The Connecticut labor news., 1922-09-29
STRIKE COST ROAD OVER 8 MILLIONS IN TWELVE WEEKS New Haven Feeling Strain of Enorn1- ouS Expense and Fires
 Guards.
According to authoritative informa-

According to authoritative informa- l ton secured by officials of the Shop mems Union, 1t has cost the New Ha- ven railroad $S,ooo,ooo to fight the unions during the past I2 weeks, and that conditions are worse today than at any time since the strike started, on July 1st.
 That officials of the New Haven are feeling the burden of this colossal ex- penditure is attested by the fact that during the week nearly all the guards l were discharged and that strikebfeak- CTS, so shopmen's officials were told, and boarding places, as it has been planned to discontinue the mess hall used by them since the strike was started.
 What seemed like a quick settle
 ment to the shopmen last week looks to them now as if the works have been
 gummed, and that it may be several weeks yet before the Baltimore agree n1ent has been fully understood and in such manner as to satisfy all ShopTnen that their seniority rights won't be impaired.
 News to the effect that President A. H. Smith of the New York Central had agreed to the Baltimore plan was welcomed Under the # Baltimore agreement, as understood by local shopmen's officials, the wages are to remain as they were prior to July I, and that the employees seniority rights were to remain the same.
 But local railway officials interpret this differently, claiming that the strikers are to return as new men, from fhe.5tiIre they started, preferenee being given to the men who stayed in and those who were hired as strike breakers.
 This the shopmen won't stand for, even though they may be ordered to resume their jobs under these condi- tions by their superiors We fought for I2 weeks to retain those rights, and by no means do we intend to give them up" officials said, and add ed: We feel satisfied that all the railroads are in terrible shape. This IS attested to by the fact that trains are running on anywhere from one to 10 hours late, and are in full posses sion of facts that satisfy us that the rolling stock Is in worse shape than it has been at anNtine since the strike was started"
 According to these officials, about Go Class A roads, including the New York Central, which controls the Bos- ton & Albany, have signed the Ba1ti- more agreement, and that more are signing up every day. In no city in the country, they say, have the shop men returned to work, and won't un- til they receive orders from headquar- ters. This they say, won't occur un- til a certain number of roads have signed up, which must reach the 100 mark or more.
 No fears are entertained by local of hcials but what the New Haven and Boston & Maine will follow suit inn mediately following settlement made by the Boston & Albany, as condi- tions will compel them to do so. For instance" they say, with the New York Central settled it will mean that thousands of freight cars from the west will be thrown into the termin- als of the New Haven and Boston & Maine
 With their present forces of shop men who are unable to keep even a 1 small portion of the rolling stock in | running order, it will certainly be inn possible to handle the extra large traf- | fc that is bound to come when the l New York Central gets into real rum ] ming shape"