Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-30
John MCEWgOtt.
 Office, Fitzpatrick & Clos ter's, 60 South Main St,
 Telephone connection.
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posed no burdensOme restrictions. Ines unions had shortened hours and in- creased wages, they had made life rich CT and more happy and should not be, legislated out of existence.
 Senator Bradstreet asked MT Dana her if there was danger that the unions would be more interested in the sue. cess of the union man than in his em- ployer MT Danaher said he should deny any such assertion. 4 c. J. Donahue of Derby, representing the State Federation of Labor, said that he represented four-fifths of the labor organizations of the state, The state ments in favor Of the bill made by prominent lawyer were unfair. No man representing organized labor had ever said that it was superior to the law of the state Referring to the strike at the Farrel foundry in Ansonia the speaker said no reign of terror held sway in that city. Men were arrested and taken from the city by deputy sheriffs without nolestation. The peo- pie showed what they thought of the strike by electing one of the arrested men to be mayor of the city. They would never have made Stephen Char ters mayor had he been a criminal.
 MT Donahue said that the letter sent to
 Senator Tracy from the Economic league of Norwich did not represent
 labor union, but political organiza
 tion. MT. Donahue said that violence
 did not go hand in hand with strikes.
 One of the most bitter struggles in the
 state occurred in Danbury, where there
 was no violence or disorder. When vio-
 lence had resulted it was not caused by
 the members of the union The bill
 proposed that fifteen days notice in
 some cases and thirty in others should
 be given of an impending strike. The
 restraint imposed was in violation of
 decisions of the supreme court, 1t re-
 duced labor to condition of involun- tary servitu1e. If men could be com peiled to work a gainst their will for one
 moment they could be forced to work for a lifetime Under the provisions of the bill, any corporation could give
 notice of reduction of wages, while the men would be compelled to work for thirty days against their will for any public service corporation. Or ganized labor was willing to sacrifice it's interests for the public good, as was instanced in the coal strike. He con- trasted the treatment of President
 Roosevelt by the mine owners, with that accorded to him hy the miners, 1 quoting the statements made by MT ! Mitchell and saying that all efforts to. ward conciliatitA came from the Unit ed Mine workers, while the owners re- sented any outside interference.
 MT Donahue said in no case had labor refused to arbitrate its differ
 ences, while the employers insisted that there was nothing to arbftrate. There was no cause for the passage of the 1 pending bill. Labor had asked but 1 little from the present general assem- 1 bly, but it united in mighty protest against bill directed solely against I organized labor. /l
 Other speakers were Samuel Prince
 of New York, T. J. Spelacy of Hartford l H. w. Taylor of Danbury, F. c. Walz, l F. Rober of New Haven and Mir
 Sweeney of Derby. The hearing will
 be continued today Attorney John
 W. filling will close for the bill.