Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-15
Strikers Remain Firm And Every Man Answered.
 Roll Call This Morning.
THANK PUBLIC FOR NOT RIDING ON THE CARS
Health Officer Nmarn Summoned to the at Break Neck Specd-Report Circulated That Nen.Unien Men Had Smallpox Driver of OK Team Stopped s the Servce-Meeting at Power Heuse-
 Sewel says was net Directors Meeting

l The health officer said he examined Ind
 place where the men are quartered and
 noticed nothing that called for iaaterfer-
 enee on his part.
 The men held their usual morning
 meeting at 10 o'clock. All hands re-
 ported and appeared to be content with.
 the progress of the situation. There
 were many visitors present from out
 of town, who all came with promises,
 of moral and financial support: They also prepared statement which can De found printed elsewhere.
 MT SewelI said this forenoon that
 cars would be running on the East
 Main street line this afternoon. He had not kept his word up to 2 o'clock.
 It IS said that about twenty desef4. Iions m all from the HeHsuHieH ranks have taken place.
 There came near being collision ilA. Waterville this morning af what fha men call 'tMcConnell's curve.' Super-. 1ntendent Wales was in control of ono. car and Inspector MisseI the other: There IS long switch at this point and Doth cars crossed onto 1t about tlf1, l same time. Thus they met within a LOOT of each other when each supposed me other was on his proper track. Ik IS against the rules to get on the sjti4 Ing together and had any fnotorrna aff committed himself as the inspector and, the superintendent did this merning l,a. would be immediately dismissed.
 This afternoon Judge Lowe, Prose cutting Agent Pierce and Judge Root stood with the crowd at the corner of Exchange place and West Main Street. ana commenced to stump, each other 1o nave ride on the trolley cars.l Judge Root offered to bet MT Pierce, SlOe that he "dassent" get on, but the prosecuting agent called the bluff and saad ne would gladly take ride for much less than that. Judge Lowe was. then dared to ride, and while he s1idr,st say he would or he wouIdr,'t. he aof out of 1t by asking the crowd aro,,nd to Hodson's. The invitation was ae. cepted anu when the probate f,,daa saw this he thrust his hand into hla pocket and wanted to borrow IaIf collar from somebody. adding that 11a didnr nave a cent about him. None. or the party went out on the car and what was worse. Judge Lowe failed to ind anybody willing to loan him 50 cents. and for the first time in his life ne was obliged sto 1talce water. Nrr Sewell was present while the ssroyy,s was on and stuck up for Attornavs Pierce like a little man. West Main street was the scene off excitement for while this afternoo,, <, Right In front of car1roing wesf VA . < q team of oxen. The driver got ir1td an altercation with the non-union rno-} torman as to who owned the streefs { anyway, the people or the corpnn,,x.f After this argument 1t occurred to the OK driver that he had not smoked In F half an hour. He started to light hiA pipe, but all his matches were damn and as he knew he could not keep uu { with his team he stopped it. After 1()t minutes spent in trying to light tha!' pipe with obdurate matches, tha, driver found something wrong with the , harness which took five minutes mora to adjust. Then he started up his team but they would not move They were never before so obstinate Meanwhiie q large crowd had gathered and tLings became interesting for the motorman . and conductor. At last there was DO further excuse for the OK team being on the track and the driver took them off with apparent great difficulty. ( Such obstinate cattle. he said, he never z saw before.
 There were rumors floating around to-day that the members of the Busk ness Mems association would discuss the local strike at the meeting of the association tomorrow and that son1g of the members proposed to offer a vote requesting the company and the trol- leymen to submit to arbitration their differences. When President w. L.. Hall was asked in regard to the mat. ter he said that he had not heard that the strike would be discussed, but 1t was as liable to be discussed as any, other question. As to arbitration. he said that he considered that a reason able way of settling the strike and he saw no reason why the trouble between the men and company should not be settled in that way, all the more so be- cause the relations between both have been very friendly up to this time.
 The strikers are keeping list of all persons riding on the cars. They in, tend to keep this up until the differ. ence is adjusted.
 The following communication wax rec1ved yesterday from a trollevman,g union in Philadelphja:
 Dear Sir-I have just sent vol, T telegram about number of scabs that are coming to your city to work on the trolley lines. They are being engared at 305 Arch street. this city, and the agent is telling them that it is a scab iob.and offers them $2.50 per dav.free transportation and weeks free board We are trying to get some of our union men to take the trip at the expense of the company for the fun of the thing. We do not know now if they will go z
 This is taken to mean that if .ths company can afford to pay men igno- rant of the work, they can afford to pay men well informed in it; that it Is not increase of wage forms the view point of the company, but the purpose of crushing the union. This, therefore. bears out the strikers presumption that 1t was because of the discharged mems association with the union, not because of their failing to repoxs, thaAs,