The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-13
BREAKING POINT
NEARING CRISIS
Chief Stone of Engineers De-
cIares Dispute Over Rules
Is Close to Breach Now.
COUNTRY MAD FOR SPEED
Declares One Out of Every 81
Men In Brotherhood Is Killed
Every Year.

New Haven, Oct. 13-The engineers
and firemen of the New Haven road
are at the breaking point with the
road in the dispute over the new rules
of the company. Tt has been known
that strike vote had been taken and
that the engineers and firemen were
not in the mood to back down. 1t
was not known, however, until last
night that the breaking point had
come. At service In the Howard
avenue Congregational church, War
rem s. Stone, grand chief of the
otherhood. of Locomotive yEngi-
neers, made the unqualified state
ment that the men and the road were
at the point of a breach.
The trouble has been over the new
rules in reference to promotion re-
Gently promulgated against the pro-
test of the men by General Manager
Bardo. The men have insisted that
promotion from the ranks of firemen
to engineers should be in the order
of seniority. all other things being
equal, while the road has contended
that it had the right to promote upon
its own standard of efficiency without
reference to seniority.
STONES COMING AN OMEN.
The sumnaoning of Grand Chief
stone was the last step by the men
dered without the sanction of the
grand officers and on Saturday Stone
and p. J. McNamara. vice-president
of the firemen, came. here. They at
once had a conference with President
Howard Elliott of the road, at which
the position of the men was stated.
Yesterday there was a meeting of
the BROTHERHOOD of Engineers in
Steinert hail. Chief Stone addressed
them and reviewed the conference
with President Elliott and also advis-
ed them ais to their course in the pres
ent difficulty. While no one in au-
thority would make a statement to
that effect it would appear that the
national officers have already en-
dorsed the stand made by the men.
That means of course that there will
be a strike unless somebody recedes
from the position taken and from
information gathered last night it
does not seem probable that the men
will recede.
The service at the Howard avenue
Congregational church was arrang-
ed for the members of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, rail-
road men and their families. 1t was
under the joint auspices of the How
ard Avenue Congregational church,
the Howard Avenue Baptist church,
Speakers were the Rev. o. B.. Colt.
who presided. the Rev. A. L. Scales.
pastor of the Congregational church,
the sRev. Robert @. Denison OF United
church and Warren S. Stone.
COUNTRY MAD OVER SPEED
Chief Stone was the last speaker.
After touching upon the history Of
the labor movement which he said
was the history of the world, he con-
tinued: Even If you are not inter
ested in labor men there is just one
labor organization IN which you
should be Interested, and that is the
organization of railroad men. You
entrust to them daily your loved ones
and the members of these organize
lions to take them and bring them
home safe to you.
1.-The people of this country have
gone stark, staring mad upon the
question of speed and we in the trans
portation service are paying for that
insanity with the blood of the best of
us Since this meeting began. into
some home in this country has gone
a. little: yellow slip informing a. wife
or mother that a loved one has been
killed in his cab One Of us is killed
in every two hours and seventeen
minutes. A man is injured every six
minutes.