Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-14
WHERE WILL THEY GET WORK?
|tpikers Are Said To Be Dis
 crimina ted Against
J. PECK DISCHARGED TO-DAY

He Had Obtained Work in the Clock
 Factory--Affairs Still Hanging Fire
 in ridgeport-Striker Make An
 other Appeal for Settlement of the
 rrrouble-They Say That Unless the
 Company Meets Them Half Way the
 Strike Will Go On.
 A. ]. Peck, at one time an employe
 if the trolley company, tells story which would lead one to believe that
 here are rather strange things gong ,n in some of the factori,s these times
 1fr Peek came her, from Torrington
 lew years ago and after a time was Amployed on the trolley cars. He kept ii it for a year and half, when ne
 fired of the job and went to Work Ill
 he plating room at the New Englanu Watch factory, where he remained un- ril hn was lad off on account or dulA Hines. The day before the strike was leclared MT Wales of the trolley com nany offered him job on the cafs' (which he accepted, but made only one run when the tie-up occurred ana ne rot through. He never was regaroeu g $ one of the strikers. 4estefday ne got a job in the buffing department or tha Waterbury Clock Go. He says he stated when entering the company 5 employ that the last place he uld pl'il- ing was in Torrington, but later they called him into the ofhce and aceuseu him of misstating a fact and asked him if he was not all employe or tne 4rollev company. PecA explained his I- %1ao maintained that statement with reference to the last place where he did polishing was true Il the same. It went at that until this morning, when he says he was called into the office and discharged on the ground that he was an employe of the trolley company. Peck. now thinks that the unions are noyices in the business of boycotting.
 Wonder what Colonel Burpee will H say in case the trolley company fails to ~ come to terms with the men at Bridge port A big handle was made out of E the short notice given the company in 4 Waterbury, but nothing of this charac- 4 ter can be said of the manner in which the Park City boys have proceeded. z They have given tue company all the Afime it wanted to consider their prop osition, didn't slight MT Sewell or any of the other nabobs of this great organ ization which is destined soon to own all the public ways of the state and use them to suit itself regardless of the l wishes of the people, so that ill case the company cannot make terms with them without another strike the eat will be out of the bag and everybody will see that the company and not it's employees is the aggressor in squabble that has already cost the state a vast sum of money and the end is not yet What a blessing 1t would be if trolley companies would do business on the same principle as the factories do! But if the row starts in Bridgeport it is probable A. W. Paige will attend to it without and assistance from Colonel Burpee, though there are those who claim that the colonel will be 1t any way. Page and Burpee make up wonderful team, when hitched up to- gether their power is almost irresist- able. but when pulling in opposite di- rections 1t Is said that the Bridgeport man gets the pole every time. He is said to have knocked out Colonel Bur- pee and his army of capitalists who sought to own the Naugatuck river in one round. Yes, the little Park City grant IS said to have given the com pany such bump that it didn't know what struck them, even it's counsel. the gallant colonel, going down without being able to give a satisfactory ex Z pianation of the cause. Some day when MT Paige and Colonel BurDee get together and decide to form trol- Icy company of their own it won't take ( them long to oust the Philadelphia i millionaires and become directors in- stead of attorneys, that is unless the r{ jobs they now have are more remun- 'erative than holding a controlling, in- terest in the company.
 The local trolley strike continues Without developing any new phases HThe situation in Bridgeport is becom- | ing more and more interesting. Some Of the papers published in that city say nothing authoritative can be ob- tained from the officials of the com pany and the trolleymen's union. This mornings Telegram-Union says the men will hold special meeting Thurs day morning by which time the com pany's reply will be in their hands and they twill take action upon it. The same paper says that according to rumor one or more of the national officers will be at that meeting. There was no noticeable increase of new men on the cars yesterday, but every car had a new man along with the regular crew
 The Farmer says that the company will, under no conditions, admit out siders to any conference it may have with the men, or treat with them in any way, believing the matter can be adjusted without such influence Should the national officers, however insist upon taking a hand in the mat ter,' says that paper. "the probabili- ties are that the rival interests will clash and then strike is inevitable" [" It continues to say that the company is willing to meet the men half way upon all of the important points at issue. Continuing 1t says:
 Tn regard to wages which was one of the important features of the re- quests of the men, the company will propose compromise which they feel should be entirely acceptable to the employees.
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