Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-25

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 Regular meeting of Central Labor union at Buffers and Polishers' hall Monday evening at the usual hour.
 Buffers, and Polishers' local 37 at their weekly meeting held on Thurs day evening collected $11O ill assess nlents for the aid of the trolley strik- CTS. This does not look as if the in terest was dying out very rapidly.
 Many questions are being asked re- garding the Economic league. Those ill position to know say that it is not dead, nor even sleeping. They say further that when the time for the pri- maries rolls around that the league will be found cutting considerable ice. Time alone will tell.
 Several weeks ago the trolley com pany, according to authorities that should know, were doing 65 per cent of their normal business This week the same authority states that the number of people riding is fast picking up, and estimates that the receipts are probably one-third as large as be- fore the strike. Something wrong in the mathematics, isn't there?
 The Times. the ''under-dog," has suc- cumbed to the inevitable. The pres sure brought against it, it's publisher says, was not counterbalanced by the union support received. This has been the experience of more than one labor paper. When people awaken to the idea that quality as we'll as quantity counts. then there will be some show for strictly workingman's paper.
 William H. Scoyil1e of Haddam. who will succeed Harry Black as commis- sioner of the bureau of labor statistics, is a native of East Haddam and is 45 years old. He was for some years en- gagged as marketman and later was proprietor of the Gelston house at Goodspeed's Landing He served as deputy sheriff under Sheriff Hutchin- son and later under Sheriff Brown, and was a member of the board of county commissioners for MiddIesex county from 1895 to 1902, when he was ap- pointed jailor at Haddam. He was a member of the house in the general as- sembly of 1899.
 One of the strike breakers, with his family, lives on Center street. His young daughter, of course, innocent as regards to any b1n against her father, was playing ill the rear of the block one day this week and enjoying her self to the utmost, An older relative of one of the children, in passing, was about to cali his children away, when he noticed upon the pin which held in place the shawl of the daughter of the strike breaker the words, II won't ride with a scab." It struck him as being exceedingly humorous and he passed on. The daughter now plays with the other children in the block to her hearts content.
 Is blacklisting really being done in Waterbury? Evidence is coming in ey- cry day that would have a tendency to point in that direction. Eight ma- chinists left here on Monday-some of the best in the city, and the bulk left for the reason that one of their num- Der had been discharged from different factories in the town for no other req son than that he was active in union. affairs. At the place where these eight men are employed a dozen or more men are needed immediately and the full complement will undoubt- edly be secured from Waterbury. Is the driving of honest and skilled work men from the city American or un- American?
 A Norfolk, Va court has decided that No employer or contractor has any le- gal right to advertise for workingmenl during a strike and attract them to city by misrepresenting the Iacts of the case" During strike of the building trades in Norfolk, several con- tractors advertised for men, stating that no trouble existed. Their ads were answered by a number of work men from Savannah. who learned the true state of affairs on reaching Nor folk, and refused to go to work. Suit was instituted against the contra ctors and the court awarded them railroad fare, hotel expenses and full pay for all time lost. The foregoing quotation was a part of the decision.
 All union men and their frienus should note the label which appears at the head of this column and also at the head of the editorial columns of this paper. It takes the place of the Ty- geographical union label, which has been carried by the Democrat for more than three years. This, the Allied Printing Trades label, shows that the presswork on the paper is performed by union workmen as we'll as the typo graphical part. By the terms of the agreement in the larger cities, where such unions exist, the stereotypers and bookbinders are included and must De recognized in order to entitle an office to the use of the emblem of the allied crafts. The Democrat was the first daily paper in Waterbury to sign a con- tract md 11so bo vTvnnoranhica1 1aINol