Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-13
Says There Will Be No Strike In
 Bridgeport
NEW MEN ARE BEING PUT ON


 Local Trolley1nen Are Awaiting Out
 come of Recent Conferences ill Park
 City-Strikers Present Their Daily
 Statement and Talk About .Automo-
 biles Baseball and Other Things
 Not Very Rushing Business for a
 Balmy Easter Sunday.
 Colonel Burpee is authority for the staitement that there will be no strike : in Bridgeport, unless outside influence has more weight with the men than the Sinfiuence of the company and it's officials has. Colonel Burpee's jurds- x1iction as counsel foc the company ex- tends to Bridgeport. He said that he has had two or three conferences with the executive committee of the men, which consists of three mlotormen and .three conductors. There are about 1a0 men employed in the Bridgeport district These conferences have been of great value to both the men and the representatives of the company. The committee spoke up without a fear or reservation of anything that concerned their cause and a full un- derstanding has been arrived at. Col onel Burpee said he has discussed the matter with the men and the board of directors, and from the result ar rived at in these conferences he is sat dsfied that there will be no interrup- tion to trolley work in Bridgeport un- Tess outsiders advice proves stronger than the influence of the board of di- rectors. The final decision. however, has not yet been determined by the company. Colonel Burpee thought that would be given in q few days. Then the men will hold a meeting and decide to accept or reject it.
 There have been reports that the company is preparing for strike by engaging a lot of men. Manager Sew ell explains this very easily. He says this is the regular season when the company always engages extra men Tor the summer work. Additional cars will be run from Bridgeport to New Haven, Ansonia, Woodmont and on the south line to Stamford, via Fair field. Engaging crews for the sum- mer work means the employing of a large force of men. The summer time is the harvest for dihe trolley compa- mics and all over the country now ex- tT'a men are being taken on. That is said to be one of the reasons why the company is satisfied to take on sloeal men who are inexpeiienced.S
 The hoafday season here produced no changes in the strike situation. not even Easter Sunday helped to put on one more car. A year ago yesterday the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co was in the zenith of it's popularity here and people by the thousands availed themselves of it's cars ito get out into the suburbs and enjoy the weather and sport their spring hats and suits. Yesterdays almost every nody walked There were no extra cars as there was no use for them: the people walked and the strike drags along.
 The strikers executive committee issued the following statement this af- ternoon:
 lhis IS the ninety-third day of our strike and we have only to report tba same loyal conditions existing amono our men, whose stlck-to-it-iyeness has been the subject of comment all over Ine country and has made the strike 2 famous incident in history. Yesterday was pay day for the boys who receiv- ca their wages in good spirits and went away as happy as the weather was ae- iigntrui. Did you notice the business the automobiles did yesterday It now looks as if 1t will be necessary to get even larger numbers of the ma. cnines than we had already figured upon, as the present fad seems to he to Iake ride in the union auto.
 That noted men throughout the conn. try have finally come to realize tbo, aoor unions are here to stay and fhat Inelr organization is a benefit to The world IS being proven daily by the comments published in the press simi. Jar 10 this one from Henry D. Lloyd Who stated: The best friends the people have to-day are the unions ot inc Workingmen. We must keen tban7 rom being destroyed. We must learr lthe lesson they teach. The peonJe nnst organize if they would survive i,
 It looks as if the Pinkerton men who are here will have other work to dc than they have had outlined to then by the trolley company. We learn from an authoritative source that one of the men employed at the cal barns Is missing from the city ant mat he Is wanted for most atrocious outrage upon an orphan girl in the west end. 1t will be interesting tc note the eagerness which will be dis played by the company and thei agents in capturing the fiend and bring ing him to justice
 me captain of our shoulder f. shoulder base ball aggregation is ne gotlating for royal battles on the bas, ball diamond with our New Haven anf Bridgeport brethren. We are receiyin. oHers also from various sources want 1ng our team to play ball and take tn, receipts, all of which shows the goo( feeling that is constantly being dis played toward us in our just figh against relentless corporation
 The executive committee has in hand the preparation of a history of tn. strike. which it Is considering havins published in the near future The idef Is to have the book fully illustrated