Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-27
Strikers Issue Another Statement t--Deny Acts of
 LaWleSSilesS
BUSINESS MEN PASS ANTI-BOYCOTT RESOLUTIONS
Strikers Down All Attempts at Boycott and lntimi
 dation--Wil Appoint Committee to Investigate All Such Cases Brought to Their Attention.

E Cases Brought to k The strikers executive committee gave out the following statement this afternoon:
 F "The situation on this, our seven ! teenth day out, remains practically un- changed, so far as the two interested parties getting together is concerned. At the meetings held yesterday after noon at 5 o'clock and this morning at l 10 o'clock, every man responded vigor- ously to the roll call. An unusually large number of cash contributions has been received within the past two l days, which will be duly acknowledged l by our secretary and the Central Labor l union later.
 We are getting so used to mailing 1 false stories which we believe are in- l spired by our former employers that l the day seems lacking in something when we are not called upon to do l something in that line. This morning l the papers came out with scare heads l telling of an outrageous piece of van- dalism on the Waterville line, where by car was thrown from the track by boulders placed thereon presumably l by ourselves or friends of our cause. l That story We condemn as q falsehood concocted solely for the purpose, in l our opinion, of injuring our cause by turning public sentiment against us. We investigated that accident, how ever, with the result that we found that the motorman lost control of his car, despite the efforts of both himself and the conductor to control it with the brakes. The car struck McCon- nell's curve with such force that an a yrla what had happened the crew attempt l ed to continue the trip and succeeded in practically pulling the car to pieces. Our side of this accident would not look well in the public press, thought the company, and so this morning you l were treated to assenSational story of I an attempt to wreck car. One of our 1 strikers had ar axle break in a sim-
 liar manner near Boulder grove some time ago, but being capable, stopped the car fnstantly. < Had last nights ac. ctdent occurred at the latter point, the I car, crew and occupants, if there were any, would now be lying in the center 4 nefsthe sNaugatuck river at Piatt's Mills
 The accident last night occurred about l o'clock. It is the second accident at this point since the strike began. l Although in its infancy, our 'bus line IS success. In a day or tSvo we expect to have things running in first class schedule time. Buses will leave I for Exchange place from Forest park,
 Hellmann's brewery, Silver street and
 smith < Griggs's factory at 6:3O a- m.
 to-morruw. At noon three buses will \ leave Benedict & Burnham's. going up
 North Main, East Main and West Main
 streets as far as they have passengers.
 At 6 o'clock P. ms buses will leave
 Benedict < Burnhams for North Main street and for Waterville, leaving the
 center for the latter place at 6:15.
 Tetre's bus GindepeDdent). will leave
 the center for OakviHe at 6:15 D. m.
 The fare to Oakvil1e will be 10 cents
 on all other lines, 5 cents.
 We hereby wish to extend our sim .cere thanks to Messrs A. w. Castle,
 Charles D. Nye, F. o. Peabody, Robert T 5. Ross and w. F. Jarrett, the business
 mems committee, for the interest they
 manifested in our cause and for the fair and favorable report which they made to the Business M ems association last evening. Following as it does the
 vindication rendered us by the clergy mems committee, we feel greatly en- ocuraged and more determined to fight with the belief that right will win the struggle ultimately.
 We have been reading with inter- est Colonel Burpee's legal quotations concerning boycotts. intmidations, etc. A little Of the colonel's quotations con corning the sprinkfIng of sand and salt 1 ln the public streets, and concerning the speeding of cars at thirty -miles-an- hour clip might also prove of public | interest at this time.
 eThe secretary of the executive com mittee this afternoon received the fol lowing resolutions from the Business | Mems association, which will be pre- l sented for action at this afternoons s meeting, at : o'clock:
 Whereas, The conductors and motor men formerly employed bv the Con- necticut Railway and Lighting com pany are now on strike and said strike may be indefinitely prolonged, and
 Whereas, There have been some few reports of intimidations, boycottings and threatened boycottings. growing out of the strike, against certain indi- l viduals and business houses not parties to the dispute, and
 Whereas, We consider all such in- inhalation. boycottings and threatened hoycottings as dangerous invasions of individual rights and liberties and H. legal and unjust, and
 Whereas, We believe that i'll the continuance of said intimidations. boy cottings and threatened boycottings, the good name of the community, the peace of its citizens and the welfare of all its business interests are seri- ously threatened, and the best inter- est of all honest labor greatly injured thereby, therefore be it
 Resolved, That we as members of the Waterbury Business Mems associ- ation and as citizens of this community do wholly condemn all said intimida- tons, boycottings and threats as in- vasions of our rights and of the rights of all members of the community against whom said acts are employed, and be it further
 Resolved, That we do hereby agree to do. all in our power to discounte- nance and prevent all like intimida- tions, and boycottings and to carry out this purpose to appoint a committee whose duty it shall be to investigate