The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-10
WATERBURY STRIKE ENDED
4 SETTLEMENT REACHED YES-
 TERDAY AFTERNOON.

and Those Tried for Assauit-Great
 Demonstration on Announcement of
 Settlement = -Confiloting Statements
 Made by Manager seweli aud the
 Union Regarding Concessions.
 Waterbury. Aug. 9.-The strike of
 trolleymen which began thirty weeks
 ago to-day was settled this afternoon,
 the Connecticut Railway & Lighting company agreeing to take back part of the strikers at once at the old wages,
 to give employment to the others as
 soon as practicable and to treat with
 a committee from the men regarding future grievances. The announcement of the settlement led to a general pub- lie demonstration of joy throughout the
 city, and the excitement which pre- vailed was almost equal to that which attended the riot early in the strike which led to the calling out of the state militia.
 The settlement followed negotiations which have lately been conducted be- tween General Manager SeWall of the railway company and the trolleymens s executive committee. At 12 o'clock to- day the entire body of men who orig inally went on strike. about eighty in number, met at the hall of the Central Labor union and considered propo-
 sition which had been sent by the gen. eral manager. By this proposition the company agreed to take back sixteen of the old men at the old wages at once; to put fourteen more men on the payroll at the same wages, and to give the remainder employment as soon as
 places could be found for them, with
 the exception of ex-President Barrett of the union, Conductor Kelly, and the eight strikers who were tried and ac- quilted of the charge of being implicat- ed in the assault on a non-union con- ductor and motorman in Waterville. Barrett and Kelly are the two men, whose discharge from the service of the road was one of the causes leading to the strike, and for whose reinstatement the strikers held out stubbornly for many weeks.
 { In the proposition of General Man ager Sewall it was agreed also that the injunction proceedings brought several months ago by the company tying up all the money of many of the unions of the city in the banks, should be lift-g ed; that an increase of wages should be granted the men working at the car barns and on snow blows: that the conductors and motormen should be given ten-hour working day with the privilege of doing it within a lime limit of twelve hours. that all should get extra pay for overtime; and that the management would receive q com mittee of the men for the adjustment of future grievances as they may arise.
 The proposition was unanimously ac- cepted by the union. Immediately af-. terward the executive committee of the Central Labor union. which met in a room. formally declared the trolley strike off, thus relieving other unions in the city of the obliga- tion to lend assistance to the strikers and by declining to ride on the cars.
 There was a crowd of 1000 in front of the Central Labor Union hall await ing news of the action of the trolley men and as soon as the announcement was made that the strike was off, a cheer went uD from 1000 threats, and the throng scattered to carry the well. come story to all parts of the city.
 General Manager Sewall received in formation of the action of the union by telephone from the Central Labor Union hall. and he at once sent two cars to the center of the city, where the entire body of returning strikers board ed them. The superintendent of the. line was present and taking the control- Ter handles from the non-union motor men of the two cars, he turned them over to President Murnane of the troll leynlen's union and Cornelius Morgan of the strikers executive committee. Amid a cheer from the 5000 people gathered in the square, these two men took charge of the cars and with all the union men on board started on tour of the city. They travelled over every line in the city and suburbs, going to Waterville, Naugatuck, Brooklyn and other places. The first trip of the two cars with their loads of ex-strikers was through North Willow street, one of the finest sections of the city. The news of tlse strike settlement had preceded them and from many residences flags were waving, while all along the line there were vocal demonstrations of ap- proval. When the cars reached ths home of General Manager Sewall, which is on that line, the general man ager appeared on the verandah and waved his hat He was given cheer from the ears. Shortly afterward an axle on one of the care broke, but another car was soon supplied and the trip of the union was continued. Every street through which they passed was lined with cheering crowds, and the was intense. With the ex- ception of the riot which marked the early days of the strike, such excite ment has never been known in the streets of Waterbury. In the suburbs the same conditions prevailed. Nauga- tuck citizens had celebration when the cars appeared there, and a number of people rode back to the city from that point roosting on the tops of the cars.
 Since the time when the presence of the militia enabled the company to run the cars with non-union men, the ser- vice on all the lines running into Wa terbury has been kept up, 2and there has been a partial restoration of the but a considerable part Of