The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-25
Two Trucks Badly Damaged By Drivers
 Or Sympathizers
Attorney Larkin Denies Issuing Statement That Strike Has ColIapsed-Tata Appeals to Unions, House.
 N. wives; Attacks Local Working Conditions

they had no opportunity to check on but were missing from their loads when they went out to de- liver their loads.
 s. Men, who though they toiled 60 to 90 hours weekly had to de- pend partly on the charity insti. tutes of the city to keep their families properly fed and clothed which is the right of every hon. est worker in this fair land of ours.
 6. Men, who were as much en- slaved to their employers as were our American slaves of old, due to the fact that they were always indebted to their employers for Q week or two's wages because they could not exist on the wages they were receiving.
 These, were some of the condi- tions we found in the fruit and produce industry when we organ- ized 1t.
 These are the conditions, spon- sored by the employers who are now calling the strikers Commun- ists and radicals for trying to get out from under their fvrannical rule.
 It should bo nothing for the people to wonder about to sec ems ployers spending magnificent sums for strikebreakers and police protection to protect their little slave kingdoms which they have ruled undBputed as Lords of tho realm.
 They are taking their present stand in this matter because they are trying to profit from the ex. perience of the produce industry in other localities where it was found to the sorrow of the unfor. tunate worker that men in tho industry who were receiving low wages would be brought to their knees economically after . few weeks out on strike due to the fact that they never received enough compensation for their labor to put aside anything for an emergency or to even Do able to establish C credit.
 With this thought in mind I cannot condemn too severely any men out on strike who may return to work, but I cannot upon my oath as an officer of the Ainers lean Federation Of Labor allow this pressure by the employers to have mo call off the strike of the TeamStefs and by 50 doing allow the workers involved to submit to condition even worse than those previously stated in retaliation for their going out Oil strike against their employers and eaus- ing them the embarrassment and added costs for the operations stated above.
 I have called upon the Central Labor Union of Waterbury in my capacity as president Of that body Co send out a committee to solicit the support Of all the iner- chants in Waterbury to boycott the products of oil the fruit and produce merchants in Waterbury with the exception of Musante, Berman & stionberg and Randall Brothers in the honest hope that the same economical pressure that the unfair employers are using against their men will act as e boomerang and cause to be of no avail tho high.prieed strikebreak. CTS and special policemen now in their employ.
 The strike will still Dc supports cd by tho Tcamsters and no de- liveries will Do made by the union trucking concerns until . signed contract guaranteeing tho men against reprisals for their actions is signed in good faith by the ein. ployefs,
 Wo ask the housewives of the city to insist that the stores where they buy their goods buy