Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-07

The Chamber of Commerce has talk en up the critical business situation that has arisen here through the freight embargo placed by the New Haven road and is trying to get Di- rector General of Railroads McAdoo to come to the help of Norwich bus mess men by making 8 raise in the scale of wages for truckers and freight handlers here.
 Business men and railroad men see that the real reason for the necessi- ty for & freight embargo lies in the wage question relating to the truck | CTS The railroad is paying s2.44 per day and is face to face with the, inn possibility of getting men to work at that rate
 It is the contention of the Norwich business men that the railroad should pay about s per day to make their | pay correspond to that given the same sort of labor in other lines. After learning of the freight en1bar- go, President r. W Cary made afi ef- fort on Thursday to see if some helr could not he secured from the state farm for inebriates at the Norwich State Hospital He got into c6rti municstion with Trustees CostalIe | Lipoitt and Dr. J T. Denohue an; al- ! SO Superintendent Wilcox, but learned ! that none of the inmates there now wsre physically in condition to do this sort of labor. There had been some husky specimens en the farm dtirine the winter, but all the most rugged were now engaged in work on the hospital farm and could not De avail l able for work here.
 | na l fine n1efchandise standing in the yart ] here whiting to be ualos ded with of1lJ 1 two truckers to do the work. This Elias been the condition for about z week so the freight has been accum. ! lulatinE each day and the er1iargt was ordered all over tfe line agains reqeivine freislit for Norwich. 1 Now the only way that Norwich car expect to have freight coming to it il through the Kay steanisliip wfiiel was induced to esta blish it's business here through the Chamber Of Com fneree.
 l The officers Of the Chamber hay, sent the following warning to Cant ]. Nevius Kay of the increase in bus
 ii1ess he may expect for the steam ship line. with the intention of havfn, him prepare for it:
 The following telegram was sent: 1 Norwich, Conn, June6, 1918. lCsptain J. Nevius Kay.
 Pres. Hart Fransportation G., A Whitehall Street.
 I New York City.
 New Haven railroad has place1 en bargo On all inward and outwarI fin ffeight at Norwich because of inabili ty to procure truckers at t3resen
 wages being paid. Are you prepare to care for extra Norwich New Yor
 business sure to be offered your lint
 NORWICH CHAMBER | OF COMMERCE.
 In an appeal to the highest author ity to rescue Norwich from the hand icap, the following telegram was sen to Director General MGAdoo on Thurs
 day:
 I Norwich, Conn. June 6. 1918. Hon. ". q. McAdo6, Director Genera
 of Railroads, Washington, D. c. | Because wages paid truckers at ter
 nfinals On the New York, New Have
 and Hartford Railroad is much lowe
 than paid by factories and contractor for day labor, Norwich, in comfno with other cities. has been forced t embargo all outward and inward fin tfreight: lhdbllltX to procure help 2 ,,5 present wage rate offered is procin disastrous to industrial and comnel ctal business interests and den1oraliz ing to railroad transportation Eft :. per cent. of our factories are engage in war work
 sl Norwich Chamber of Commerce. T H. F. Branche, Secretary. Il Had President Edward P. Jones the state chamber of commerce nt . been so dilatory about noticing a ler q ter sent him on May 16 from the loe 2 chamber of commerce, the present lt !; cal freight embargo might have bee s avoided. The local chamber saw i, that time the probability of just th ', scarcity of labor and wrote him urt
 ing him to take this up with the sta
 teeuneil Of defense.
 The following was the way Il . matter was presented to him:
 May 16, 1s1s
 MT Edward P. Jones, President Con 5. nectfcut Chamber of Cen1merc ' Winsted, Connecticut.