Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-08
Demands Of Men Will Be Dis-
 cussed By Directors
CONDITIONS EXISTING THERE

Want There as Company Will No
 Invite Another Strike-Nothing New
 in Strike Circles in This City-strik
 CTS Issue Daily Shatement-It Has
 Something to Say About Manager
 Sewell's Saucy Remarks to Presi.
 dent Barrett. f
 Tomorrow the board of directors ot
 the trolley company will be presented
 with the demands of the Bridgeport
 men and it is presumed that immedl-
 ate action will be taken, or will be ta-
 ken very soon, in view of the long time
 the men have been waiting to get their
 claims before the directors, almost
 three months. Attention will conse-
 quenty be concentrated on that end of
 the trolley lime for some time. Vari-
 ous opinions have been expressed as to
 what action the company will take but
 1t is agreed by all that In view of the
 experience the company has had in the
 local situation there will be no strike.
 The situation Is rather complex in
 Bridgeport. There are two barns about which bhe affairs of the men are cenbered. The men belonging to the Stratford avenue barn have no partic- ular grievance; that is, the situation there IS said to need a general toning up. In the barn on Barnum avenue The men are clamoring for reforms. There is look of retribution on the af- fairs in that part of the contention. The men employed there were at onaI time all strike breakers. About ten years ago when the old horse car was in vogue the men went on strike for more pay. No sooner had they quit work than host of local men took their places, but things were made so warm and lively for them and fur thermore, the conditions against which the old men struck were so positively unpleasant that the strike breakers did not remains very long in the company's employ. Then large force ofoutsiders. mostly from New Jersey, were drafted Into town, and the greater part of these men form the bulk of the men who are now clamoring for reforms in the conditions under which they became sTiKe breakers ten years ago.
 null quite recently the old hands were given the easy runs and no one complained against that. This, while not 3 rule of the management. ap-l peared to he an unwritten one How ever, it was evidently satisfactory to all and it was looked upon as pro- motion to be placed among the old hands on the easy runs
 But recently this order of things was reversed The new hands were given the runs of the old hands. whereunon every man, new and old, rose up for more pay, a day off each week if inc men asked for it. readjustnent of the runs and a number of other things which as a whole amount to far more both in number and importance to what the local men struck against.
 The strike of ten years ago is still and the people in gener-, al do not wish for a repetition of if lodence marked it from the start, yio- lence of the severest nature. There IS great difference between the pub llc Of Bridgeport and the public of " aOerbury. The people in the Park City are not as phlegmatic as the peo- Die In this city are. Strikes are not such a novely there as they are here ana the people are more independent and heterogeneous. They do not seem to be so much under the heels of ruth less politics as they are here. and this IS evidenced in their petition to the legislature for the appointment of sa1ne offler attorney as judge of their city court other than Judge Comley. They were fuIly aware before they present. gu lnaE petition that it would be tl11.n- eu down eventually, but they were also ware that 1t was the first step toward 1ne eIection of the judiciary of he state 0y fhe people. Some time ago they arose as one man and overthrow the party in power because they deemed if about time to do so; here the peonle Baere knocked about by the politicians of party until they did not know Fhere they were at, and yet at the fol owing electlon they were rendered Sc splrltless and depressed that they elect. sd the candidates of that party. So if 5 evident that the people of Bridge 'oait wlh not leave the management of trolley strike, if such unfotunateJvJ 'ccurs. as long hanging fire as the lo- al one is.
 lhe iocad experience of the company. is said, will be one reason for nra. 'enting a strike in Bridgeport. The company may be able to stand for a lme loss in one district of it's limos ut it cannot stand loss on it's nrin. lpal and largest territory.
 There were no developments in Inc { I1ke situation to-day and evidently one are expected, at least for some , lme Colonel Burpee, who seems to $ e the source of all official information Il the matter from the compainy's side, q ad nothing to impart for publication. 'eithed' had Attorney O'Neill, counsel I or phe accused strikers and others V
 We don't expect to have anything say" said Mir O'NeiIl, until the ases come to court, that is, providing ney ever get there" r The strikers executive committee is- f led the following statement this after Q oon ', Eighty eighth day of our strike. h TerY man on deck. not a particle of . eakness on the part Of our body; ev- 'ybody ready and willing to continue