Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1903-02-26
FOrty-Sixth Statement.

this afternoon :
''Phe forty-seventh day OF our strike,
which Is to-day, finds our band OF
striking trolleymen standing firmly to-
gether in our struggle for justice with
q powerful corporation.
1--WE find ourselves being subjected
to occasional criticisms from our news
paper friends. We must remind them,
however, that we are in crucial stu
alton. We believe we have been treat
ed unjustly and have time and again
| offered to let d committee OF pubic
citizens decide whether or not we are
right in taking the steps we did. Our
mighty combantant, however, ignores
such suggestions. That being the
case. we naturally resent what we be-
lieve to be partisanship and against
us and our cause. We submit, however,
il in the forty-seyen statements We
have issued, we lave IN the least Ihah-
ner encouraged lawlessness OF con-
| tempt OF the law. All we want AZ 70
be treated just as fairly as the Y. -.
and l.. Co, nothing more. we Wlll caii
attention to any unfair or partisan
| treatment that comes to our attention.
''One Of our men, in whom We nave
| explicit confidence. stated ut this morn
/ ing's meeting that he neard a member
of the police department tell Manager
Sewell last night, as the crowd came
1 from the City hall, that it was lucky
/ his cars had been called In, and that
! Manager Sewell remarked that 1t was,
considering that dirty mob coming
out" Have we ever said anything in
/ our statements that were as liable to
cause Ill feeling as that remark?
1--WE understand that Ray Platt,
whose employment with the trolley
company here precipitated the line
1 mems strike, has been bounced from
| Bridgeport, where he went from here
! We understand from reliable authori.
ty that the company had no further
use for him.
/ "There were series OF mishaps this
j noon on the Bank street line. A car
from Brooklyn passed the Plume &
i Atwood switch before the one coming
from Exchange place reached there
/ They, almost collided. Both returned
i to the switch and the car from Brook
| lyn started up town once more only te
4 meet, an extra car which had followed
the regular from the center. Another
collision was narrowly averted. Il
was case Of general mix-up all arount
and might have cost some money.
"Is it not strange that some o.
our country's most noted mer
should have had ideas on the labor
problem that are so much at variance
with those Of the men at the head oi
the trolley company? Tor instance
The Honorable John w. Griggs, attor
ney-general in the cabinet of the late
President Mckinley, and Ex-Governor
of New Jersey, stated at banquet o.
the chamber of commerce in New Yorl
!, as follows: Let US have more mutua
sympathy and confidence between al
classes and conditions Of men. Th,
man who works for wages, day by day
; is our equal at the ballot box. Yer,
often he has-generally he hasa
high instincts, as loyal and true
] heart as his employer. There is N,
! reason why his employer should no
be his friend. Show him that you syn,
! pathize with him as fellow citizen
: This is not condescension. 1t is hi
: right. Let there be confidence be
? tween the men that earn wages and til
: men that pay wages. Let them NEE
Z together on plane Of political equalit
!, and they will learn to respect the en-
: ployer and the employer. take M
: word for it will learn to respect then
! And then let us stop making citizen
:. out Of unworthy material. Let us ope
! our gates hereafter only to men Q
:, merit with right Instincts
Has anybody seen the sentiment
expressed by this worthy man emula-
I'd In the slightest degree by the ma
Q here In charge OF the trolley company
lt No! And could the expressions quote
y apply more closely to the local situf
II tion? And we doubt, also. IL anyon
Z. VIII be found to contradict the aeon
It acy of the quotations presented
e Editor of Democrat:
1t Dear Sir-We were amused to fin
e ourselves lectured In the editorial co
u umn of the American last night fc
q calling attention to what we consit
- cred unfair treatment toward orr 'br
u patrons by the police. Yet, in al
y other part Of the paper Is an anon.
= nous communication lambast;ng Il
= mayor and board of public works 4
= performing their duty as they saw
= We think all of the statements "
:, havr inspired (without any sllgge
= tions from sneaking politicians as II
- American calls them. either J HI
- caused to be published are free fro
20 any suggestions of violence. and helic-
n = the letter referred to above con1ain
70 more matter liable to suggest wanda
r.. ism than anything ~; published 20
30 cerning our trouble With the 6. Il.
IA + Cn We Iatc no syntpat1v wi
stone tErowers INT would ask the III
lie IL they are any worse than pap
which allows it's mayor and ci
nc boards to be assailed through its CT
% umns by someone lacking the manhot
y to sign his name to what he wishes
- - give out to the public. Respectfully
- - G. HORGAN
- ]. II. COLLINS
~ I'll. DENNIS,
81 Executive Committt
81 P. S.--While the American claims
ne have found that letter floating In t
IN gutter, an appropriate place for it, ,