Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-02
As YOU LIKE IT
bme Stray Leaves From a Reporters Note Book.

bme Stray Leaves From a Reporters
 Note Book.
 Almost every republican politician
 bout town is wearing porous plaster
 n bis left side, the need of such treat nent being the result of continued laughter at the idea of the two demo- Rcratic city committees each with a Holm at its head. The two Johns should get together.
 A rather strange thing happened at a dance which was recently given. Some of the parties who were at the |nance were informed that the pro- grams had been printed in non-unlon |printing establishment. Soon the in formation was passed along to others. Then those present showed their feel ling on the matter. Nearly every pro- |gram in the hall was destroyed and Ifhe dancers got along without pro- 3grams for the remainder of the even- ling. It is unnecessary to add that tn the future the people who gave the Iabove dance will have their programs printed by union men.
 ; Tive had two doses of the boycott in my time" said citizen to a reporter Eh9 other day, ''aLd that's Ill l want [of the business. Years ago l had a Bow with the union men, but we com promised and the thing didn't amount No anything. I saw 1t was to my in terest to join and went in with the $boys This week had q chance to 3get some work done while the joiners are out and thought I had nothing to l0 but trot down to one of the lumber yards and get everything l wanted. Did I get it? No, sir. They didn't kven say that could be accommodated by joining their union. Is there law hGaiast boycotting? If so 1t ought to be somebody's duty to enforce it, or can it be possible that there is one law For union man and another for the Fellow who goes into the trust? What hre we coming to, anyway Somebody told me all the clergymen in Water bury are in with the alliance to put iown boycotting. Am I to understand hat boycotting is wrong only when re- horted to by working people? If the klergymen can stand upon this ground &hey must have got hold of new yer $ion of the Great Book.
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 A A Waterbury man who spent most of his life in one of the local rolling mills but hasn't done anything particular duTing the past ten or fifteen years, was talking with few friends in Ex- eTSange place when the subject drifted
 Into the strike of the overhaulers at Benedict & Burnham's. After mak- &ng few remarks in a general way the rights of capital and la- Dor, he said that he believed both sides were looking for trouble and he thought they'd get 1t. He remembered when overhaulers got more pay at Ben edict & Burnham's than they do now krpd didn't have to be inside the gate bFl the dot or run the risk of losing Their time if they neglected to ring up Half a dozen times day. He was Positive that if the rules now In force n the factories were tIied when he had charge of help all the able bodied men would quit and go to work out ioors. where they could get $1.7b or $2
 day. He believed that the condi- Si6n oh the tradesman Is much better Ut tue present. time than when le was a young man, but he had no hes tation in stating that so far as he had been able to learn the ordinary run of haqnds in factories are driven more how and get less for their labor than They used to thirty or forty years ago when Ghe cost of living was far below Swihat it is to-day. He laughed at
 what someone had been quoted as say Ing about boycotting being foreign
 institution and remarked that in all probability it was destined to become butte popular in its new home. He fecollected when the matter of fence
 nf a gate house was first mentioned bo the directors of the concern where he was employed. One of them pro- Eested and charged the superintendent with aiming to foist. foreign notions bntyo the company simply because he bad been in Europe and noticed such
 himgB over there, The fence didn't Eo mp that year, but it came later and r,lith it the gate house and the other
 1lings that go to make machines out bf men, all of which are of foreign krigin, and men who claim to be ln-
 enseiy American don't notice them
 7e hoped to see the time when there
 voJlld be no trusts. no unions, no boy betting, and better feeling between
 he employer and the employed.