Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-23
Says He Has Nothing to Say For the Newspapers
 or to Them.
PRESIDENT A. M. YOUNG IN TOWN AGAIN.
Coseted with Manager Sewe this Mornns-The Manager Re. fused to Make Known what Transpired-SeweI Says His Now Up to Colonel Burpee to
 Make Statement.
Make a Statement.

initiated. and several propositions for membership were received. The aux Hilary passed d vote supporting the trolleymen in their present strike, and resolutions giving the men both moral and financial support were adopted. It was voted to assess 25 cents member during the continuance of the strike.
 One of the non- union men Is said to be the son of a wealthy man, and that his present condition is the result or forging his fathers name to a check for large amount. Whether this is true or not, the man puts up an ap- pearance to surround himself with such halo. He wears clothes of the latest cut, the baggy trousers so distinctive of the college man, and the pipe, the everlasting pipe with the bent stem. With his hands in his trousers pockets, his coat up in the rear and his black hair as long as conventionality allows he would certainly be taken for the species of mankind accepted as the col lege man. How the strikers came to have this knowledge of him they can not say, except that they heard it. And a peculiar thing about this matter Is that the strikers seem to know great deal about all the non-union men.
 It was said to-day that fellows are going around the outskirts of the city representing themselves as striking trolleymen and asking assistance to help them keep up the fight for fair treatment from the company. If this be true those who are engaged in the business are frauds and people should not be imposed upon by them. The striking trolleymen are not In want and they are not likely to be, for even though they never managed a car again they are all bright, smart young men and are able and willing to turn their hands to something else. This is in line with the allegations that trolley. men are watching women shoppers and endeavoring to prevent storekeepers from selling them anything. No mat ter what one may think of the merits of the question at issue in this strike, 1t is nothing more than justice to the strikers to say that they are behaving themselves in a creditable manner.
 { If this story is, true, and 1t Is youched for by 8 reputable physician i'll this city, the methods pursued by traction companies in general are not commend able. One of the non-union men brought to this city and who did not remain long when he reached here, was on the train to New York when 1t is said he told the following story to a physician of this city who got into con- versation with him. He would have remained at work here had the condi- tions been satisfactory. The pay was good enough, but the quarters down at the barn were not to his liking. He was one of a number of professional St1s ly al the payroll of the traction companies. These latter, he said, have a general office in New York or Boston and those offices keep so many men on the pay rolls of the various companies. They receive $9 a week when they are not employed in breaking strikes and $2.50 a day when employed at work such as Is going on in this city now. It was a good job, he said. as you receive pay whether you work or not, and when you do work yoll get good pay.
 1T hope, said Edward l.. Frisbie, Sr, to Democrat reporter today, ito see this strike settled soon and the men back at their old jobs. The trolleymen have always treated me with great courtesy. Whenever I happened to be out with a skittish horse the motormen invariably kept a close watch on his | movements and managed to slow up the car until got past. often wished the fellows running automobiles would show the same consideration for a man who was trying to manage a spirited horse" In reply to a question as to what would be the outcome of the Jars now going on between labor and capi- l tal Mir Frisbie remarked that these things would right themselves in time and that those who will come after us
 will not find the situation as difficult of solution as we do. He thought there were many things we believed
 and practiced when we were boys which might have been wrong, but be- cause they suited the times nobody found fault. MT Frisbie is too con l servatiye to express an opinion on the
 merits of the trolley strike In Water bury, but being a man of peace 1t is
 no guesswork to state that he should be pleased to see this cruel war over
 and things moving along as usual.
 The strikers are greatly annoyed by
 the false reports that have been pub lished during the past few days. They
 are of the opinion, too. that their pub l lication was not the result of accident,
 but actual wilfulness with the purpose
 of damaging the strikers interests. The executive committee said this morning that all they ask from the public and
 press is square deal. They cite the
 accident on North Main street yester-
 day, car running off the track, as an instance. The actual facts were pub
 lished in the Democrat yesterday that
 the incident was an accident pure and
 simple, that 1t was not the first car
 that left the tracks at that point and that no extraordinary attention would
 have been paid to it had it happened
 under normal circumstances. Since
 then, however, it has been published
 that the accident was due to number
 of railroad ties being placed on the tracks by boys. Even allowing this to
 be so, the men say there was no excuse for the accident. that the motorman
 had a straight road before him and
 could have easily seen the ties and stopped his car. But there were nc ties on the track. Had there been the | lf. a