Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-17
DANlELSON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

At the office of the Manhasset Man ufacturing company Friday afternoon, it was stated that there is gradu- al increase iii the amount of niaehin- cry in operation at the big plant, where weavers went out on strike a | week ago Thuisday. Nearly 100 | looms were running Friday afternoon, Agent Lown stated, and there is a steady drifting back of employees who | went out on strike. Every confidence ] was expressed that the worst of the | strike period is over. The beginning | of the coming week, 1t is confidently i expected, will show another increase | in the number of looms in operation
 This particular strike is one that seems to be doomed to failure. From the first it has not had the sympathy of the public, nor have the strikers seemed to have any real grievance of real leadership. The sfike, however, has been conducted with the very best order. There have been no dis turbances, nor any untoward deyel- opment
 The Manhasset company's weavers when they went out on strike, were
 the highest paid and still are, of any
 working on cotton in this section of
 the state. The stories of their high weekly wage, oft repeated by them S0lNSS dIlQ OlIleTS u WOTh6LS WnO dIS getting far less than they, is a chief reason why the sympathy of the pub 1 lie has not been with them in the present controversy, no matter how generally the principle of an eight hour day is approved by workers. The attempt to tie up this big plant, which is one of the chief industries of | the city, has not struck a popular 1 chord with the public. All realize | that dissatisfied workers retain their right to seek employment where 1 they will, and all realize, too, that
 those who are dissatisfied, or who
 have. pretended to be- with conditions
 at Manhasset, are well aware that no
 better job in a similar mill awaits
 them, wherever they go.
 This city gave birth to another strike Friday morning, when workers for the Linberg and Street company,
 contractors engaged with the paving
 of Grove street, quit work after their
 demand for an increase from 50 to 50 cents an hour, for laborers. was: not
 promptly complied with. During the
 morning it was stated that the fore
 man in charge of the work asked for T time to confer with the headquart-
 CTS office of the company, in Massa-
 chusetts, before giving a final an
 sWer to the men. AS it rained, any
 way, during practically all of Friday
 the work would have been held up in
 any event. It is expected that a set
 tlement of this newest labor trouble
 may be looked for within a few days The men% who went on strike-the group numbering a few less than 20 } has been engaged in e.;cavating tC , remove the old surface of the street ] preparatory to the cement layers $ taking up their work.
 Mr. Mary Warren, GA, wife of Chas Warren, is dead at their home il t Eastford.
 : A story given wide circulation her
 Friday is to the effect that some o 1 l the carpenters who went on strike fo 1 Q minimum wage of $1 an hour, tw, r weeks ago, are employed out of towl t for 80 and S5 cents an hour and il e addition are paying carfare to am
 from their work. The striking car = penters here refused a compromis g offer from the master builders o e ST 1-2 cents an hour, an advance o e1 12 1-2 cents over the T5 cents pe o hour rate they had been receiving. "Souvenir" w. H. Taylor of Hart
 ford is in possession of another prize c autographed letter from citizen c e nation wide. prominence-Cham CIar t of Missouri, former speaker of tn e house and a candidate for presiden n eight years ago. The letter from NJ | Clark came to Mir. Taylor in acknowl = edgement of the receipt of a revie' = book which MT. Clark recently ha 3 caused to be published.
 e 'If you ever come to Washington = come and see me and take lunch wit $ me-" the famous congressman write in his cordial letter to Mir. Taylor an e his signature is preceded by 'yoU ,f friend"
 'l MT. Clark also tells Mr. Taylor i '+ the letter that his (Mr. Clark's) .fatt ' CTS people landed in Connecticut x, 1852.
 y Always a live wire, MT. Taylor -s taking Q real interest in the move ,f ment to preserve the Mark Iva os home in Hartford. He has suggeste Ls as a slogan: Mark this: No one ca 1 I'cut our love for Twain in twain" l. Mr. Taylor will be present todd ,, (Sat1lrfayA i77 H@~tford at the Sprir
 meeting of the Connecticut Editori
 association. N.liUn .ie founded ,- January, 1888.
 l. More than a dozen automobile " purchased by local dealers in Detro ol and Cleveland, are en route to tn st city. They are being driven ove r. land by men sent out from Putnar lg Freight embargoes, strikes and oth , III transportation delays obligate the al tomobiIe dealers to send their mt .- west in order to make certain tn II ia the cars arrive here.
 of L. M. Woodward, a travelling sale o+ + man with headquarters in this cit aar has been showing his lines in liar N ford this week and has met with fiji ,,, success there.
 Il Austin Stevens, who died recent lg in North Ashford at the age of $ ut never rode on a steam train or
 electric car. He tried a ride in |; Id