Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-10
Candy Plants Hit
by Sugar Strike

Continued from rage one
a strike also prevented the sending Of any
large quantities to this city.
LITTLE FROM NEW YORK
An official of the Quaker City Chocolate
and Confectionery Company, 21i0 German
town avenue. said:
We are now dependent upon the little
sugar we receive from New York. The
railroad facilities are SO poor and the
refners over there are so overcrowded
with orders from all sections of the
country that we have little hope of get
ting any great quantities from New
York.
we are entirely out of certain grades
of sugar and have had to use sub
> stitutes or abandon manufacture of
candy where those grades are needed.
Under normal conditions we use daily
100 barrels of sugar, so, you see, we
are pretty hard hit
A representative Of Brandle & Smith Co,
manufacturing confectioners, Elghth ana
Dauphn streets, said:
we were all looking for lower prices
and held off getting In q stock Of sugar
THAT is why this famine hits us so
hard We had none stored ahead. IL
we had to depend upon Philadelphia
for our supply we would have to shut
down. We are getting some grades
from New York, and what grades we
cannot get we substitute with others.
"lf we had 100000 barrels Of sugar at
,bis time" said a representative of the
Crocers Supply Company, Lafayette Build
tng 1--WE could sell every barrel at S.
sugar is growing scarcer and scarcer, and
',n,,ld not be surprised to see the retail
nrice up to twenty cents within week
"Today we had at least five hundred
t.,ephone calls from merchants and all
80 clamoring for sugar. In Wilkes
-. Hazleton, and other towns upstate,
- situation Is even more acute than in
n,ua adelphia II the famine continues the
i,.,niesale price will go to S12 in fow
Savs At the present time there are not
s9o barrels of sugar in the CITY,"
,enresentative of J. II. Huston & Co.,
sugar brokers' III the oiu o'oeN i1N'i'ahse
Building, said:
",rhe sugar market is In a very bad con-
d,tion About all we are doing is supplying
our regular costumers
HOTELS SUFFER
leading hotels in the city today began
to he seriously embarrassed by the famine,
rha steward of the Belevue-StraHord sald
that tho shortage was hampering the Gull
nary department. He gave orders 10 chets
TO conserve the supply in every way
platt. manager Of Showell, Fryer & Co.,
said today
I'VE are supplying our regular customers
hut only in greatly reduced quantities, our
nrice is eight cents a pound, virtually the
same as usual in spite OF the iact 'ha,
smaller stores are demanding Twelve ana
thirteen cents, ,,
one Of the companies crippled by the strike
nIaced the case of the refiners before the
public today in the following statement
ON the afternoon OF Wednesday,
January 81, a part or the employees
of this company voluntarily ieit their
work. and portion or them are now
on strike This fact necessarily im-
naired temporarily the deliveries or
redned sugars TO the local trade but
deliveries have now substantially as
sumed normal proportions. and there
is an ample supply OF rehned sugars 10
take care OF our business
This action on the part OF our EN-
nIoves came after the following steps
had been taken by this company:
First An increase in the pay OF gem
eral labor from eighteen cents per hour
TO twenty-five cents per hour during
the year 1916
sacond The announcement by the
company that during the coming year
the nav of all employees on the rennery
nayroli would be increased eight per
cent and ten per cent. payable In spaced
neriods, making total increase within
the year OF about fifty per cent on the
hourly wages in force on January l.
1916.
~ liberal pensions for the beneht OF
employees who have long been In the
service OF the company
Fourth. The payment Of substantial
@,.s Sss-scxy rsrsras The denands of