Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1903-02-28

The strikers executive committee
this afternoon issued their forty ninth
official statement, as follows:
We are still enjoying good health,
feeling in good spirits and as firm in
our position as ever. We feel that
we have done all in our power to meet
the trolley company at least half way
in settlement, and now are prepared
to fight to finish if needs be.
Can we be blamed for smiling sar-
castically when we consider that Man
ager Sewell recently took a roll call Of
his men, according to press reports,
and found that about half a. hundred
of the strike breakers were desirous of
becoming upright citizens of Water
bury? Our smiles are called out when
we see the business these men are af-
fording the police and the revenue the
city court has been receiving within
the past few days. Four of the strike
breakers, we believe, have been arrest
ed In the past two days for serious of
fenses. Have any4of the old EMPLOYEES
(now strikersl been arrested? No,
EAnd this is true notwithstanding that
the company has been using every
means possible to catch some Of orr
men and make examples of them. IFS
mo use. however, as our men are of tba
law abiding kind.
Notwithstanding reports to the con-
| lrary, we are assured by the men who
nave come here recently to go to work
ana have left town without doing So.
that they We're brought here under
| misrepresentation on the part Of the
| agents of the company. AS soon as
they find out that a strike is on here
those possessed with any degree of
manhood can't get out of town TOO
| quickly. We know that within tba
last "a hours at least a dozen men
have left Waterbury after discoyerin .
the existing conditions. One of n,11
men who thinks he has poetic vein in
his makeup has written the following
verse. parody on "Tl Q Murrnur of
the Brook" which he thinks is appro-
pirate at this time:
| "Non-union men may come,
-Nonzunion men may go. r.
| But our union bus is running,
lIled TO an overflow,
And in another day or so
! Automobiles will be all the go.''
We will meet this afternoon at 4
O'Clock instead of 5. Tomorrow morn.
ling we meet at 10 o'clock-pay day.
/ Special 'bus accommodations will he
afforded to Oakville people tomorrow
IA bus will leave Exchange place at
lp. M, leaving there at 2 o'clock for the
return trip. Our automobiles, which
1--WE expect daily, will afford create,
convenience and relieve the present
pressure
j We thank the American for an edi.
torial last night referring to our daily
fstatement as if we were a eontempor
larry. This suggestion has set us tt
thinking, and now we are seriously con
1 sidering getting out small daily paper
confined strictly to strike news. We
may call it the Electric News, ol
something equally appropriate 1t vii
contain all the scurrent'' events Of til,
strike, which we will obtain on ou]
Iprivate wires" 1t will he the (1e
lfender Of our cause and will throw al
the eight possible on the doings o,
4 IhAC StI ihC NJ CdhClS WItuOuL SHOCKING,
the most timid. Our editor will be .
ringer" and equipped with plenty O
"sand." We will put the American
on our exchange list and assure al
that the Electric News will be
treat. Watch for the opening mum
Der.
The electric lights struggled hard t
burn last night. Many of them sue