Evening journal., 1916-09-16
UNION BREWERY MEN
IN ANTI-RUM FIGHT.
Wilmington Workers Will
Join in Battle to Defeat
Pennsgrovc Applications
POWDER TOWN
MAKES BIG GAINS

PENNSGROVE. N. j., Sept. 16.-An
unusual and unexpected ally will join
the no-license exponents Of this bor-
ough when they go into Salem county
court at its coming session to protest
against the granting Of liquor licenses
within the borough, for a delegation
of union brewery workers OF Will
mington, Del, will oppose the grant
ing of liquor license to the Colonial
Hotel, which has just been completed
in Main street and in the heart OF the
residence section of the new Penns-
grove. thus lending an incongruous
aspect 20 the fray.
The union brewery workers have
been on strike for more than year
to win recognition from the master
brewers Of the Delaware metropolis.
Central Labor Union of Wilmington
recently decided to fight brewery
owned and brewery-contrOlled sa-
looms and hotels.
The campaign Of the striking brew
cry workers included plan to have
Wilmington hotels and saloons sell
union made beer, but in view OF the
fact that the Wilmington brewers and
wholesale whisky dealers are said to
own or control many Of the drinking
places there, the plan was not COM
plete success.
The central labor body of Whining
ton. in view of the existing conditions,
will cause to be submitted to the COM
ing session Of the Delaware Legis-
lature a bill which. If enacted into
law, would bar a brewer or whole
sale whisky dealer from owning or
controlling a hotel or saloon.
Two Requests to he Filed.
The Colonial Hotel, whose lessee,
Harry II. Green, will file application
for a liquor license in the Salem
county court at the beginning Of the
coming term, next Tuesday, was
built by Joseph II. Schunder, of VIII
mington.
W. w. Hogan. formerly Of Salem,
who has a boarding house on Beach
avenue. also will make application
for liquor license, and it is expected
that both applications will be filed on
the opening day of court. The "drys
will have a specified time in which TO
file remonstrances, after which Judge
Waddington will hear testimony
Pennsgrove has been dry" for about
one year. for last fall Judge Wad-
dington revoked the license OF
French's Hotel. the only licensed place
in Pennsgrove. after a remonstrance
had been filed alleging violation of the
liouor laws The story already has
been told OF how the cessation OF the
rum trafic brought about a regenera-
tion OF the famous powder town." OF
how good order supplanted a siege OF
crime and disorder, due TO an army oi
$4,000 munition workers camped lusi
outsNie the borough's gates: OF how 2
dry" Pennsgrove increased the efii-
cheney OF these munition workers from
75 10 100 per cent, and doubled th'
noney-order business OF the Penns'
grove postoffice.
Company Official "Drys Leader.
The "drys" will be represented by 5
Russling Leap and ]. Foreman Sin
nickson, former county prosecutor o.
Salem.
General Superintendent F. A. Gen
tieu of the Carney Point war plant
OF the dupont Powder Company, wh'
is a resident of Pennsgrove, is one O
the "dry" leaders, and will he in "a po
sition to testify both as to improved
conditions in the borough since !
went dry" and to the increased ef
aciency of the company's employees.
The dupont Company maintains
two Y. NJ. c. AS at its plant here, on'
for foreigners and one for Americans
and the membership records OF th'
latter tell a mute but impressive
story OF how dry" Pennsgrove ha'
benefited hundreds of young muni
tions workers. The membership las
November was 40s and $50 in Decem
ber, jumping to 1,04S in January o
this year, after Pennsgrove's bar ha'
been closed, and continuing to in
crease until the high-water mark o
2O39 was reached in April OF this year