Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-18
Strikers Daily Statement.

The strikers executive committee is sued the following statement this af- ternoon:
 "This is the 128th day of the strike in Waterbury, and it finds us starting in on our nineteenth week with our old employers grappling with another strike in our sister city, Bridgeport, and also finds Bridgeport recovering from a Sunday afternoon riot that eclipsed any scene enacted in Water bury since we went out on January Il. While we sincerely regret yesterdays upheaval in Bridgeport, as we know from experience that such incidents harm rather than help the cause of the strikers, we cannot but point out that strikes always are accompanied Ey such scenes especially trolley strikes and the company having had a very expensive and explicit demonstration in this city should have exerted ever. power under the sun to prevent a strike in Bridgeport and also prevent the possibility of riots and loss of life. But so mighty is this corporation that these things are but trides to it, ap- parently, and so long as it can keep from giving its men fair wages and wipe out an occasional union or two, it is perfectly satisfied and public dis turbances or public Inconvenience cause it or its directors no worriment Meantime, those who have maligned Waterbury throughout the country can now take a back seat and allow their kind in Bridgeport to have Waterbury forgotten fod. the time being as a rest oI. of that nature, and give Bridgeport the privilege of being roasted" from the New England coast to San Francisco. Why not get the parties to the contro- versy in both Waterbury and Bridge port together and have. the two dffH- entities wiped out of existence? This would be the cause of general rejoic- ing throughout the state, everybody would be happy, the company would gain rather than lose and law breakers would not have a chance to commit outrages under cover. Let the com pany meet it's old employees about half way. The men are willing, we assure you.
 "A police officer was commented up- on considerably yesterday for not ar resting 8 stTike-breaking trimmer near South Main street and Union street, about II o'clock in the morning. The fellow was showed up Union street twice by the officer. but still persisted in looking for trouble Instead of talk ing him to the station house. the off, cer let the fellow get away on a troll ley car. How the policeman could have so much patience with this fel- low was q mystery
 The Waterbury strike is off! It must be, for Billy" Rigney, the hero of the copper mystery, has been over to Meriden looking up clues on every thing and announced thusly to the Mer- iden papers We presume Billy" was speaking as a private citizen, not as an official, but we did not know he was accustomed to joke on Saturdays
 We wish to thank sincerely the band of ladies who have formed an auxiliary to our cause for the donation so kindly sent in to US yesterday. As the young women do not care for the notoriety of having their names appear in the press, we cannot mention their names here, but will acknowledge the dona- tion in regular form, besides extending this public statement of thanks To give an idea of the scope of the friend ship we are receiving, we received this morning a donation from a brother un- ion in Fort Bragg, Gal.
 Yesterday was pay day with our men, who received their weekly wages and were made happy"