The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-08
ShOpmen's Board Pro- tests to GOmpers, HutchesOn and Jewell Against Action of Garry, Paid Agent and Now Acting as Head of Roads Com pany Union.

1OmpGrS, preSl0ent or the "A. r |. of L.; to William E. Hutcheson, grand president of the Brother hood of Carpenters, and to B. M. Jewell, president of the Railway Department of the A. F. of L., was sent today by the executive council of the striking railroad shopmen on the New Haven road against the actions of Edward T. Garry, a paid organizer of the Carpenters Union and who is now acting as president of the
 Company union organized on the New Haven system to break the regular unions. In the pro- test was also included Edward Walker of Readville, Mass, an- other man carrying carpenter s card and who is acting as secre- tary of the company union.
 Garry resides in Stratford and is not even employed as mechanic by the New Haven road, but instead, according to the information given to the strikers board, is regularly paid agent of the Carpenters His efforts to assist the railroad in breaking the shop crafts unions have on three diff ferent occasions been brought to the attention of MT. Jewell and by him turned over to the carpenters grand lodge. Protests have been made also to local officers, but as they have. no Jurisdiction over Garry they are un- able to do anything. The protests sent this morning were therefore made to the heads of all organiza- lions who could control him and the demand made that he either be re- moved or compelled to stop his ac- tions. Just to what lengths Garry is stopping to assist the road, the fol- lowing letter sent out by him this week shows:
 Mechanical Department Association,
 New Haven Railroad System.
 September 5, 1922. ITO Our Members:
 Labor Day with all of its trials and tribulations, and heavy traffic, has come and gone. Our newly formed association has been tested in the fire heretofore required the very best ef- forts of full complement of men who have grown up Tn the service We can take justifable pride and deep satisfaction in the knowledge that our members have carried on through this, the most severe test of the year, in way that has enabled the management to safely operate heavy train schedule for the comfort and convenience of the great crowd who took advantage of this holiday period
 Close observation leads unmistak- ably to the fact that we have traitors within our camp. From develop ments which have taken place within the past "A hours we believe that these traitors come from the ranks of the strikers, employed under as- stunned names, exercising all of their ingenuity for the very definite pur- pose of crippling the power and ere ating in the minds of the management doubt as to the ability and efficiency of our members.
 "It behooves each and every mem Der of this association, to make 1t his business to see what his neighbor Is doing, and to make sure that no em- ploye, sailing under the guise of loy- atty, will be afforded an opportunity or be permitted to interfere in any way with the equipment All of these 
 issued by and in behalf of our Fed eral government. They are punish able under the law by fine or impris- onment or both.
 Loyalty, the keystone of our Con- stitution and bylaws, is being put to the test. It is our obligation to see that no single individual fails in this respect.
 We are over the hill' and with that determination, born of true spirit of loyalty and efficiency, we can promptly eradicate traitors and malcontents, and within the next 30 days restore the power and equip ment of the New Haven system to a higher standard of efficiency than maintained on July Ist, when the strike was called.