Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-28
HANDLERS STRIKE.
President Curran Brands Cor
 porations as Robbers.
ARE NO HONEST MILLIOyAIRES.
Head of Freight Handlers Union COunsels Moderation RailrOad Charged With ArminE Strike
 Breakers With RevOIvers.

Breakers With RevoIvers.
 NEW YORK, May 2S-Branding cor porations as robbers and declaring there was no such thing as an honest millionaire, as they could never get that amount of money without robbing some one, Lawrence J. Curran, presi- dent of the International Freight Han dlers' union, addressed meeting of enthusiastic striking employees of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company at Ienox lyceum, in East Broadway.
 Almost 250 men were present at the meeting. In the course of his address Curran also hinted that money had caused the leaders of the Truck Driv-i ers' association to sign a years agree ment with the employers.
 Curran began by counseling modera- tion and urging the men not to use violence. If the men owned revolvers or knives he advised them to leave them at home and avoid trouble. He had talked a considerable time about the strike, it's cause and its outlook, when he branched off to the subject OA COl pOIdIAO4AS hl1O
 After speaking of George F. Baer, president of the Reading railroad, as Divine Right Baer," Curran said:
 MT Rockefeller is very generous man, man who has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Chicago university. have been out to the uni versity many times, but never saw any workingmen there.
 U. F. Morgan is another generous man. He goes to Europe and buys a painting for $160,000 that no one has ever heard of or seen or cares to see. He would better give the $16O,OO0 to the laboring man in wages. It would do him more good and then he would save the reputation he has lost among us.
 s'Corporations are robbers and crush the poor man. There is no such thing as an honest millionaire, as one man cannot get that amount of money without robbing some one"
 Curran declared the main object of the New Haven company was to crush the Freight Handlers union, adding that the company would not be satis- fled until the union had been killed.
 "1he railroads tried that same game cago two years ago" the speaker con- tinued "but they failed. The union won, and unionism was never stronger in Chicago than it is today. The New Haven officials say they are handling all their freight, but if that is the case I would like to ask them about the 2,2OO cars that are sidetracked because there is no one to unload them"
 As result of the shooting at the Brooklyn bridge by Italians who had been taking the places of the striking New Haven freight handlers action may be taken by District Attorney Je- rome to indict certain officials of the New York, New Haven and Hartford the Italians who were arrested had new pistols on them. These were Smith Sc Wesson reyolvers of an mex pensive kind, but the fact that they were new and that each man seemed to have one led to an investigation.
 The men when questioned said that the pistols were furnished to them by their bosses at the Fall River and Sto- nington piers in order that they might protect themselves if attacked by strik- CTS. When a brick was shied at them they did use them, with the result that Park row took oh the atmosphere of a western bad town in about minute.
 About POO Italians walked out, of the sheds at Piers IS and 19 North river and refused to return to work This gave the company a setback, but with the few men who remained they were able to load the City of Fall River of the Fall River line, and she got away from her dock about an hour late.
 When asked why the Italians had quit, Captain J. W. Miller said: "It was because of the attack made upon them last night. I suppose they were afraid they would be killed if they waited to go to their homes atthe usual hour for quitting"