Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-17
TROLLEY SERVICE COMPL LETELY STOPPED

can do to eke out a miserable exist | ence at it's. best
 MT. Perkins IS also quoted as say l ing that he invited both sides to pre-
 sent their case to the public. We want
 10 call to Mfr. Perkins attention that this is not aoriginal-with him, that on July ? 19f9s our international vice
 president, Mir. o Brien, outlined a pol | icy by which the entire public could De. represented and swe believe at that conference that such a policy would be carried. because MT. Perkins. Mir. I Stratton and MT. Cain all agreed that l that would bring about the desired ef feet that we know they want. As to l the employees leaving a-Al seeking oth- CT positions. when that condition pre- sented itself during the period of the 1 world War because of the wretchedly | low wage this company was paying,
 three cents an hour and then couldn't ! get the help or hold those that they i had.
 As to the Danbury situation, this 1 road has been in the hands of re- 1 ceiver for over 8 year, it has five cent fare on it's city lines ana seven cent fare on it's iilterurban lines. Dur. ing the last thirteen months it went ] behind over sixty-two thousand dol I lars in it's operating expenses and yet , the court rather than see the public ] inconvenienced by a suspension of work ordered the. receiver to arbitrate | the Shore Line officials done to pre- vent the inconvenience to the public !? They also quote the earnings of one platform man as being 52.16 for one weeks work. Divide that by the high est rate paid per hour which is Az 1-2 cents and the answer is that the man worked one hundred and twenty nine hours: Based upon a ten hour day that man worked twelve days and nine 1 hours in one week. The Shore Line company ought to be proud to give out any such statistics in this enlightened age when the workers. of the world outside of the street car men are working eight hours for days work and receiving from thirty to fifty dol l lars week. He says that a very large percentage of the men have the same 1 opportunity of putting in thirteen days | in seven, We want to say that is a | false impression. As a matter of fact we know of spare men. in the winter | time, especially, who have had to live | on six or seven hours a day at thir- l ty-hve cents per hour. We are the low l est paid men in New England and l these facts we stand ready to prove in a debate upon the public platform 1 at any time.
 (Signed) THE COMMITTEE. l City Travel Light.
 A pouring rain almost all day cut 1 down travel in the city to the mini
 mum so that jitney men and proprie- | tors of the auto bus service did not
 reap the benefit of the trolley strike
 that they expected as the patronage l of this mode of travel was not very
 much larger than when the trolleys I were in operation. This was due
 largs-~to to the fact that practically all of the manufacturing plants in the Suouroan districts sent auto trucks 1 for their help and that the weather | was bad.
 The prices on the busses were kept
 at the same rates of S5 cents to New
 London but the owners of touring
 cars used as public service charged
 varying prices from 50 cents up to g 1 for the. trip. One woman was
 charged s for transportation as far
 as the state hospital. People may be forced to pay exorbitant prices for transportation now but they will ! surely remember those jitney men who profiteered when the strike Is 1 over. rs4 . .<-s=r t. ...t . Try for Sunday Trains. Anticipating the continuance of the
 strike. through the rest of the week | the large loss that would accrue to Norwich. merchants if the people from 1 the surrounding territory could not get here as usual that day. the cham if some. special train service could not be arranged for that day.
 1 To accommodate those along the
 line of the Central Vermont road. the l l ing to see if an extra train cannot be run from Willimantic to New Lop-
 don, leaving Willimantic at 12.30 p.
 m. Northbounds they are asking for
 an extra to leave New London al S.30
 or o'clock ?. m. so as to accommo- i date the home going crowd.
 On the New Haven road they will
 seek to have the northbound train
 Putnam and return and the same thing also with the train about O. clock from New London.
 Handling the Mails.
 1 Postmaster John P. Murphy was at
 work Wednesday to see that there
 was no interruption in the mail ser
 vice to Taftville and Greenevil1e post
 larly sent from the Norwich office by | trolley, four or five trips day. Post
 master Murphy of Taftville was able
 to arrange, Wednesday that some of
 took the mail bags. and the Norwich
 postma ster was in communica ton | with Washington to get authority to
 handle the situation that has arisen. City letter carriers with routes on
 the outskirts, who have been accus- toned to ride the trolley cars to l the beginning of their routes had ] longer walks added to their regular
 routine Wednesda-s for they had to
 walk all the way instead of ride, un- l less they found some friendly machine
 to give them lift,
 Railroad Gets Travel.
 ] At the New Haven railroad station
 it was reported Wednesday afternoon that they could see a. great increase 1 in travel, north and south. because of
 the trolley. strike
 OBITUARY
 Lyman B. Brand.
 T,yrn,n Rrairar ard Brand AR vesrs If