Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-07-26
|MOUIDERS ARE RESTLESS
Ths Msn At Fanel foundly Threaten to Co On Stiks Next Saturday.

It is rumored that on Saturday might about forty moulders employed by the Waterbury Farrell Foundry pnd Machine company will quit work
 bnless they receive raise, In pay. The officers of the company assert that no formal demands have been made on them. by the workmen and say that as far as they know the men have no grievance.
 It is said that the mOulders want the minimum scale of wages to be $3 l per day while they claim now the minimum Is $2.75. It seems that some weeks ago their union sent q i Communication to General Manager Lamb If the foundry but as the fac i tory had no agreement with them the communication received very little attention and was never answered. . The company regarded 1t as sort of a l circular which the union sends out to l any factory which it has an agree ment with 1t, consequently the ofti- cials did not see why they should an swer 1t. A reporter of the Democrat called upon President w. E. Fulton to-day. MT Fulton stated that as far as he was aware the moulders had no grievance, and the first news of the proposed strike came to his ears this morning. He said that the moulders ct the factory were receiving better wages than in other factories and as far as he knew there had been no demands made for an increase. There is no minimum or maximum, in our shop; the men are paid what they deserve. At present the mould CTS are receiving from 30 to 40 cents an hour, nine hours constituting a days work" he continued.
 When asked if the company had received no communication from the moulders' union in regard to the re- vision of the wage scale, he replied that MT Lamb received some kind of notice from the union a few weeks ago, but the company did not think 1t should answer 1t, as such communications had never been an- swered. We try to make 1t as pleas ant as possible for our employees, he went on, land know when talk to them individually they see the evil effects of striking. But when these walking delegates get 1t into the workmen's heads to strike there Is no holding them. think the unions are the biggest trusts in the world and when men threaten to strike, think 1t is the next thing to murder" When MT Fulton was ask ed again If he had not the slightest idea what grievance the men had, he replied, "I tell you they have no grievance"
 General Manager Lamb was also very willing. to state what he knew about the rumored strike. We have no agreement with the moulders and when we received a communication from them some time ago in regard to a new scale, we thought nothing about 1t. We do not carry on our business in that manner. was just looking over the books and find that the moulders receive on the av- craze $3 per day. As Mir Fulton has told you. we pay our men what they deserve in the moulding department as we'll as in all other departments. but do not think there is any moul- der getting less than $2.75 per day. We dislike very much to have any trouble with our men and in this case I don't see where the men have any complaint" Notwithstanding these statements, 1t Is stated that the men are dissatisfied and are on the verge of striking. William Man ton is in charge of the moulding de- partment.
 There is also rumors of labor trou- ble in another factory in this city and 1t may come to point on Saturday evening. IL is said that two or three shops are having trouble with some of their workmen and the men may go out at any moment It Is some |, time since there was strike In any of the factories which amounted to much. but 1t seems there is more dis \ content this summer than there has been for long time.