Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-07
Do Not Like Action of Fellow
 Members Election Day
sA1D,To BE GIVING UP BUTTONS

SAlD'TO BE GIVING UP BUTTONS Report Has 1t That in Several Well
 Known Cafes That Emblem is Miss
 ing-Another Report Says the Bosses
 Have Ordered the Buttons off-N ix-
 ologist Club is Getting Raped.
 The Bartenders' union appears to De on the verge of dissolution if the statements made by some members of 1t are true. And if the Bartenders' union goes the Mixologist club. con ducted at S9 South Main street. na,1st follow in its step, for the charter if claims to carry in the bartenderss name will necessarily be invalid un- der the circumstances. This is al event that was not expected to arise from the result of the election Mon day. The club run in their name was quite handy concern and it neces. sar1ly follows that when their union goes to pieces, if it does, the club must follow them. The club made great showing in the Labor day parade and according to general report. and tne optical evidence of some, few or 1ts members made a great splurge h the election Monday. Thomas Flynn. Who runs the Bartenders' club was caught red-handed bedding a pasted ticket, which in politics is said to ba the meanest thing one could do. Two or three others were implicated also. and the entire union is now in disfa- vor. It has been said that one mem Der of it was roughly handled on East Main street, and that on election night another member of it had to fav to a hotel for protection from angry fists.
 The latest phase is said to be the discarding by members of their union button. According to the rules of the union no member should appear be- hind the bar without his union but ton Since the election the button has not been in evidence very much. Tn places where it once shone, it has not been seen during the past few days, and union members threaten to throw it away. Until about q month ago if was considered quite privilege fo have the right to wear a bartenders' union button, but to-day some of the members consider it a dis grace to belong to the union and that was the main reason for throwing off their button. These mem bers admit that every man had the right to vote for whenever he pleased & even allowing that it was against tha rules or the regulations of his union 10 do so, for the claims of conscience supersede the claims of everything else, unions and organizations. but ft was hardly fair to not only vote the republican ticket, but to work for 1t. in spite of the fact that the democratic candidate bore the endorsement of al- most every labor organization in thg city. They could have voted; what ever way they wished, but they should have let others do the same without interference, is the cry set up against the bartenders' union.
 The threats of dissolution anDear to be directed more against certain mem bers of the union than against the union itself.
 There were many reports on the streets this afternoon. One had 1t that union saloons are being boycott ted. Another that in numerous placed bartenders were given the choice of dismissal or discarding their badge It is certain that in half dozen sa- looms the union button is seen no more, and the proprietor did not influence his men in their action either.
 President John J. Murphy of the Bar. tenders league was asked in regard to the above story. He replied as fol- lows: Some persons are trying to ,4as,, 1,49 The reported acts of bartenders throw ing away their buttons is the random talk of persons not members of the union. Of course there may be one or two members who work so far on about it, or being in arrears for six or seven months have been wild enough to throw their buttons away. How ever, I haven't heard of any. There are all kinds of reports, in which there is no truth, flying around. One of these is to the effect that MaFtin Clark, clerk at M. ). McEEoy's. had lost his position. It is not so. '
 Another member of the union saids sOf course there Is quite bitter feel ing among certain members, owing Co certain things which occurred at Mon days election, but haven't heard Of any members throwing away their buttons"
 It was reported on Monday that Flynn, who was circulating democratic ballots with Elton's name pasted over Lynch's, had warm dispute with brother member of the Bartenders union. The result was that the latter took the tickets away from Flynn and tore them up.
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