The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-26
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 part of the New Haven have they any interest in the welfare of the shipper or traveller all that has been done by them to give service has been made compul- sorry upon them by either law or popular demand.
 The argument of better performance based upon the last six months of 1910, wherein they show a saving in man and efficiency will in a great measure offset the increased labor cost and fuel cost referred to and which we will later show have been given too high a per centage of increase by the speaker. However, we are pleased to learn that the New Haven is gradually coming toward the class of roads that are being operated as such.
 Expressions of gratitude to the help ful group of Boston and New York banks who aided so much from 1914 to 1918 and during and after Federal con trol convinced the government of the necessity of coming to the aid of the New Haven, but gives additional proof of the oft repeated statement that rail roads are no longer transportation systems, but playthings of bankers used for experimentation and fly traps for fool investors. Railroads like oth CT we'll arranged businesses can con- duct their own affairs if intelligently directed and honestly.
 Much is said about the improvement of property and rolling stock and road bed, well that 1t is being given attention as to the strenuous complaints about the condition of the road few years bacl- were not given attention until long list of disastrous WreCkS were marked up to the disgrace of all concerned in the operation of the road. The wrecking O the Federal Express, the Springfield Express, the Merchants Limited and many others, still remain as vivid memories of these shambles caused by gross neglect and indifference as to the condition of road bed and trains. It is doubtful as to what would happen to the New Haven officials at the hands of an irate public if through their neglect they should again permit the slaughter of people as III years gone by.
 In entering upon a discussion of the present shopmen's strike it i'll behooves the New Haven to look about for some one to be made the goat, for let them remember that the road has in the past not been without some careful observer of their affairs and who could not be bribed or bought or frightened nor bullied, but just stood his ground, day
 
 New Haven is doing is wrong and could only end in disaster, and so in this in stance, we find a man who knows rail reading and who 1t was that invited this strike and strange to relate he too IS of the judiciary. Then like now the rail road newspapers and officials said he was crazy, that he Is a vile and malicious person trying to undermine the railroad But these two gentlemen have spoken and 1t yet remains for the New Haven to prove their statements false. We, too, repeat the words of the gentlemen with emphasis, "The shopnnen's strike handled more stupid1y and expensively in New England than, on the average, through the rest of the country"
 For it must be noted as goes the New Haven i'll this strike so will the remain ing New England roads go as the New Haven directly or indirectly controls all of the remaining New England rail roads whose shopmen are still on strike
 At the beginning of this strike the New Haven soon earned for itself the reputation of being one of the/ "die of railroads dominated by the minority of the Railway Executives Association who refused at all times to give fair l consideration to the reports submitted 1 to them, among them the so-cal1ed Gray | report, or to consider the wishes of the | ma jority who favored establishment of | National Boards of Adjustment as sug- gested in the hearings before the U. S 1 Railroad Labor Board. At the head of | the Railway Executives Association and | as spokesman for the minority was man noted for his hatred toward all | labor, organized or unorganized, he re- presented that vast group of banking in terests in New York whose chief busi- ness Is rairoading and who as a direc- tor. of the New Haven managed this railroads business and particularly it's labor policies without even consulting the home officials or troubling to ascer- tain the harm his arrogant attitude would