The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-24
STRIKING SHOPMEN ARE
 CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
FEEL THAT THE TIME
 OF SETTLEMENT IS NEAR
Conditions Are Such That Stockholders and Pub
 lie Must Take Hand and Force Officials to . Render the Service Required.

More than 1000 strikers and theIT friends gathered at Moose Hall in Court street, last night, to hear re- ports of conditions on. the New Ha- ven. road from a member of the ex- ecutive board, and feeling of conf dence that the long struggle would soon be brought to successful close was apparent on all sides. Frank T. Gilhuly, secretary of the striking shopmen, acted as chairman of the meeting and after a few words in which he said:
 ''We still hear that everything is normal On the other hand it is i'm possible for New England manufac- turers to ship or receive products for their factories. Plants are either closed down or running part time This means that many laborers are out of work. The brass factories Of Waterbury are good examples.
 We have the New Haven road licked and you women present tonight ought to encourage your husbands, sons and brothers. You have been told otherwise by outsiders. They do not know the truth.
 We used to turn out four or five engines every week. In the past six weeks only six engines have been turned out at the local shops There may be a settlement for us only 24 hours away"
 MT. Gilhuly then introduced the principa lspeaker of the evening, member of the executive board, James Martin. Tn opening his address Mr. Martin took a fling at the claims sent from the office of the New Haven road that the road was now i'll a~norr mai condition once more and said: c1o hot .1 maj is still in the air,
 However, if this is normalcy, what was 1t when we were at the head? ' It was Paradise. If only the stockholders would see for them selves, they would soon learn that the railroad is fast slipping away from them We would be able to give them three engines, while now they are only able to have one.''
 The speaker then continued by saying: "It Is impossible for Bardo to bring in an efficient mechanical department with the riff-raf that he has brought in to take our places. It has been said that if there is a coal shortage, 1t is the fault of the rail roads. However, there are cars and coal Mr. Ford bought it for $3.5o a ton at the mines, but said that if he lIdu WdllCu AN IOuIS nave Cl1dSEu the. coal for $2.5 5o The poor mas is forced to pay $28 for ton of coal when he buys it by the bag. That's the way the poor must buy it or suf- fer from cold. In spite of all that, coal is now being shipped to Europe
 Labor has created things. Capital is the fruit of labor. Therefore, labor ought to get fair share in the cap ital of their efforts. England was in bad state of affairs during the war economically The United States in the future will be in the same predica- ment.
 "The future citizenship of the United States vii lsuffer, will be un- derfed, and undereducated due to low wages The men and the women of this nation ought to stand up for the : railroaders in their fight for decent wages We stand with our backs to the wal land must keep on fighting and fighting. All branches of labor will benefit when the railroaders win out, We are trying to keep the la borers from going back into indus trial slavery.
 "Your children will point to New Haven and Say that their dads fought the fight that gave them the heritage. That heritage is that the American laborer need not wear the shackles, of slavery, ~ aA