Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-03
The Daily Statement Says Right
 Must Surely Win
BACKED BY FEDERATED LABOR

0AOAED p GG0Gn2 AGO Gh0Oh Figures Given to Show What This Or
 ganization Has Done for Other
 Strikers New Men Daily Going to
 Work for Trolley Company Water
 bury Men Among the Number
 Strike Breakers are Leaving Town
 Notes of the Strike.
 The strikers executive committee is sued the following statement this af- ternoon.
 This the s3d day of our strike finds our boys standing together as a unit for justice and will continue to do so until such time as the company meet us on an honorable and honest basis. We have shown disposition to do the right thing from the start
 We are glad to be able, to state that we have received the endorsement and Support of the American Federation of Labor, and that we can continue this fight as long as the company can. To the uninitiated who do not know what the cooperation of that body means, a few figures may not be out of place. We will just quote a few organizations out of thousands who responded to the appeal on behalf of the oppressed miners, here they are: Carpenters and Joiners. $30.254; Bricklayers, $12, 2,l91; Boot and Shoe workers. $5.7S9; Cigar makers. $S.301; other fraternal organi- cations. S64.716.
 We have no fear as our cause is just one and truth and justice will in the end triumph. We will continue this fight until all reasonable and just demands are acceeded to. Our meetings are held twice a day, at 10 q. n. and D. m.
 Observation in the strike situation has been removed from the strikers Headquarters to the police headquar- tefs. Everyone is watching and wait ing for the detective force to make the next move, for, according to statements made by Colonel Burpee, who seems to be very busy pulling the wires that make the police force and the private detectives jump the next move is due from them. Wednesday afternoon he
 
 made at any moment, the principal ar- rest of all. the parties who are guilty of the death of Policeman Mendelsso1ln. He also stated that certain disclosures had been made to him and it was on the strength of these statements that the arrest would certainly be made. 5 Yet two days and nights have passed. and while everybody Is anxious that the guilty parties shall be brought to justice. nothing has apparently been done, at least nothing that was appar- ent to the public eye. This is very strange, for Colonel Burpee is a man of his word. He certainly must have made the statements upon some tangi- ble ground Everything he has said he would do or would be done by some one else since he appeared in the strike situation, has been done If his state ments had been faulty there would have been no wonder expressed now at the failure to make tl 'irrests which were expected to l. been made upon the strength or 'lis own words. Everybody hopes tllnt he col- onel,s words will be realized before very long. The public. somehow. have come to look upon him as the chief pilot of the detectives. He is the trol- ley company's representative i'll the matter now and has been for some time, and it is believed that he has not fully shown his hand yet. There is every prospect that he will appear on the witness stand when the bound over cases are heard In the superior court He has already contradicted some statements made by some of the young men who have told all they are said to know to save their own skin, and as their evidence will confront them in the higher court, 1t naturally follows that Colonel Burpee will be a witness to contradict these statements which, if true, would tend greatly to weaken their evidence This is a point, however, that is not of much importance at this stage of the case People are asking why has not Colonel Burpees statement that the parties guilty of the death of Mendelssohn, or closely competed with 1t. been car ried out. The public is in very fever ish state The enormity of the rail- road accident that happened few days ago was lost sight of in the excitement created by the arrests of some of the strikers. otherwise it would have mortified the people, occurring as it did at their very door. Every eye is cen tered on the police department, and will be centered there until the last of these, eases are heard.
 The arrests effected but little change in the strike situation itself It is q fact that many hailed them as an ex- cuse for patronizing the cars. but this number is very small, hardly notiee- able. in fact to what the number would be were the strike declared off to-mor- row. The increased patronage is noticeable in the shop cars in the busy hours for the trolley company, but dur ing the day particularly in the after noon, when the stores do the greater. part of their business of the day. There is also an increase in the number riding in the. evening. but as has been said, 1t Is far from paying the company even the running expenses. The people who pay the company's dividends are not riding. These are the working people. and no amount of argument can prove otherwise. The company has not won back the peoples favor. Every union man and woman in the city is well aware that if the strikers are guilty or the violence charged against them they oIfoI1f fO he DlJniShpd for. no af TOT, 1.e q :