Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-30
Attorney Byne Appears at Strikers Meeting With Proposition That
 He Thought Might Lead to Settlement SAYS HE DIDN'T APPEAR FOR THE TROLLEY COMPANY.
Proposition RecdThe Men Feel That Their Demand Not RedeSHles Daily Statement and dve
 Manage scwen a Pointer About His New Hired Help

The executive committee of the strikers to-day issued the following re- port:
 This is the twentieth day of our strike, with no sign in view of the com- pany Or the strikers getting any closer together. Roll calls find our men promptly at their posts with unapated determination that they are lighting Tor justice and to pursue the course all ready mapped out The desertlon or Miller has acted as a StimMant ratnef than as depression.
 speaking of Miller, we notice he had the audacity to come out in q pup lie statement trying to square h1mseh for the position he took as a, deserter. He says in three weeks he received but $14, which was not sufficient to SuppoN himself and family. As this is the | twentieth day of the strike, it will be seen that we have not yet been out three weeks. Of course it was also un- derstood that the first week out we would receive no pay. From this IL will be seen that MiAers statements are false. We should also think that person who performed the despicable operation that Miller did in deserting l the ranks of his fellow workers during 1 a crucial test of their strength would hide his face in shame rather than come out publicly and state that he had taken one cent from the fund raised by brother organizations to as- sist them in their battle. Is it not I strange that out of eighty men on strike, nobody found fault with his l weekly allowance except Deserter Mill 1 Ter, and there are some of us with fam l flies six times the size of his? We will simply add that after each pay 1 day we have had a good balance left 1 over and above our salary list.
 We have been asked time and again l within the past few days what our po- l sition was in relation to our Bridgeport ] brethren and what they of the Park city were doing toward coming out for l us in q sympathetic strike All we have to say is that we have not asked the Bridgeport trolleymeI, directly or l indirectly, for moral or financial aid. l Should we desire it, we would have to l apply through the national organiza- tion, of which Bridgeport and Water l bury are merely local divisions.
 We wish once more to sincerely thank the public for the unlimited sup port they are rendering us by walking. When people will come out of a the- ater into the rain, as they did last night at Polls, and refuse to take advantage l Of the cars awaiting there, and walk home instead, we feel greatly encour- aged and very thankful. We have been warned by the coInpanys coun- sel, by legal quotations given the press 4 aia7er nd if iT Q tion. There are people now riding on the cars who would walk were they not in possession of generous allow ance of free tickets. If the giving out of these tickets by shop foremen to those employed by them is not one form of coercion and intimidation, we fail to know the meaning of those two I words. We also know of other forms of intimidation that are not being en1- I ployed by Us but by the company
 which may prove interesting reading later
 tSEhe car arriving in Exchange place
 at 1:07 this afternoon from South
 Main street Brought in with it a strike
 breaking conductor who was so intox
 icated that he had to be relieved. h
 order to hide him from the public he
 was tucked away inside the car. Ii
 would not do to scare away the few
 who do ride by letting them see thai
 their lives had been in the keeping o1
 an intoxicated trolleyman, hence the
 tucking away. We pointed out this in
 cident to well known business mar
 and newspaper reporter. however, 1T
 order to prevent contradiction of oul
 statement concerning it by the com
 pany.
 Tt Is interesting to account for tht
 manner in which some of the car win
 dows have been broken A young mar
 and woman were walking along one ot
 the streets few nights ago when E
 fresh motor1nan stuck out his head a.
 the car rolled along and shouted: ssGiv.
 her squeeze for me, old man. I took the young man addressed abou
 one second to find a cobble, which h, sent with good aim through two of tn.
 car windows. We know of other in
 stances where the windows have beer broken by the strike-breakers them
 selves in changing the street signs o1
 the cars with the pole used for tha purpose, Yet Colonel Burpee, the com
 pany's counsel, claims the city vii
 have to pay for all that damage. I
 looks as if the company is trying f,
 make a grand stand play for sympa thy from the public, and the public ap
 pears to he pretty wise so far
 ''The overland stage line is doing
 rushing business Extra accommoda , tons will be here for use tomorrow and Sunday. Several Sunday after noon bus Uarties are now in course O formation"
 The conduct of a young man on ont
 of the cars passing through Exchang
 place at noon yesterday was re
 marked by many as deserving the at tention of the police. This youn , man stood on the front platform call
 ing the attention of everybody to him { self by shouting to those he knew ol
 the sidewalk to ride with him. 4 great many remarked that had he beer on the sidewalk and shouted to thosl
 on the car to walk with him he wouI