Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-25

work for the company under the pres ent conditions.
 MANY IDLE IN NEW YORK.
 New York, May 25.-There are 165,- 900 idle men in New York city, not wfthstanding the fact that every line of business Is booming in the city. These men but for strikes, lockouts and dissensions among rival labor unions would be earning a total of $66O,O00 day or $3,960,000 a week.
 Not only is every penny of this stu pendous sum lost to them, but indus tries and firms representing a capital ization of 550,000O00 are at a stand still, with a consequent loss of profits.
 The trade paralysis here has reached stage more extensive than any here tofOre known, even during periods of great industrial depression.
 Most of the workmen are idle not for any act of their individual unions, but for the acts of other unions or be- cause of the recent decision of the em- ployers to stand together and fight the demands of one union by throwing the workmen of many unions into idleness.
 The strikers executive committee is- sued the following statement this af- kernoon:
 "Once more-for the 135th time-we are out with our daily statement to the public.
 While we regret that one of our Danish-American citizens has been dis pleased at a quotation in our state rnent that there was something rotten in Denmark" we cannot but feel that his displeasure is something bordering on the ludicrous. The quotation re- ferred to, as most everybody knows, Is taken from the writings of the i'm mortal Shakespeare, and means noth- ing detrimental to the good name of Denmark. His satanic majesty might just as we'll ascend from his fiery par Tor and resent the time-worn expres- sion that the devils in New Jersey
 Saturday evenings American has an Interview with Colonel Burpee, in which. he stated that the company would not take back 25 of the strik- CTS as has been suggested by person representing the former employees. We wish to state that nobody had any authority to tell the colonel that 9 of our men would go back. and if any body made any such offer to him ol any other official; he had no right te do so.
 Manager Sewe1l made a point in ar interview on Saturday that the public can well make use of. "We do moi propose to have our business affairs run by men living in Detroit he says meaning our national officers. That's where the shoe pinches. Managel Sewell wants nothing to do with oul national officers. who belong in De troit. What if the public should rist up and say that it was sick and tired of the present situation here and would have nothing further to do with tht Connecticut Railway and Lighting Go an alien corporation which although practically owning this good old state is controlled almost entirely by 'lhel of Philadelphia Manager Sewell ha nothing to say about the foreigners who scooped in these valuable stat, franchises, but the idea of the heat men of our organization going to hin in our interests when they live out o town-is altogether too much for hin to stand
 Manager Sewell also tries to throy q little taffy to the Bridgeport mer chants. by asking them to emulate Wa ferbury business men. Judging iron the We Walk signs displayed in tn Bridgeport stores however, we imagin the Park City merchants have gon over their books and figured out th amounts received from the laborin, classes down there and also the sum received each year from the owners o the grab-all corporation which Is will ing to spend $100.00O in strike-breakin eighty men rather than give then enough to afford the men and thei families q decent living If the com pany thought for a minute that it wa in the right in this strike business does the public suppose for minut that it would be afraid to leave the sci clement of these difficulties to an arb tration committee of practically it own selection of disinterested, reputs able citizens? Just think it over.
 "0ne of the deputy sheriffs employe to keep the strikers and their sympatt izers in good order and decency wa arrested for drunkenness and fined i Bridgeport last week. Such a thin did not occur in Waterbury during tn visit of the deputy sheriffs, but wasn't the fault of the deputies.
 ssOnce more we want to express the public the appreciation we feel fo the unlimiaed support rendered since the strike began We want als to assure the public that we are stl