Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-04
STRIKERS WARNING
Ask Shoppers to Finish Business Quickly To-Night and Go Home Two Strike Break CTS. We're Sent Home
 Yesterday.

 strikers to-day issued the following statement:
 '1The strike is twenty-five days old to-day, and our ranks are found shoul- der to shoulder and firm as ever in our struggle for justice. We nave to again thank our many friends for the liberal donalions when have been handed Ill within the past few days.
 We are sure it will be interesting to our ictizens to know Of the disreputa- ble methods which have recently been adopted by the trolley company ill ed deayoring to find help to run their cars here. They have been advertising ex- tensively for help, winding up their advertisement by stating that there was no strike going on. This is only in keeping with many other tactics which this company mas employed to crush Us in our fight. Two men from Newark. N. J., who answered the ad- yertisements were in Waterbury yes terday and had an interview with Su- perint tendent Wales, who told them t z come around this morning and he would put them to work and give each a regular run. His offer was politely refused, however, as the men soon found out the state of affairs existing here and they returned to their homes to pursue honest callings. How strange it is that this corporation is willing to pay $2.50 per day to strangers from parts unknown, feed and stable them besides, and yet state that they will spend $10O, COG rather than consent to pay citizens Of Waterbury $2.25 per day and Lot them take care of them selves. We judge from this extensive advertising referred to that .Bouncer' Farley's recruiting abilities are about exhausted.
 We would also like to inform the public that Gerald Mayne, who was fined in the city court for carrying con Icealed weapons, and who was reported by the company as having been dis charged, is still working on the cars. So much for the sincerity, and truth of i some of the statements made by this company.
 And now word to our friends. To- ! night is shopping night in this city and the streets will be tlrFonged. Don't ] hang around. Do us the great favor 1 of getting through with your business i as quickly as possible and then go to i IouA dol4SSs. lIoh lct us HlLntSS SlL- other Saturday night affair." Innocent people always get the worst of those affairs and we want to be no party to them. You can help our cause in no better way than by granting us this 1 favor. Remember our white badges l and use no violence
 We are not anxious to get into 3 newspaper wrangle such as Manager .SeweH has, but we must take excep- tion to an editorial ill this morning $ Republican which says: The railroad I company is certainly i'll no mood to l yield before those who want to destroy l its property and kill it's employees We submit to the public if this editorial l does not do us great injustice. h an l other editorial this paper says: When yellow journalism gets after you and not until then can you appreciate the plague of it. This latter statement we no@ fully agree with.
 'fWe may be pardoned for smiling, we are sure, when we recollect being called a lot of 'hoboes' for wearing sweaters in zero weather, and now wit ness such sights as conductor 3332 1 smoking a pipe from Exchange place to Burton street between 6 and ' l o'clock last night. Violations of the rules seem to apply only to citizen em- ployes of this alien corporation
 Our bus 1i2e is doing a great busi- ness and we are now running under a regular schedule''