The Connecticut labor news., 1924-12-06
SENATOR TONE (Continued from Page One.)

New Haven road officials, all of whom
 he was supposed to be fighting. There
 fore he couldn't vote nor oppose pass
 age of the bill. He wasn't present. But even that was taken in good grace by the railroad men. They
 thought that Joe" was boring from the inside and believed him when he
 continued to tell them all was we'll. He was or the trip as a representative
 of the state and one picked from the senate as being familiar with the
 machinery and conditions of the road
 and it was we'll to have him on such
 trips, according to the reports.
 Then along came the great upheaval whereby La Toilette and his colleagues
 were to deliver the United States from
 the wilderness into which 1t had wan dered Senator Tone was among the first to climb on that bandwagon, even
 though in the meantime he had lost his job as organizer for the nlachin- ists because that organization had de-
 cided to reduce it's staff because of
 defections in it's ranks due to the los
 ing strike which Senator Tone had
 such large part in leading in this
 section. No sooner had the La Toilette
 candidacy been announced than MT.
 Tone got himself elected as a dele
 gate to the New Haven Trades Coun- Gil from the Machinists Union in this city and offered the resolution for the
 endorsement of La Toilette, and Wheeler which, while it passed, nearly split the Council.
 Again at Hartford when the Con necticut Federation of Labor was III session and the La Toilette endorse ment came up Senator Tone, although instructed by the New Haven Council to vote and urge it's passage, refused to sign the resolution offered by Dele gate Lang of Bridgeport, but did when it came up for action, vote yes" for its passage. Meantime Senator Tone was reported as being aspiring for the nomination for Congress on the La Toilette ticket, expecting that if he got that, the democrats would also pick him and he would be advanced to Washington La Toilette himself stopped that however by insisting that no state, congressional or other nonl- inees be made but the battle fought out on his personal lines.
 Tn the meantime the strike of the railroad men had dwindled away on the New Haven system until even the men themselves acknowledged 1t was fail ure. Hundreds of the long time em- ployes of the road who had left their jobs were still out of work or working on the city streets departments, at odd jobs or anything they could get to earn a living Finally 1t came to pass where demand to call 1t off was made and vote was ordered all ver-the system and among the men wherever they could be located. Again MT. Tone become active in urging the men to stick According to the official an nouncement after the ballot was taken, they voted as urged and hundreds of them are still sticking even though facing a hard and cold winter at odd jobs and at half or less the pay than they were receiving in the railroad shops.
 Election time rolled around again and, although there was some opposi- tion to Senator Tone being renomin- ated in his district, he was renomin- ated and the district being overwhelm- ingly democratic and peopled by rail road men largely, he was the only democrat elected from New Haven. He was also one of the two democrats elected to the senate from the entire state, the other being Senator Joseph Lawlor of Waterbury. He therefore was in line for "big things" in the state councils and being supposed to be firm advocate of Labor and firm anti New Haven road man, the strikers and others about the state looked for great action from him in the incoming 
 But this week the show down came. Senator Tone, although one of those included in the injunction order ob- tained by the New Haven road during the heated days of the strike, was ap-