Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-06
SCARCITY
TOLABOR TROUBLE
Claim Strike of Longshoremen
Has Held Up Raw
Material.
DENY BOARDING ACCUSATION
Jobbers Meet With Colonel G.
r. Kelley to Discuss
Situation.
DENY BOARDING ACCUSATION

That the period of sugar shortage
in Richmond and the State generally
is rapidly coming to a close and will
soon be little more than an unpleas-
ant memory. was the opinion expressed
yesterday by jobbers, Wholesale gro
GERS and agents for sugar refineries
to the number or fourteen, at a meet
ing called by Colonel c. r. Kelley,
secretary of the Virginia Council OF
Defense and price-fixing commissioner
for the State. The men by whom all
Of the sugar consigned 10 Richmond
their opinion the ending OF the long
shoremen's strike, during which raw
could not Be removed for refining, and
the operation of the refineres. now at
TOP 9 Meet the heavy
tobbers was emphaticallY made dur
ing the course of the meeting. held in
clerk Of the Senate in the Slate Cap
itol The situation was summed up
by E. A. Saunders. head of one of the
the State. who declared that jobbers
GOULD not have been guilty Of boarding
II such had been their desire, because
of sugar. Since the margin of profit
on sugar for wholesalers was fixed, it
move their sugar as rapidly as posi-
BILE. Mr. Saunders pointed out. AS a
pure nusiress propos.tion. boarding
ion.
Wine Asks Pointed Questions.
Fire was infused into the meeting
by the presence of Commo onwcalth's s
the wholesalers a number of questions
ABOUT assH j., the ,s, handling of sugar here and
heln asked a 5qs Msa the he
aas sSs SSs ps ps.hs Rr0hSses tSs meetise s
Mr.. Wise stated that candy by the ton
wac available here and soft drinks
without number could be purchased,
able to procure It. It was then that
one on. Of the jobbers Suggested that Mr.
uation than those. assembled. x gen
GI, eral needing ;%s,Ig Of heads after this re-
shared by the other jobbers.
moes unesd sfnt. shat sugar shipments to hich-
heavy. probably about twenty-five car
loads having arrived. This informa-
non he ne freirSs haG secured from .arcad
those to whom consigned. he fs DECLARED. d.
sugar refinerics present showed, how
ever, that no more than forty seven
GSa,rloads of sugar had been received in
that he had been able TO get no sugar
since September %.
Much Sugar In Received.
More sugar has been received here
IN IN Ihe past week than in any month
previously. declared Mr.. Saunders. All
or this could not be kept in Richmond
out OF fairness to. the trade through
out the State and in North Carolina
and South Carolina. which depends on
aistrioution from Richmond, he said.
AZ the present time about SO per cent
Oh the total shipment was being re-
Iained and sold here. according to the
present yesterday
II don't think single jobber in
Rlchmond has been guilty Of hoard
Ing. inG. concluded Mr.. Saunders. "Do
you' Ar: Wiser" he continued. point
ing to the Commonwealth's Attorney.
beiieve that any wholesale dealer in
ms CITY mas hoarded or profiteered in
sugar! Dir. Wise refused to give his
1Psni0n. fbe %as,,n1 The evidence given during
mors OF ,profteering and point the
ddnger dnGsio OF blame. at the strike. which
sugar from Cuba