Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-06
DANIEL SON AND PUTNAM NEWS
PUTNAM

Other Unions Backing Up TroIlsynsnl
 Strikehrsakars Get Chilly Reeeption-
 On All Sides -SeIertmen of Six
 Toana Fail kc Forward Jury Lists--
 North orosvenordaIe Merchant Pays
 s2o and Fine For Keeping Broken
 Scale.
 The uhanimity with which othhr unions represented in this city were standing behind the striking trolley men was the outstanding feature of tho strike situation in this city Mon day. > Members of the various unions were prompt to withdraw their trade from persons who were doing busi- ness with the strikebreakers or any of the new men brought here by the trolley company. On one pretext or another, 1t was reported all over the city, business houses in number turn ed down chances to do business with ! the new men brought onto this divi- sion of the trolley company. Members of some local unions are very outspok- en on the matter. In some cases bus- mess men who did not care to risk l loss of trade by doing business with | the new men are said to have turned down orders to furnish them goods. So far as could be learned there was no concerted action upon the part of other unions to help the union
 
 unions were exercising their right to I buy where they saw ht-and they | weren't buying where the men now in charge of the trolley line as operatives were customers.
 Inn and Restaurant keepers Unsus-
 pieious.
 New men brought here from New l York Sunday night were taken down to the car house at Dayville. Monday morning and their night quarters are now at the Alexander house at Wild l wood park where cot beds have beer installed and things made comfortable for those who are to live there. These men Ioomed at the Putnam inn Sun. day night. but 1t was stated at the 1 ho1Srl Monday morning that it was no known Sunday night when two meI booked the rooms that they were fol men who were to take the places O the striking trolleymen. The hote q not infrequently at this season of tn l year gets groups of men from circu advertising cars so no suspicion wa aroused when the rooms were aslsei had a perfect right to lodge and fee, the men, there seemed to be senti ment about the place Monday that 1 would be fully as profitable to tn 1, house not to have the new business. Charles Maheu. proprietor of a res 
 keenlv on Monday the fact that h was being criticised for having fur nished a meal to the strikebreaker } upon their arrival here Sunday even : ing. when a crowd gathered outsid ? his place while the men were eating Mr. Maheu said that he had receive an order for a certain number of sup : pers and he had prepared them with out asking any questions.
 The buyers for the men who hay ! i'come here to operate the cars and t guard them had no trouble. howeve g in getting all the goods they needed g after looking until they found th right places.
 z Merchants Want Strike Settled.
 Business men who were reported
 be "1ucking" the new chance fe
 trade did not do so because they wis
 so much to fight the trolleymen's bal
 tie as to save themselves from loss
 trade that they have had for year : and hope to have after the chance fc the new trade has vanished into thi
 air. As a matter of fact. the bushes ,, men are not saying much on eiths T side about the strike situation, excepi :. ing to inquire and wonder how Tor