Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-04
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Present Day Service.

MT. EdltOr: The strike Of the en | plcyers of the Shore Line Electric Railway is still on and no one real i izes that fact more than do the off ciaIs of that company. The policy of the company is certainly very anti l qltated and they are proving it so by l tlcir acton. If they needed any fur ther p-,cC1 that the public is not with l tl:em they could consult their rec | ords as to the returns of the various car. in operation yesterday and the returns cashed in last year Old tim CTS state that in years gone by there We're as many 15 or IS cars used in transporting the public to the fair but what a spectacle yesterday when tEe company operated only three and Of that three the first would have but a seated load the second about three fourths full and the third car carryin S but very few.
 chase around the system looking af- ter these men such he has been required to do ever since the cars have started to operate. We know practical official of the outfit would gladly settle this question if he could lst in accordance with his best judg- ment. Although Mir. Perkins states that it made him weep to see some of lis employees doing hard labor ra ther than to willingly submit to his aut oeratic will. let him weep tears of repentance for having placed himself before this community as Superman as far as operating a street railway system is concerned. Wherever did he get his experience in the first place? We wonder as does everyone else. Does he consider himself great CT than the present day managers employees for years and years and thereby show good judgment because they realize that harmonious relations must exist between employers and employe in order to promote the greatest efficiency. We have seen va rious letters in the papers that were prompted no doubt in some cases be- cause of the writer knowing that he had been inconvenienced quite seri- ously because of the nature of the ser vice now provided by the company. No doubt others were written at the behest of the officials of the company after a talk with them and there was enc prompted by a bigoted mind no the Norwich merchant. Tn that letter the writer showed that his mind was so warped and stultiied that he did not know that the world war was over and that most men of intelligence had all bigotry and racial feeling scared from their hearts and minds.
 Does the public know that R. W Perkins of the Shore Line Electric
 the Boston Electric Railway Com
 pany. and E. c. Foster of the Man chester, N. H.. Co.,. were appointed a committee of three from the New En- gland Street Railway Association to bring before legislatures of the va rious states a programme Of reme- dial legislation for the street railway companies?
 Does the public know that Massa : cfusetts pressed some legislation that tended to relieve certain companies partly in the manner they desired?
 Does the public know that the Con- necticut legislature failed to pass any legislation to that effect and that MT. cate both legislature and the people that remedial legisla ton in favor of the street railway companies must be granted to them and that the people must pay higher fares if they want convenient service? All the latter day education to the dear public by Mir Perkins in this county is where the
 first free text books of this country were placed in the schools through the efforts of a workingman. a carpenter by trade.
 Does the public realize that Thomas s
 Mitten of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. who was spoken of in the press of little more than a week ago as the successor to MT Shonts of the
 New York Railways states that what we want is more riders at five cents rather than an increased fare %'
 
 Cleveland Street Railway Co. in creased the wages of their employees 25 per cent. which brought these ern- ployes up to so cents per hour after one years service and the company
 reduced the fare system eight per
 cent. at the same time and ride in Cleveland is only three cents with an extra charge for a transfer and 1t is considered the most efficient railway in this country?
 Did the public read the Boston American of Sunday last showing the financial operations of the Worcester Street Railway Co. the Old Boston and Northern and the Old Colony, both of these known later as the Bay State and at the present time known as the Massa ctusetts Elecric Railway Co.,?
 Does the public know that the off cials of the Shore Line Electric Rail-
 way Go. are of course going to add their loss because of this strike to their already unnecessary deficit and go before the public utilities of this state and request that these losses be paid by the dear public?
 We feel that it is about time that the public should realize the destruc- tive policy of MT. Perkins and in-