Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-14

\ can be found to handle car at all. 1 Regarding the report of Pinkerton men being here, it is well known that strike is not complete unless such report is in circulation. A Pinkerton man, even the redoubtable Bob" Pin kerton himself, would cut no more fig ure in this matter than any other man. A Pinkerton detective cannot operate here unless he is sworn in as special policeman, and to do that is impossible, because it would be a violation of the rules and the charter to make anyone but a resident of the city or town special policeman. The probability is that if there are Pinkerton men here they have come to handle the cars, but they cannot assist the local police force in protecting the peace in case of riot or disturbance.
 Assuming, there are Pinkerton men here, the strikers say that such a course | is precisely what they expected and that such step will do more toward violating the peace than anything else. The men say they are bound to main 1 tain order and depend upon the pubic to help them win their point with the company. If the public fail to stand by them the strike is lost.
 Last evening the Brewery Workers union passed the following resolutions:
 Resolved, That we give our moral and financial support to the striking street railway employees in their strug- gle against capital.
 Resolved. That any member of this iunion seen riding on the cars when run by non-union men will be fined $10 for the first offense and for the second 1 offense he will be suspended from this
 union"
 The Carpenters union and the Anal gamated Society of Engineers and Ma chinists voted to assess their members 15 cents week for the general strike fund which the Central Labor union has established. Every union in the city has voted to stand by the men.
 It is evident Manager Sewell expects
 trouble. He is quoted as saying that
 accommodations for the non union men are being made at the car barn, where
 they will eat and sleep and live as long as they remain here. MT Sewell said these men have been coming to town
 since Sunday morning and that now they are distributed among boarding
 houses. Presuming, therefore, that there are sufficient men here to run 1 the cars, there is no other obstruction
 in the way. All the tracks were cleared of ice yesterday and all the wires dam
 aged. by the storm of Sunday night
 have been repaired, so that there is no further excuse for the trolley company not running the cars. According to
 MT Sewell. among those men who have come to town to take the place of the | strikers are two union men in good
 standing who have come here because
 they will get better pay than what they were getting.
 | MT Sewell is still opposed to arbitra- ton. There is nothing to arbitrate,'' Y he says.
 A few days ago it was reported that
 If the company attempted to run the cars with non-union men the men em- Iployed at the power station would lQuit. There now appears to be some
 basis for this report for this morning it was common talk among the strik-
 CTS. And not only that, but it was
 whispered among them that the em-
 ployes on the Bridgeport lines and out
 side of New Haven as we'll as in Oth-
 CT places would quit work. The men
 say that such a course would be prop
 CT and no more than consistent, for if
 there was trouble in any other district
 of the company's lines it would be ex- Ipected that the local men would sup bort the strikers in those places. They , are all of the one brotherhood and the : rules which have caused the trouble t here apply with the same vigor in all the other districts.
 It is true that the company has be- 3 gun to prepare to run the cars with l non-union men. Yesterday afternoon : teams began trucking lumber to the car barn for the construction of cots 7 for the non-union men, dining tables l and all the absolute necessartes to a 5 domestic equipment
 5 Last evening the first intimation of [ the company's intention to prepare for a siege became known. The omnip- 7 resent optics of the vigilant pickets observed an employe of the company with large can of coffee and a quan- tity of sandwiches. It was supposed
 that he was taking them to the relief of nonlunion men who were being housed somewhere by the, company but 1t turned out they were for the track men, who were working as hard 2 as they possibly could all day and evening. Thus far the strikers have : shown very generous and creditable spirit in the dispute. Here is an in- : stance: Monda1 the company or dered out the repair wagon to fix the damaged lines. The repair men, who !. are union men, thought it would be in- ? consistent in them to work in view of :, the situation. so permission of the : strikers was asked and it was given o without any hesitation. They said . they did not wish to embarrass the I company only within legitimate lines < and by no means to injure their prop : erty or allow it to be injured or run e any risk of injury.