The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-29
DIRECTORS OF
 NEW HAVEN ROAD
 HAVE TO BE SHOWN
They Take Inspection Trip Over Entire System and See for Them
 selves Condition of Road

Striking shop craftsmen through their publicity committee announce the departure of President E. J. Pear son of the New Haven road III com pany with Harry C. Oviatt and Gem eral Manager C. L. Bardo, members
 of the board of directors and heads
 of the various mechanical depart ments of the road on tour of in spection of the system.
 The party is said to have left in special cars early Wednesday morn ing headed for New London. The shopmen claim that this is an undeniable indication that the road officials fear the actual condition of 1the rolling stock, both cars and en- zines.
 headquarters that many of the old runs are talking of bidding in short
 runs or jobs in the yards because they are afraid to take out engines that they are called upon to run over the road.
 The following statement was issued at strikers headquarters:
 "The shopmen's strike has now entered and we'll advanced into the sixth month and the fact still re- mains that the strikers are almost 100 per cent as they came out on uly Ist, as the few assertions from their ranks are too insignificant to be given consideration The rail officials have been leading the public to believe that the strike was over, that the men had lost the strike and that many of the strikers had returned tot work. These statements were, of course, untrue and misleading to the public for a time, but, they (the public) are just awakening to the duplicity of the rail officials, that is, through the bitter experience they are going through by the deplorable service the railroads are serving out to them just now.
 Passenger trains are leaving and arriving at stations anywhere from five minutes to five hours late, which entails a terrible inconvenience and great financial loss to thousands of the travelling public, and added to this the thousands of reight cars, loaded and unloaded laying in the New Haven railroad freight yards for the want of locomotives to move them, causing a financial loss to the public so great, that ii IS impossible to estimate.
 Many wrecks have occurred on various parts Of the railroad, through defective equipment, and 1t sure IS miracle that a large loss of life did not occur The passenger service, freight congestion and coal shortage Is bound to get worse as the winter advances, for even if, as the rail of hcials claim, that they have, a normal number of men (which IS mot true) that does not signify that the men can perform the work required, as ii takes years to train a railroad me- chanic to properly perform the varl- ous duties in each particular trade.
 "The deplorable service rendered by the New Haven would not exist now If the rail officials had agreed to meet a committee of the striking shop men during the month of September, which they through letters tried to bring about
 There is only one solution to the deplorabIe condition of the rail equip l ment, so that they may render efhc- l tent service to the public, and that is the return of the skilled ra1 ,em- ployes, which would in very short time alleviate the present delay in | passenger trains and the terrible con gestion of freight, but if the rail officials keep up their present atti- tude in refusing to meet and negoti- ate a settlement, then they surely | will and must be held responsible for the suffering to the public through | the railroad to properly perform it's duties"