Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-06
We'll Known Business Man Makes
 a Suggestion.
STRIKERS ALWAYS READY.

Committee as This Man Suggests
 Very Little Violence and Very Little
 Light Last Night Strikers Deny
 Stories About Rocks on Track and
 Tell Why Car Was Related.
 Viewed from the road it might ap- SDar that all efforts to settle the strike By arbitration have been abandoned, but from Information gathered to-day this is far from the facts. On the con trary, it seems Lat the public has now got to a point where the trouble is considered something which affects more than the trolley company and the strikers, and that plans are now under way for the appointment of another committee with view to seeing what can be done in this direction. No mat ter how empnatically this may be de- nounced as untrue, the Democrat is 1n receipt of information which variants thestatementt that such move Is under way, but what it will amount to IS something which cannot be stated at tiis time. The idea is to unite all ele- ments in the community in a protest against continuance of the strike and in this way force both parties to yield something in order to bridge the chasm and let business go on as usual. The proposition is for the trolleymen to appoint a committee of three to meet committee of a similar num- Der from the company and let the two committees name the seventh man, the committee then to pass upon the merits of the case with an understand ing beforehand that the decision shall be final and that both parties shall abide by it. Those who are back of this plan claim that the public has a right to ask this much from the trolley company and they feel that in case the local trolleymen might not be willing to agree to this way out of the diff culty that the national executive would force them to it.''
 Things were quiet in trolley matters last night, nothing being reported in the way of shooting, stone throwing or hOld-ups. The stories regarding shoot ing at people on the cars, whether true or false, must have kept nearly every body off the cars, fewer people riding than on any evening since the strike started. Some of the lights burned and more of them were as dark as ever. It was said to-day that the company is making an effort to secure the names of parties who are said to be going about among the merchants and others requesting people not to ride on the cars, with view to having them prose cuted on a charge of intimidation. It will he pretty hard 10 get evidence sufficient to convict anybody of this business. 1t is said that no such work is being done and whether it is or not merchants will be rather backward about appearing in court about such matters. But perhaps there is no more truth in this than in some of the stories relative to shooting at deputies.
 People thought scab was about as of- fensive an epithet as could be hurled at patrons of the cars, but from all ac- counts anything else is just as bad. In a spirit of fun-what else could one say of it-some of the shop hands have been calling girls who patronize the caged cars chickens, and while many laughed at it at the outset still 1t seems to have become annoying, and now itds about all ones life is worth in some of the shops to say "Chicll, chick" to the person on the next bench. that is. provided the girl happens to be enc who rides in the cars. Of course they didn't stop at calling them chick ems, but carried it so far as to refer to them by name of different breeds of fowls. so that pretty soon every patron of the cars was known as some particu- lar kind of hen. Yesterday somebody referred to an employe of one of the factories as Plymouth Rock" and she became so angry over 1t that 1t came near ending in hair-pulling match. When all this trouble is over people will wonder why they could their neighbors about such things. The strikers are not doing any of this kind of business themselves and it is gen orally believed that their sympathizers who indulge in it hurt rather than help the cause they wish to serve. If you want to win girls over to your way of thinking you will have to resort to some other kind of tactics besides abuse. The average young woman is full of resolution and the moro you try to coerce her into doing what her mind tells her is not right the stronger she will resist The girls are making big sacrifices for the strikers and if a few of them cannot see this question in the same light as others do it is not fair te wound their feelings about it. Nc doubt most of these jocose remarks are used in Jest. but even so it should bf remembered that conduct of this kind can be carried too far and result in lots Of trouble without doing any good.
 The strikers executive committee this afternoon issued the following its 10th statement:
 We are of the honest opinion that The trolley company has not men in its employ who are capable of loolzina after the mechanical portion of the cars. and who cause considerable trou- b1e to these parts by being unable tc handle the cars in scientific manner The result is that accidents are often and sometimes serious. But the com pany has a faculty of getting thines into the papers which tend to lead the public to believe that these acts are fha f.nsu1ts of 1awIeSsness-nO of uool