterbury. The 9 selected by the
 men would be shipped out of town to
 work on lines for the company where there was no strike. When the com
 pany saw fit or so desired, those .
 men would be brought back
 here in their native city Further than that, the cona- pany would take back 13 more men by
 the first of August, making 43 men in all The company refused to consider l the eight men who were arrested In
 connection with the Waterville assault
 and declared innocent by the superior court The company also refused point blank to consider Brothers Barrett. Kelly or Maloney, although previous | ly they appeared very anxious to get the latter brother to go back. To csin the climax of this propositiOn Mr Sew~ ell informed us that under no co1ltai4 tion would he consider the men he of-s
 fered to take back as union nen:
 that he would have no union men in his employ now or hereafter. and that l if we decided to accept the proposition submitted. we must apply as indfvid- | uals for work, and we were not to 10
 back representing the union undesa which we are organized. In other
 words, we must chop up our charter and consider our organization a thing
 passed out of existence. In considera tion of our accepting this liberal (?1 offer of the Connecticut Railway e Lighting Go, MT SeweiI promised to. | have the injunction now pending in the superior court dissolved, and also
 promised to have the attachments on
 the union money in the banks released We think it hardly necessary to com | ment on this proposition in our state- | ment. All we+ask is to have the fair minded public plr rce themselves in our
 shoes and ask themselves what they would do in such case The proOo- sition was submitted by Brother Mur4 1 nan to a meeting held at o'clock yes terday afternoon, at which 5 members ! were in attendance.
 Not a favorable expression was heard concerning thesp esproposition. while yfgorous speeches were made deplor-
 ing it. A rising vote was finally
 called for and B men stood up and voted to reject the proposition. There
 was the greatest enthusiasm and on every face was depicted the deternin-
 atfon that rather than accept such an offer any man there would rather take to the pick and shovel or perform the
 most strenuous kind of work that al hu1man being is capable of performing Many felt that tine proposition would, be of an encouraging mature and -therei
 were some who became so confident that the strike would be declared off that they had organized trolley par ties. When the proposition was read,
 however, these joyful feelings van-1 ished quickly, being firstreplaced with the sting of insult and afterwards by increased determination to do or die.' sgThat our friends are sticking loy- ally to US was newer better illustrated than on Fourth of July night, when a crowd of NangatlIck young people ar@ rived here from Hartford only to find no railroad accommo odations by which they could get home One fellow sug
 gested that he guessed they would be
 obliged to take the tro4ey, even.
 against their will, and he nearly lost
 his girl by making the remark The
 crowd wouldn't listen to Ssuch4a Sugges-
 tion and stood at the corner of South
 Main and Grand streets delfbera ting
 They had just decided to walk, when
 some of our men. learning of the incf-
 dent procured bus accommod oddtdons
 and carried them to Nangatuck amid
 the greatest enthusiasm. There were
 seventy in the party, which was ac-
 companied by a drum Corps"
 SHOT BY DRUNKEN MINER.