Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-08
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cooperate with the manufacturers to aid 1 in supplying work Mr. Fullerton appoint ed John E. Brick, Herbert Pollard and | John F. Carr. Headquarters will be at the chamber rooms end any person know l ing of a vacant position, or of place l where part time work can be done, is | asked to notify these men. The work done by this committee is not by any means charity but offers chance for | those who neee aA ark to earn money to keep themselves supplied until the mills | go back on full time.
 Arthur Kelley Albert Piche and Ray mond Parker were appointed a committee Ito confer with the manufacturers for sup port of the Red Cross drive, in which S5 per cent. of the money raised will be used in this city.
 J. P. Bath then introduced Attorney Thomas Hughes of Hartford, who spoke on Public Interest in Industrial Contro- versies. The public today, he said.- is very much interested in industrial contro- versies, the coal strike of 1919 and the railroad strike bringing home to the pub lie the knowledge that they suffer when strikes affect these industries and others Unions claim that they collectively have l the right to strike, basing their statement on the law of personal liberty The situa- | tion, however, Is not that today. When one man leaves his, work there is little change; but when a large group stops work that business ceases 10 function and the public bears the brtmt. Laws have been passed in this country to prevent masses of money from forming a monopo- ly to create high prices, and & capital is prevented from using the monopoly plan why should labor be allowed to use this same combination of forces to gain it's lends? This IS the question legislative bodies throughout the country are facing today, and is problem that must be solved, because the public, which repre- lsents the greater part of the personnel of thls country demands that it's rights shall not be ignored
 Mrs. Minnie Rouillard was charged with theft of seventy dollars from neighbor, Mrs. Eugeria Russ, at the DO lice court Tuesday morning. Shs enter ed plea of not guilty. Eviden te point ed to the guilt of Mrs. RouiIlard and Judge Frank H. Foss bound her over to the next term of the Superior court un- der bonds of 800
 The women reside on the back road to Windham and Mrs. Russ claimed that the accused was at her home last Friday They saw man proving around the house and went to the window to investi- gate. In the meantime Mrs. Russ placed the money, a fifty dollar bill and a twen- ty, in the drawer of the buffet locked the drawer and put the key in sugar bowl covering it with sugar. Later they went out for walk with the: children. She asked Mrs. Rouillard. to return to the house and put some potatoes on the stove and the latter did so. the time intervening being about five minutes Mrs. Russ then returned to the house and saw Mrs. Rouillard coming out of the dining room Later in the day, when MT. Russ returned home the loss of the money was noted. the key being in the lock of the drawer.
 Lieutenant Allan McArthur investigat- ed the matter, but Mrs. Rouiliard denied knowisg anything about the loss of the money. The next day Mrs. Russ con fronted Mrs. Rouillard with the facts and the latter is alleged to have broken down and cried. She admitted the theft and produced coat and returned the money which was pinned to the lining of a sleeve. Mrs. Russ then went to the home of neighbor and notified the po- lice of the recovery of the money In police court Tuesday morning Mrs Rouil- | lard stuck to her story of innocence de- nying every having the money of re- turning it to Mrs. Russ. The coat was Eproduced as evidence and pin holes were l found in the sleeve as stated.
 Mrs. Clara Mott Tinke1 died Tues day morning at St. Joseph's hospital. where she had been taken for treatment l for diabetes. She was born in Oxford. Mass, June 10, 1882 Surviving her is her husband, Charles L. Tinker, broth eri Fred Mott of this city, and a sister. Mrs. Elizabeth Batting of Jacksonville. Fla. She was active in the work of the Womans Relief Corps and was also af- fliated with Order of the Golden Cross !
 Nearly $500 employees of local textile mills are either out of work or working on an average of two days per week
 owing to slackened business. The textile i. business in this city has never seen condi- ! tions as bad, even during the 1S93-6 bus mess slump, the working hours at that time average about 30 per week. About ! three months ago things in the textile line 7 in this city were booming and good wages were being paid the operators but today when business is bad most of the people
 are in strengthened circumstances noi having money saved from the good times
 not So fra back The American Thread company, which employs nearly 270O op
 eratives is now on one-day-a-weel
 schedule of 3-4 hours excepting in com
 paratively few departments and the out
 look is not bright for a change in condi
 tions before the beginnng of the New | Year.
 The ouidniclx- Windham plants 450 op
 eratives until short time ago was work
 ing full time, but with poor business con
 dtions this week the working scale ha
 been cut to three days, making the tofa r 26 IA hours. The plant has been closes