The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-12

city of Waterbury through danger to its gas supply. According to the re- port an engine that had drawn up on
 the tracks beside the city's gas sup
 ply tanks stalled and the crew sud denly jumped off crying for aid to quench the fire under the boilers. The water injectors had refused to work and the boiler was in danger
 of exploding. All the yard gang and clerks fled for safety, but gang of track workers stood by and by
 shoveling snow onto the fires put
 them out before the boiler blew up.
 The adjacent gas tanks are Water
 bury's sole supply, according to the
 report, and so close was the disabled
 engine to them, that had it exploded,
 the railroad workers declare,J the
 tanks would have also been blown up
 and great disaster occurred.
 The report, which is signed by Sec
 retary Robert Henderson of System
 Federation No. Y, declares the New
 Haven road is down and out and as
 far as the Boston district is con-
 cerned 1t is foolish to bother with
 giving more details. Answer is made
 to an article in a Boston paper call
 ing for flair play for the New Ha- van road," asserting that even crin- inals have a right to be heard. The report agrees and says that tn road has had it's chance to be heard as court and other testimony amply prove.
 Quoting from an article in the New York Bureau-Central News the re- port says:
 "The strikt of the shopmen on the New Haven has resulted in an ab- normal increase in maintenance of equipment expenses. In November the New Haven expended $2,764,ooI on maintnance of equipment, the largest expenditure in that depart ment in years, and comparing with an average expense of $2,28o,ooo a month in all of last year. The No vember gain was $ooI,oo5, or nearly ! as much as the combined increase | in August, September and October of equipment expenses the gain from July to Mo- vember, inclusive, amounting to ST. ,84715, whereas during the five prior to July there was S1, ,626, ,ooo decrease: It can therefore De appreciated that the strike cost he New Haven at least $3,ooo,ooo turing the five months ended with November The ratio of mainte- nance of equipment expenses to rev ,nues has also been abnormal since he strike. The November ratio ol .5.3 per cent was the peak in many npnths, and more than 5 per cent bove the October ratio.''
 The above does not contain ex ,enses for unnecessary police pro ection during the strike and man Dther items of expense. Where i he New Haven heading?
 Quoting the Boston article agai1 he report says:
 "On July I, 5,4oo New Haven shop ( len struck. On October 24, the l oad had another force of 5,4oo mer t work. On December 9 there were i ,3I3 on the job. On December go. ( 400 men were at work in the New f Haven shops, roundhouses and ter { linals, on the repairs of locomotives ( nd cars"
 What kind of workmen are these e wmen? In the first place, if the pad had 5,4oo men Oct. "A, and 6,3I3 ec. 9, and 1atterly 6,4oo Dec. 2o, this ith their statement that they have yer 100 locomotives farmed out for 1 ,pairs, some of them since the first eek in July, what in the name of are and have this force men been doing, that the equip ent is in such a dangerous condi- on and such deplorable service is .ing rendered to the public?