The Connecticut labor news., 1922-10-13
Forced to Leave Ship Yards With Engine Repairs Because of Great Damage Done. BardO Picks Best Men" From Strike breaking Crew.

ne New Haven road" shops at
 Cedar Hill will be ''re-opened" 'on Monday next. according to a
 blatant announcement. made by
 the road officials yesterday and
 the roads engine repairs will
 be started there pending, accord
 ing to the announcement, the
 completion of added facilities to the Cedar Hill yards. Th9 shops will also handle the car/ repair work, temporarily. so the state ment goes on, and a general tone of gleefulness prevails, An which the community is naively asked to join. There isn't suggestion
 of strike of repair men-that's all over, if you would believe the road, the shops are simply going to be re-opened and Allah Bardo should be praised.
 All of which would be very well and of real interest to the city and railroad workers if it was more than partly true. There IS going to be an attempt to re- sume work at the Cedar Hill shops on Monday, but the reason for 1t is not that the road means to resume business on the old scale but because it is being fired out of the, Groton Iron Works shops and must have some place in which to carry on the few re- pairs it has been attempting to make to its rolling stock. Sev- enty-hve strikebreakers who have been employed at the Groton works will be brought to work at Cedar Hill Monday which with the eight or ten men already there will make an august force to carry on the repair work.
 In connection with the story pub lished in The Labor News a few weeks ago relative to the lease of the Groton shops being cancelled it de- veloped this week, according to ad- vices received from within the shops by leaders of the shopmen's strike, that the road is actually being kicked out of the place because of the enor- nous damage that has been done to the plant through the railroad repair work. According to this information, and ii is reliable, officials of the ship ping board which still has sort of control over the ship works, say more than $5o,ooo worth of damage has been done to the plant by the roads attempts to have its. heavy engines pushed in there for repairs The dam age was continuing at such rate that 1t IS stated the road was ordered to take its work elsewhere It had made contract for six months with one Wragg, contractor, and 1t, is stated now that Wragg is going to hold the road to the full terms of .the agree ment, whether or not the repairs are done through him.
 General Manager Bardo went to Groton on Wednesday and told the men employed on repair work that the shops would have to be closed so far as the New Haven road repairs are concerned. There were perhaps 200 men employed on railroad repairs and MT. Bardo told them that about 75 "of the best mechanics" would be transferred to the Cedar Hill shops on Monday and that about the same number (still of the "best mechanics") would be sent to the shops at Mid way. The rest of them could go any where they chose as far as Bardo was That then is the reason for the GRAND RE-OPENING of the Cedar Hill shops next Monday.
 The road in its announcement of the re-opening makes a naive bid for the return of the men who left the shops on July l. Its arrogance is all hIIf hofac mi fho men although more than ready to take them back as the following from the announcement would indicate:
 Former employees in the locomo tive and freight car departments who desire to re-enter the service may make application to the employment office in the passenger station, and will be given consideration to the ex- tent that vacancies in the forces to be for these purposes may ex-