Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-08
OUTCOME AWAITED
Of To-Morrow's Meeting Of the
 Striking Trolleymen
WHAT JOHN T. DAILY SAID


 Settle the Strike Buffers and Polish-
 CTS Forced to Withdraw Assessments
 The Daily Statement Promises
 Something Interesting on Monday.
 The meeting of the striking trolley men tomorrow will be the most Inter- esting held since tho strike was called, and the strikers hAe. held many in- teresting and lively meetings in that time. They will not be interfered Wltn III arriving at a conclusion. Mir Daly, president of ,.e Central Labor union, has maintained that the settle. ment should rest with that body as they have been responsible for its support all during the contention But 1t is now given out that the strikers may settle the matter them&elves. @ What will that settlement be? The public in general, including hundreds of union labor men, hope that it will be settled amicably as that is the only way by which the union can be saved. The destruction of the union would give more satisfaction to those ops posed to the existence of such organi- cations than anything else that could happen. The settlement of the strike itself would be a very small thing ta them, in comparison
 A very important prop in the main tenance of the trolley strike has been taken away from it. At their meet. ing Thursday evening, the Bufrerss and Polishers.' one of the largest and strongest of the many labor unions in the city, voted to stop paying their weekly assessment toward the strike fund on account of having strike of their own brethren on their hands, the strike at the Benedict & Burnhalla plant. This assessment averaged $1OU a week. 1t was the largest Iayment paid into the strike fund.
 The strikers executive committees is. sued the following statement this af- ternoon:
 To-day marks the thirtieth week of our strike. We have fought good battle. We are not ashamed of the fight we put up. But without the noble public of Waterbury back of us we would have been defeated. Capital could down our band of eighty men. but it could not make people ride when they felt that that band of eighty men were in the right. We appreciate the good the public has done for us. And, without making any promises, we will simply say that within the next forty- eight hours we may be able to do some thing that will show the public that we appreciated the loyalty displayed since January II last.
 f3s ssTTyl +ns do fa xya 6a-o rvn~..n this thirty weeks battle without any dishonor to the cause of labor. which is the predominating principle ifi Water bury at this time. We hope to keep our good record up to the finish, be it3 near or far Our regret would be great indeed if any brother at this late day should do anything that would bring the blush of shame on the local division of street railway employees or cause us to turn our charter to the wall.
 ITO show what tremendous infius ences have been brought to defeat us by breaking into our ranks, we will now let the public know of the instance when Matt Kerrigan went back. F. lived at the time of the strikes in auguration in the house belonging to the secretary of the brewers union When the strike was on this brewer in- formed Kerrigan that ne would charge him no rent while the strike lasted. And he didn't. For about six months Kerrigan got his rent free and accepted the weekly wages paid by the laborers of Waterbury. Why, then, did he go back on the union and return to the company? We need not suggest re- ply, Miles Booth is said to have been earning S2.75 per day when he deserted our cause. Why did he want to go to work for the company for S2 or lesse Those are some of the things we have been up against.
 ."Our next daily statement will be is> sued on Monday. at which time we will give the public an accurate account of tomorrow important meeting It ought to be the most, interesting state ment yet published of the 210 that have already been printed. Watch for Mon- days statement"
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