Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-23
THE DAILY STATEMENT,
Strikers Say the Company Has Los
 More Than the S1OO,OOO.

Strikers Say the Company Has Lost
 More Than the $1OOO0O.
 The strikers executive committee issued their 103rd daily statement to- day as follows:
 Every man in our union is stand ing to-day as firmly as at any time since our strike. and this is true not withstanding the most strenuous eff forts of the company to induce even a single one to go back and desert our cause.
 Our statement of yesterday in which we gave out the true feelings of the old strike breakers toward the Waterbury men who have seen fit to take places offered them by the conn pany has been confirmed by several of the strike breakers who have ap- preached our men with the information that they felt just as our statement of yesterday indicated. "We don't speak ito Miller at all" said one of the old strike breakers last night, land if he goes to give us any orders, we laugh at him. We think no more of the other Waterbury fellows who are be- ing broken in than we do of Miller" '.It. may appear snap to those local fellows just now,r said another of the strike breakers, "but when they have to go onto car and shift for them selves, they will find out that a troll 1eymans life is not all confined to standing on platform and looking wise There is plenty of hard work and responsibility, which is deserving of good wages That is just the way our band of eighty men felt when l they went out, many of them having served their employers faithfully for l years.
 ''For the information of our home staying friends who depend upon the 1 press solely for Information and who 1 seldom see the cars and therefore can not judge how they are being patron 1 ized, we will state that we are relia- 1 bly informed that the company has al ready lost considerably more than l S1OO,OOO, and it is losing hundreds of dollars a day now. As an instance of this, last Sunday thousands of peo- pie witnessed a ball game on the Wa. tertown road. Formerly cars were 1 sent up in rows of six or eight to car l " the crowds to and from the game 1 Not an extra car was used on Sunday I and everybody walked to and from l the fiefd Some time ago the general manager announced that the company's l patronage had crept up to 65 per cen1 l of it's old record. Yesterday the pa pers gave out that B 1-3 per cent o1 the old record were riding. This proves l that the patronage is decreasing rath
 CT than increasing. Two or three ol 1 half a dozen crowded cars at noon ol
 supper time will pay no dividends.
 On May next at Pittsburg, Pa, tht
 national convention of our association
 consisting of representative trolleyme1
 from all over the country, will meet
 The most important matter to conn
 up for discussion at that time will bt
 the matter of purchasing large stocl
 of automobiles to be used by striker
 in such cases as we have experienced here in Waterbury. We feel confiden
 in stating that in case the strike con
 tinues until after this convention, w
 will shortly thereafter have a sufficien
 equipment of automobiles to run ove every lime in the city and accommo
 date the entire riding public
 ''Buses to Father Traynor's fair vii . leave the center at o'clock tonight ; Tomorrow night buses will leave tn
 center for Grange hall at S:06 and a
 9:15 and will return to the center af ] tar the festivities are oyer''