Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-16
ATTORNEY M. ! BYRNE DENOUNCEs UNFAIR LIST
The We'll Known Lawyer Has Few Things To Say About Strike For Seven Weeks He WaIkcd-Fe Proposes Now To Be Free and lndependent-Tell of His Efforts To
 Settle the Strike.

6. The rate of compensation for snow plough work to be not less than that stated by MT Sewen in said letter.
 Without going into details, and, without stating what, in my Judgment, would have happened at that time were the trolleymen permitted to decide for themselves, suffice it that after con- ferences with the Central Labor body and committee from the strikers. the project fell through, the gentlemen in whose behalf l was at that time acting did not deem it necessary or proper to notify me of their decision. Had they wanted to negotiate for a settlement on these lines undoubtedly they would have so informed me. To my mind this proposition embodied about all of their demands, except the re-instate- ment of Barrett and Kelly.
 | Naturally you will ask whether the trolley company would have been will ing to settle on this basis. To this must answer do not know, but, Col onel Burpee as counsel for the company stated to me that he would take up the proposition In question and did not say that the company would not grant any one of them-the committee with which conferred were appraised of this fact. Since the unions seem desirous that every one be flair" I am sure they will appreciate the fact that in making this statement seek to live up to their ideal. Let the public do the comment ing.
 Now, as to being "Unfair' live just two miles from my office, and for ex- actly seven weeks got back and forth as best l could, not riding once on trolley car. The walking was not es- pecially desirable at that time, inas- much as for two-thirds of the distance there were no sidewalks, but, there was an abundance of snow, rain, mud, s1ush and frosty crust. Of this fact the strikers are well aware. During the past two weeks, have used the trolley cars and thus am enabled once more to take dinner with my family a privilege which, except on Sundays, did not enjoy more than i've times in seven weeks. and then only when hired a team to take me home-and the fact. that, in order to help their cause I trudged back and forth for seven weeks is lost sight of, Whens in order to assert my humanity, my love of law and order, my heartfelt interest in the future of Waterbury, my Jealousy of its good name, have expressed myself openly and have become member of the Alliance for the sole purpose of still further emphasizing my condemna- ton of crime, my detestation of those who do it, as well as of those who aid or abet it, and in this feeling if sincere the unions vic with me. If men are permitted to do murder, and if those who openly condemn it are, in the esti- nation of the unions, unfair" ask where Is your boasted honesty? Where your support of law and order? Where your so-called independence? Where your desire to see justice done3 Are we to support proposition which in light these latest developments will \ make the second condition different only because worse than the first? Dated at Waterbury this 16th day of
 March, 1908.
 Yours Truly,
 M. J. BYRNR