Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-17


 fine any member $1O who should ride on any car while the company con- tinues unfair to union men.
 At the meeting of the Hill Street 1m- provement club last night the following resolutions were adopted: Resolved That we express our approval of the strike of the local trolleymen, and that we refuse to ride on any car manned by non-union help. and will use our 1n- fuence with others also. Resolved, That we do not patronize any merchant seen riding on the cars during the pres ent trouble. Resolved, That we re quest the mayor to take immediate steps to try and effect a speedy settle ment of the strike"
 Cars covered the same routes to-day as yesterday, and no more, during the forenoon.
 There will be a meeting of the Ice Drivers and Handlers local 316, in Hellmanns hall tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock to take action on the strike.
 High up over Center street is paper banner bearing on one side a picture of a trolley car draped in mourning and underneath the letters c. S. G. On the other side is the inscription we walk" over the initials c. $. G., which stand for Center Street Gang"
 It looks now as if the striking troll ley men cannot fail to carry their point in their fight with the company. The only hope for the company lies in a resort to violence on the part of ir- responsible persons who may be fool. ish enough to do something which would turn public sympathy the other way. The only way the men. can be helped is by not patronizing the cars. To quote the words of one who sway ed large bodies of men a century ago, '"The man who commits crime or re- sorts to violence is an enemy to the cause"
 { A. w. Goldsmith, the truckman who ran afoul of public sentiment by rid ing Oh the trolley cars since the strike,!! squared himself to-day by dumping a load of rubbish on. the West Main street line, blocking the way until it was shoveled off. It was reported to be an accident, but those who saw the upset, say that it was part of a well regulated plan. Anyway the strike sympathizers say they'll call it square with Goldsmith, and hope that South Main street merchants will not put him out of their places any more.
 A number of patrolmen who have been doing night duty have been de- tailed for day duty during the strike. Their beats during the night time are looked after by supernumerary police men. The police are being criticised by sympathizers of the strikers for being too active in protecting the strike breakers and seeing that no violence IS committed, but all sound minded men will have nothing but words of praise for the efficient work of the police force during the present trouble. The troll leymen do not favor violence and there is no reason why their sympathizers should resort to acts of violence. The police have been very active and their presence in number of cases has no doubt prevented violence.
 Two teamsters were arrested this morning charged with obstructing the trolley cars. The first, William Drescher, driver for Ambrose Narr, bottler, of Scoviu street. He was ibailed out.by Patrick Holohan. Wil- liam Kelly, a driver for the Chase Roll ing AA4l Co, was taken into custody by Ou1cer Keegan, on complaint of Gen eral Manager SeweH. The company sent after the team, but the driver was left at the police station until near noon, when D. J. Mahaney furnished bonds in the sum of $10O for his ap- pearance in court Monday morning. While Kelly was in the lookup, and before MT Mahaney appeared on the scene, another man wanted to bail him out but his property being listed in his W1fe's name the chief told him that he would have to see Clerk McMahon A sm1l1ar incident occurred with ref erence to Drescher. The men were very indignant over their arrest and looked upon it as decidedly arbitrary proceeding. Kelly had a double team with heavy load of stock on his way to the factory and Drescher was deliy. ering goods.
 Manager Sewell might have been thinking of something else yesterday morning when he told a Democrat re- porter that there was no truth in the story about one of the new men pull Ing a revolver in Waterville, but just the same 1t looks rather strange to see him quoted elsewhere as admitting the corn and assuring us all that the vic- lous characters have left town. Which version of the case is correct, MT Sew ehl2 You like the papers because they are honest and tell the truth. Why don't you emulate their example? The fact that one of the conductors was carrying concealed weapons, together with his number, was published in the papers. Why didn't the police officers look up that fellow and search him? Is a scamp who comes in from abroad entitled to more con- sideration than one who is always with us? Every good citizen wants to see the law upheld and in order that this may be done neither side should be given any advantage over the oth- er The officers should perform their duty in all cases without considering whether the offender was "scab" or union man, an employe of the trolley company or an indiscreet strike sym pathizer.