The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-07

It was a solemn moment last Saturday when the men walked out They were told they were not strik- ing against the New Haven Road but against the government. Their wives and families had been told the same thing. But take the .walkout in the New Haven yards as an instance. Long before the hour set for the strike the fences along New Union avenue were lined with men, women and children, nine out of 10 Of them from the families of the men expected to come from the shops.
 Some of the women were crying, 1t IS, true, but many more kiddies were saying: Mama, is Pop coming?" to which, according to the writer's ears the mothers replied: ''If he isn't he needn't come home today" That was the sentiment all through the line that filled the long fence and that sentiment prevails today in the homes of the men who went out.
 Just before 10 o'clock a few scat tered men were seen leaving the shops and the cry went along the fence ''here they come" There was no whistle blown. There was TO ex- citement whatever. But silently more than GOO men walked out of the shops onto the company's yards. Many of these were in the habit of crossing the tracks as the nearest way home. Could they do it Saturday.? They employed over night herded them in line and made them cross the bridge leading to Spring street in body, unconsciously thereby making spec tacle which the leaders of the men could not have arranged had they planned to do so. It brought the men marching up the long stairs, tool boxes and bags on their shoulders, in a line that led even the Register re- porter 10 txclaim: By God, Billy, I didn't believe they could do it."
 Aside from the special railroad po- licemen a dozen or so New Haven cops stood at the bridge exit to start something should the strikers con gregate. Across the street were a couple of sergeants ready to take hold of the situation. Down the street was a captain sent out by the over-excited acting chief of police, but to give the acting chief credit he was only acting on railroad reports made to him of what might be expected but which nevertheless didn't happen. The men came over the bridge after being l of the shop gave a hand grasp and disappeared Ten minutes after Chair man Ready, (the last man out of the shops), came over there was not a striker to be found in the neighbor- hood. The cops went back to their beats and some of them to bed and thus ended the first episode in what is going to be an epoch in New Ha- ven railroading.
 This strike is authorized. The railroad says it is against the govern ment and is playing on that string. The newspapers controlled by the railroad, not perhaps directly, but in directly, have been harping on tie, same line. They have published false reports about the men returning to work these reports being furnished by the railroad company and being without an iota of foundation. Not a man who went out has yet returned to the job. To the railroad men 1t is unnecessary to say that But to the rest of Organized Labor in Connec- ticut and elsewhere the fact should be published.
 The New Haven papers are par ticularly (and especially The Regis ter) insistent that the strike is being broken and the men returning to work How different is the Hartford Courant, which itself is now in the throes of strike of its printers. In its issue of yesterday it says in big head lines: "NO WEAKENING ON PART OF STRIKERS, OPTIC