New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-08-30
HOW RAIL STRIKE
WOULD AFFECT us
WHAT 1T WOULD MEAN TO NEW
ULM IF THE STRIKE WERE
ORDERED.
BIG INDUSTRIES WOULD BE CON-
PEELED TO SHUT DOWN AT
ONCE.

With the railroad strike situation
reaching a more acute stage from day
to day, it behooves the citizens of New
Ulm to consider what it will do to us if
it comes. If there were to be a strike
and it should last for whole month,
what effect would it have upon the bust
ness interests of the city and in what
would the public at large be affected?
These and similar questions came to he
editor of the Review within the past
week and to satisfy his own curiosity on
the subject he called up different people
who are at the head of New Ulm's big
enterprises to find out how these men
view the situation.
When Chas. Vogtel, manager of the
Eagle Roller Mill Co. was questioned
as to what effect a strike of months
duration would have on the mill, he
very promptly stated that the mill would
shut down at once. This would throw
nearly 200 people out of employment,
because the mill employs about that
number of men including the travelling
statesmen. AS practically all of the men
\ are on salary basis, the Company
would continue the wages of all the men
and that with the loss of profits would
damage the mill plant to the extent of
about $4,000 to 100000. The mill has
enough wheat to run 3 months and
enough coal to keep going, but without
shipping facilities to the outside it
would be useless to keep running
August Dahl, manager of the New Ulm
Roller Mill Co. has a similar story to tell.
1--WE might run a couple of days and
store the output, but there would be no
sense in trying to run longer than that.
The chances are that we would shut
down at once" The New Ulm Roller
Mill Co. also has enuf wheat and coal
on hand to keep running some time,
but under the circumstances it would
be CT no use. The damage that the
New Ulm Roller Mill Co. would sustain
is estimated by the manager to be be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 if the strike
should last month. There is no danger
of flour famine here, altho the feed on
hand would hardly be sufficient to last
the month out.
August Stork of Stork Bros. said
with no chance to ship out and withsno
chance to ship in you can readily see
how long we would be able to continue
business on the scale we are doing it at
the present time. Unless there were
some chance to ship foodstuffs by ex-
press or thru trains we could do nothing
else but buy from farmers locally and
store in our refrigerator what cannot
be consumed locally"
When Charles Stuebe, Jr. of Stuebe
Bros. was called up, he was under the
impression for minute that the strike
was on and that we had inside infor-
nation to that effect and he breathed a
sigh of relief when told that we were
simply looking for information as to
what our townsmen thought was going
to happen if the strike should become
a reality. eve would simply quit
buying" said he Except eggs locally
which could be placed in cold storage.
AS far as poultry and livestock is con-
cerned, the farmers would have to keep
it, except such as is needed for local con-
SUMPTION"
Harry Bingham of Bingham Bros.
says that in case of a strike their entire
elevators would shut down at once, be-
cause there would be no sense in buying
grain when there is no chance to market
it. The coal on hand would not be
sufficient to carry the town thru, but if
the strike did not last longer than a
month and people would not get excited
there would be absolutely no trouble in
keeping everybody supplied with coal
even if the quantity of coal shipped by
water and stored on the Duluth docks
is not so great as it was last year at this
time.
If strike should be declared now, the
Aufderheide Tile & Cement Works and
Brick Yard would be able to continue
the brick plant indefinitely a.most, altho
it would be impossible to make shipments.
Their stuff would keep. With the cement
tile works proposition, the case is al
together different. At the outside, their
supply of cement would last only two
weeks and possibly before that they
would be forced to shut down. The
damage suffered by them would be
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