Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-27
NEW MEN LEAVE TOWN
Two Carpenters Who Had Been De-
 ceived--Condition of Strike.

and Joiners' union goes merrily on and so far neither side appears to, have much advantage over the other. The
 number of new men secured is not ! very large and some of them have al- i ready lacked up their jobs and dug out. Two clever fellows who came | here from New York and went to-
 work for Contractor McAuley quit when they learned that there was .
 strike on and Waterbury will see them no more. They claimed that
 when they were hired they were aRslir- ed that they were not to take the 1 places of other workmen and that
 there were no labor troubles in the
 town. They noticed people cycling
 them rather suspiciously but they
 didn't know what was up until last
 night when somebody let the eat out
 of the bag. The men called at the 1 office of the carpenters and j0iners
 this morning, showed their cards and
 stated that had they known the facts | they would not have come here. They
 left But there is good deal of
 work going on Just the same and many
 strange faces are noticeable on the 1 buildings. One Of the newcomers,
 who is at work on Grand street, att
 tracts a good deal of attention. He is
 shoeless and hops about in his bare
 feet like a man promenading mp
 and down about the kitchen stove on l a cold winter morning A woman
 who watched him this morning said i that he wore his shoes off his feet | tramping all the way from Maine but
 her companion thought this was not so and insisted that the man was saving his cowhides for the return trip
 to the Pine Tree state. The local carr
 penters say that some of the help
 brought in are fairly good workmen 1 but the rest are not carpenters at all
 tsWe are not going to take any notice
 of them," said one of the Waterbury
 workmen. If the bosses prefer to l pay them more than we would work
 for and people who have work to do
 are satisfied with that kind of trca;
 ment, all right, but think before flls I summer is over everybody will laH willing to admit that the carpenters o Waterbury are well worth what the ! asked for while most of these wosls Lbe dear at any price. After they thin lithis matter over they will change ltheir minds and come to the conclus
 sion that there is nothing unreason7 Table in our position. suppose you l have noticed that we are making no boasts about what we can do. We l don't intend to resort to quest10naDie tactics to further our cause. ana be- lieve that by behaving ourselves as 4 citizens should, the justice of our de- i mands will soon be recognized by the | employers of Waterbury and the pubT' lie as we'll will wonder why this thing was not strengthened out before ir reached point where the men felt. obliged to stop working.
 "Oh,oJ remarked one of the bosses l in answer to a question us to how he
 was getting along, there's something
 wrong all around. < We can't do busi- ness this way" Damn it,Y he con tinued. growing white with rage cit isn't question of pay. It is the Oth- | CT things. Telling a man that be mustn't put anybody to work unless he has a union card and refusing to turn hand at anything that does not
 properly come under their. line of
 work If joiner had to put a pipe out of his way he would tell you that
 was something for the plumber and if
 plumber found it necessary to bore hole in board he would sit down
 and wait until a carpenter came along
 to do it, instead of doing it himself
 and getting out of the way. All this tomfoolery is annoying and employers
 cannot stand for 1t. The additional cost comes out of people who are hav- ing work done and the contractors get rats about it when they come to col lect their money. I'm not satisfied
 with the present order of things, but prefer to put up with it rather than
 be under the thumb of men who wont
 be satisfied unless they can run, your
 business. If your boss pays you 2 good days wages and uses you right in, nf Iof ?, |
 more have you a right to expect of him2 Employers of labor have lots of things to contend with that their heID know nothing about and probably If they did they wouldn't give hurrah so long as they got what was coming to them Half the contractors are poorer than most of the men who are working for them and I think the trouble experienced in drumming un money to meet their legitimate ex- nenses is one reason why most Of aia idea of importing men here from other towns but what else can we do when our own men refuse to work? What do they want us to do? Lie down and Ter them wipe their feet on us? Me- are not going to do that l think we have gone too far in that direction Cor our own good and I don't think the public gained anything by 1t, either's
 1t was said today that the lumber- men had snapped the moose that held them to the organization which denied them the right to dispose of their stock to who want to buy One of them told a representative of this pa per that man who has lumber to sell should be at liberty to sell it at n price that suits himself and to whom soeyer he wishes and that he believes the same rules should apply to a man whose stock in trade is labor ssNow. then" he added. Eff I refuse to sell lumber and give reason that Pm held back by an organization, what can say tosmy workmen when they come to me and say that they cannot dis. pose of their labor only under certain condissqns because their organization will mss allow them7''