Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-02
FREIGHT FILING UP
No Agreement Yet Reached Be.
 tween Strikers and Officials.

Though a large force of men was at work to-day at the local freight sta tiops. the situation is still serious anu yet there is very little relief in sight, notwithstanding that the company maintains it has a sufficient amount of help to look after the handling of the freight. Assistant Superintendent Joseph H. Dunn declares that better progress is being made each day and that the situation looks promising.
 This morning a statement emanating from the company declared that there were seventy men at work including eight checkers who were doing their utmost to relieve the congested con ditions existing at the stations. Though the factories are worrylhs they have not yet made any complaint about the delay in receiving or send ing out freight and are making the best of the situation.
 According to the men in charge no freight has been turned away and any one who wishes to unload car is directed to and allowed to handle his own goods. It is admitted that more freight is being sent out than IS being unloaded, but the new employees are expected to empty many cars De- fore the end of the week.
 The situation at the Naugatuck sta ton is much better than at the High land, although MT Dunn thinks that in two days all the ears at the ht1ef station could be well taken care or. Even when the regular men were working it is said that at times there were as many as 300 ears with heavy freight waiting to be emptied.
 A well-known man who has been watching the situation the past few days and who knows something about i the freight business said this morn- ing that in his opinion very little pro- gress was made. He did not see where the conditions would be better cd by the men now doing the work, as he seemed to think that they were not able to cope with the situation.
 The police and detectives who dld duty at the station for the first two days of the strike were not in evi- dence to-day, although couple were to be seen.
 The few strikers who looked the Sit uation over to-day smiled as they saw how things were going and de- clared that it would be only day or two more when an awful howl would he sent out unless something turned up quickly which would make things 20 faster than the gait at which they are now travelling.
 The new men are accomplishing more than yesterday, but the freight is piling up much faster than they are handling it. and every day the job is getting heavier.
 NJ. ]. Leary arrived in town as us ual about II o'clock. but he did pot care to discuss the subject.
 Mir Dunn when asked if he thought the work of unloading and shipping would be we'll under way by to-mor' row said he did not care to he too confl- dent about it. though he asserted that much improvement was looked for
 It is surprising fact, but never theless true that many of the stores in this city only carry small line of certain goods and if the freight Is held up for any length of time, the strike will be felt considerably by many of the stores.
 The strikers are of the impression that they are still on top in the bat tie, while the factories and merchants are wondering where it will end.