Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-16
THE DAILY TALK.
Strikers Stick to Statements
 Made Yesterday
WHAT 13c AN HOUR MEANS

Couiu harn Only Enough to Pay
 House Rent at $1O Per Month and
 Food for Six at Cents a Meal-Ths
 Statement Also Tells About an At
 tempt to Suppress the Times.
 The strikers executive committee is.. sued the following statement today. which is the ninety-sixth day of the strike:
 Our statement of yesterday struck home quite forcibly and demonstrated that we are still very much alive to the times. It also showed up to the public some conditions which would have nev~ CT been given out were it not for our daily statement. The news given out therein was the subject of considerable discussion and won us many friends
 This morning we find that the New nngiand Watch company and the Wa terbury Clock company are out with denials of the accuracy of our state- ments. The Watch company's officials deny the story in toto and say some thing about our talking through our hats. In reply we wish to say that we still believe our statement of yesterday that the employees of the Watch com pany were threatened with discharge if thy rod on our buses to be true. We received our information from erl- ployes of this company and can furnish names if necessary to confirm what we stated is absolutely true. That does not sound very much like hat talk, does it?
 Concerning the clock company. we repeat that We can see no reason for contradicting our statement of yester- day. The representative of that com pany says the discharged man, Fred Peck, was not striker. We say he was. They also say they can prove their innocence by pointing to one of the employees in the Waterbury Manu- facturing company, named Frank Ger aghty, who worked on the trolley cars at one time. Does that prove that they nave not discriminated? Why, Frank Geraghty left the trolley company be- fore there was any strike Are they displaying great fairness because they hire people who may have worked any old time for the trolley company? We cannot see it in that light.
 up to this time the gentlemen of the alliances have made no oyertures toward finding out if the statement of yesterday is not entirely the truth. They have expressed themselves as being So disinterested and desiring nothing but absolute justice fo all from all that we expected them to be up and doing on our statement before this. On the contrary, however. we are Hr1f rorNlI 41af their great love for the laboring mans side of it so much that they have en- deavored to suppress the printing of the new weekly paper known as The Times. This is printed by local print ing concern, whose owner has been ap- preached in manner nothing short of coercion and asked if he could stand for printing such a sheet The paper referred to has been taking strong sides with labor.
 "The trolley company is now Haunt ing before the public set Of figures in which they attempt to show their bigness of heart for the employees under them, concerning whose welfare they apparently have long suffered from in- somnia. Tn their great liberality, they show where they started their men
  hour. Let us figure out what a man could do with that big salary: Work ing 365 days a year at that salary, his yearly salary would amount to about N$474.50. Say he has family of six and gives them three meals a day. which we will figure at say five cents meal, he will spend out of his salary for the year $32S.50. Figuring the rent at $1O per month that takes $120 more of it. We now find that the entire sal- ary has been expended. Shoes, coal, light, education, recreation, insurance, clothing etc will have to be done with out Does Manager Sewel, who is said to have worked at one time for SIPS per day.. think that because of that fact he should not now receive $7, 800 per year, or whatever he re. ceives? We fail to see where the com pany has shown to the public it's en- largement of the heart.
 'tWe have been in consultation with our Bridgeport brothers concerning the situation down there, but have nothing that we can give out to the public at this writing other than what has been or will be sent out to the press.
 Fuses will leave the center at 7:45 for Waterville, to take parties desiring to attend the kirmess given by Father Traynor."
 Olfe of the local deputy --sheriffs said to-day: sNo, haven't been work ing for the trolley company since last Saturday. The local sheriffs are not good enough for the trolley com pany. They have three deputies from out of town working for them now.''
 NO STRIKE 1N BRIDGEPORD
 Bridgeport, April 16.-The probabil- ity of a strike of the trolleymen has apparently been much lessened as a. result of the action of the directors as communicated yesterday by Mana ger Sewell to the tro1leymen's execu- tive committee A meeting of the executive committee which began at o'clock this morning was devoted to the consideration of the company's letter. One of the members of the committee said that the statement from the company wasN satisfactory aDd That af filn rnnnf,ins~ If ff ,.v,s<,x,