Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-14
WAITING FOR TUESDAY.
People Hope to See Some Settlement
 of Strike Then.


 There is nothing new to report in the strike situation. Some of the bosses expect q settlement of the diff ferences before Tuesday, but none or them cares to say what reasons they have for saying so. There IS not much likelihood of the carpenters yielding and if the contractors refuse to recognize their demands, then the thing will have to, settle itself. There are so many people on the streets to- day one would think almost every place of business i'll town was closed and that the public was enjoying full Saturday holiday Some of the fac- tories are closed and large numbers of the men folks and quite few of the women spent the day sightseeing about town. Many of them were ac- companied by their children and ap- peared just as happy as if they were being Whirled along ill q chaise with a liveried servant holding the ribbons over a span of horses, and no doubt they were, for great means are not at all essential to real happiness. A man who is blessed with good health tries to be satisfied with himself and the world, while at the same time losing no favorable opportunity to better his condition, extracts almost as much enjoyment out of life as one can have. If he gets out of sorts with himself and his neighbOrS and makes noun tains out of mole hills. he will be ill hot water until he goes into the grave, for he will always see some thing to fret about and as 8 result he will not only be source of trouble to himself. but also to others. Life is too short for this kind of business and a man is a fool to speLl moment in l tears if he can wear a smile instead There is an abundance of capital in 1 Waterbury, lots Of work and no scar city of help. With such conditions as these Waterbury ought to be pros porous and happy, but unfortunately l this is not so Whats the matter ?
 Labor says capital is not using it right and capital insists that labor is demanding more than they can afford | to pay for it. Is there no tribunal be- fore whom the contending parties can appear and have this question settled in such a way that the business of he l city may go on without interference.
 There are a great many wise heads on
 both sides and they ought to be able l to see way out of it themselves. l Things cannot last as they are much I longer without something dropping l that cannot be replaced on time to prevent serious consequences. To l morrow will be the Sabbath day and | the bosses and the men could not spend a portion of it to better advan- 1 tage than in praying for speedy ad- | justment of this tieup in the building 1 trade which has been on too long al
 ready It is in their hands to settle l this trouble and thus stave off what 1 threatens to culminate in a serious public calamity. The amount of
 money. that has been lost to the work l ing people since this strike started, al- I though it is but couple of weeks
 old, is enormous. and to make the sit
 uation worse most of it is due to peo- | pie who are in no sense responsible I for the snarl and can i'll afford to ! wait for so much of it as belongs to ! them The present labor trouble is
 more far-reaching than some people
 suppose and if it drags on during the
 summer some folks will feel the ef- l feet of it more keenly next winter ! than they do at this, time.
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