Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-21
Striking Trolleymen Still Stand Firm as the Rock
 of Gibraltar. DENY FALSE RUMORS ABOUT MEN WEAKENING
They Call Mr Sewes Attention to Few Inaccuracies His Talks The Messenger Boy of We'll Known Attorney Stands by His Coors-Reused to Ride and Still Wears Button
 Strikers Confer with the Mayor This Afternoon

We would regret having to believe otn- erwise.
 The next meeting of the. strikers will be held as usual at , o'clock this afternoon, when. something may de- velop through the efforts being made by the business mems committee to ef- feet speedy settlement"
 hour between the strikers committee and Mayor E. G. Kilduff in the mayors office.
 The residents of the eastern section of the city are thinking of presenting a petition to the city fathers asking that the trolley company be ordered street. The company doesn't seem to have any use for the tracks for the past ten or twelve days.
 / All day long the cars ran on the North Main and Bank street lines with out hardly carrying passenger. Just after F o'clock two cars went up North Main with just four passenger between them. Two weeks ago at the same hour five or six cars were run on this trip and every car loaded to the gun wales.
 There was no attempt at violence to-day. At noon the streets were ,thronged with factory hands in the vicinity of the factorles on South Main street. But not a voice was heard in anger as the cars passed nor was hand raised against them. The peo- pie are gradually y coming to know that violence will not help the strikers cause, button the contrary, hurt 1t gre viously.
 Joseph Goldstine, one of the force of men brought here by the trolley conn pany to take the place or the strikers. and who, was given the position of watchman at the car barns, was arrest ed to-day during the noon hour py Offi- cer Samuel Walsh for carrying con cealed weapons. He had been in a store in the West End near the car barns purchasing cigars and was re- turning to the barns. His coat was turned up in the back and in the hip pocket of his trousers rested a police mans billy. Officer Walsh saw 1t and immediately placed the man under ar rest He was later released, bail being furnished by Attorney Meigs.
 The strikers have real martyr t0' their cause in the person of Benjamin Hale, aged s15s years. The other party in. the case is Attorney N R. Bronson. Hale was employed by MT Bronson as office boy. Like hundreds of other small boys, when the i've walk but. E tons became fad, that is when tha trolleymen's strike was few days old, young Hale decorated himself with this badge of courage. After a day or two his enthusiasni cooled off to some extent, and he clt down his decorations to one solitary button, but that was big one. Some say it was a regular corker" of button. The young fellow felt as proud as Admiral Dewey or Lord Roberts are generally supposed to feel with their medals of achieve ments of glory in foreign lands. At all events it is certain he would not ex- change his solitary i've walk'' button for good deal. One day he was feel-G ing exceptionally fine about it, and At torney Bronson asked him what he was wearing the button for. so the story goes. The boy said he was In favor of the strikers and hoped they would win. That was what he was wearing the button for. He had no other way of helping the cause along. MT Bronson asked him if he knew that the wearing of it dispIeased him. that it was against his principles. The boy said he did not, and he still wore the button. The next day MT Bronson went out of town, ana the day after, which was yesterday, the clerk gave the boy message to take to Water vile and told him to go on the trolley cars. This got the boys blood up. He ride in the trolley cars? Never! He would either walk or go by train The clerk, a young woman, told him he should take a trolley or not go at all. The boy stood up for shank's mare or the railroad. The result was that the message did not go that day. When Mir Bronson came home the clerk in- formed him of the boys refusal to take the message by trolley. Mir Bronson told him he would be discharged un- less he would conform to the rules of the office. Still the boy refused to take the message by trolley and he was thereupon discharged.