Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-07

There was a short strike of the garment workers employed. by s. For man, who owns q cloak and millinery StorA at 100 South Main street. this week The men, 20 in number. went on strike on Wednesday afternoon and returned to work this morning, the trouble having been satisfactorily ad- justed
 During the summer months the mil linery and cloak trade is not very brisk and consequently owners of cloak establishments have to dispense with the help or the greater part of it during the months of July and August, This is a hardship upon the garment Workers. This year they decided to ask for steady employment during the summer time and to strike if it was not granted them. That was the cause of the strike on Wednesday,.
 Mir Forman wished to avoid any trouble with his helps and therefore devised a plan for furnishing steady to the men if he had to suffer q little financially. He accord ingly decided to grant the men steady work during the dull season and they in turn agreed to do the work a little cheaper Thus large quantity of cloaks and suits will be made cheaper than usually and Mir Formans custom CTS will receive the benefit of it. for the suits can be sold more cheaply when made at reduced prices.
 The men returned to work this morning and everything is again har- monious and in smooth working order
 There is nothing new in the strike question to-day. Some of the brick 1x,x most of them are idle and cannot re- turn to work whether they want to or not, until. something has been done about hodcarriers. A few men have been picked up here and there who can mix mortar and do turn with the bod, but the number is small compared with the demand, so that if the bosses and the union stand at different sides of the stream much longer all talk of q settlement will have been buried and then the hodcaTriers will be back to the point they started from Probably no organized body profited more by the union than the hodcarriers and other unskilled, laborers that work about buildings. They used to be treated shabbily once ill A while by the bosses and some Of the skilled work men were none too good to them. After they got together all this was changed and in time the hodcarriers became the key to the whole situation in labor troubles so far as they affect ed out of door operations. The brick layers and masons claim that it is non sense to talk of ignoring the hodcar- rlers' union and bringing men from other towns, because they say, they cannot be had, but the bosses do not think so and state that they can get them by the carload. NO disturbance has been reported from any quarter and while things jog along this way many will take but little notice of inc tie-up, although injury is being done all the same, and the men on strike are by no means the only ones who feel 1t. As many of the men as own property are up against stiff proposi- t1on. Their tax bills and water rents are bigger than ever and to make mat ters worse more than two-thirds of them have done practically nothing since last November Now if we have protracted strike the summer will be gone before it is over and as a result many will find themselves face to face with another winter and hear from the collector again before they will have earned enough to liqui- date the expenses they have already run up since last fall. Then there are landlords, butchers, grocers and va rious others who expect that all back bills due them by parties who were idle or on short time during the win ter will be paid up in the busy season, and if things don't come their way the prospect be- comes more serious at every step. It hits the owner of house worse than the man who rents tenement, be- cause if the worst comes the tenant can move out and take his property with him, leaving the landlord behind to pay the piper. This is not like the snarl on the trolley road. Tn that case while the public was put to some in- convenience, still if they didn't have the service it cost them nothing and