Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-16
JOHN O'NEILL'S VIEW.
'He Talks About the Blanket In. junction and the Suit-Says
 Men Have Certain Rights Under Constitution.

JOnn O Nell, who will be cOunSeI TOT the union men when the injunction comes up for hearing, said to-day that he had nothing new to give out. He didn't seem to be very much alarm ed about the outcome of the whole af- fair. He was sure that the constitu- tion guaranteed the right to assemble and he saw no way how they could be deprived of it. It makes no difference he said, whether the people come to- gether as union or non-union men, em- ployers or employees, the constitution gives them the right to assemble and make laws for their own advancement. He admitted that nobody had a right to go to a man and tell him to stop working else he'd break his neck, but he saw no reason why man hasn't the right to approach his fellow man and counsel him not to work for this one or that one and at the same time inform him that by continuing at work he is injuring himself and others and use all his powers of persuasion to win him over to his way of thinking.
 Why" said MT .O'Neill, thrusting his hands into his pockets and walk ing up and down the floor, 'swho found fault last year when a combination of
 
 Gloves and practically gave them $60,- 900 year, or $6O,OOO month, Pm not sure which now, to stop making a certain kinds of tubes. They represent ed that if Randolph & Cloves continu- ed in the business the rest would have to come down on their prices and that it would be better for one concern to shut down that department. The same thing is going on every day in the week and we hear nothing about it being wrong, not word of protest against the throwing of men out of employment. The store keepers are going about every day in the year try ing to get hold of each others c05tom- ers They have a right to employ men to aid and abet them to do this and the law has no right to interfere with them. The same tactics are being used in all branches of business. If you have desirable cook and some body else wants her probably one of her friends will step into your kitchen and induce her to quit and her en- ployer can't do anything about it.
 So far as aiding or abetting the strikers is concerned, my knowledge of Connecticut law warrants me in stating that anybody is justified in giving them a helping hand so long as he knows they are not aiming to commit crime or do anything else contrary to law and order. If they see fit to em- ploy me to state their case it will be my duty to aid and abet them to the best of my ability and I hope to be able to show the court that they are engaged in legitimate enterprise. If it can be proved that they are acting contrary to law, why that's another matter, but because union man tries to dissuade you from working for me because by so doing you are putting the price of labor below where it ought to be and thereby injuring yourself and others is no reason why anybody should believe that the union man exceeded his rights any more than the Standard Oil company or some other combination does when it shuts out anything and everything that has a tendency from hindering it to regulate the market price of it's stock. If man says he does not care to belong to a union and prefers to work for ten cents day and remain on the outside that is his business and nobody has a right to club him into it no more than somebody else has to kick him out if he decides to go in and abide by its rules and regulations. So long as such la1 $ and regulations are in ac- cordance with the laws of the state" :"
 The night police escorts on the cars has been doubled to two men. Ac- cording to orders they shall wear plain clothes. Various reasons are aSSipna6 for This 0haY,Oa
 Not more than half a dozen of the strike-breakers have full uniforms. If some of the old men looked half as un- tidy as some of those in charge of the cars, they would have been given a short vacation.
 w. D. Mahon. national president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees and W. D. Dill worth, chairman of the executive con- mittee of the same organization, called upon Mayor Kilduff this morning and then made tour about the city with a view to seeing what could be done to- wards perfecting plans to bring about settlement of the strike.
 Deputy Coroner Pond came to Wa terbuTy this afternoon and resumed the hearing relative to the death of Of ficer Mendelssohn. Half a dozen wood workers at the clock shop, fellow work men with the murdered officer, were heard. None of them knew anything about the affair until the next morn ing. The coroner told reporter that he didn't expect that he would have anything to give out for publication to-day. r So far the Injunction has not at tracted any new patrons to the cars. Of course this was not the purpose of the instrument, but even so one would think that it would tend to increase the number of people on the cars, es- pecially such beautiful day as yester- day, when nearly everybody able to hobble got out and enjoyed a prom enade about the streets or through the | woods. But it didn't work that way, in fact it had no appreciable effect one way or the other so far as one could see, those who had been riding on the l cars doing things on the old plan and others walking or using the buses. Thousands paraded the streets the whole day long while large numbers