The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-02
THE TROLLEY PROBLEM

TT HE TROLLEY problem peculiar to Bridgeport The whole it. in Bridgeport, it crisis will be presented Bridgeport therefore, will have the problem presented to it in pressing and immediate
 If the trolley suspend service strike for this proposed people Bridgeport who will be noonveneneed is this city that the strike is te begin
 What should the city do?
 be taken granted city will follow Its self interest if what that And what is the self in terest of the city?
 factories de work in factories Broadly speaking and workers est is common It not immediately common disputes but against outside factors s
 It fso the utmost importance that workers should be sat otheY things speedy convenient and cheap transportation to 1 and from their homes.
 if the workers now used to jtneys spend time coming from work if 1t costs them more to make the journey will surely demand the employer payment for the inconvenience and the extra cost.
 In other employers and workers striving together produce fund goods from which must be derived all of the things that they all in separately enjoy minated merely to reestablsh failing monopoly Industrial Bridgeport later must the bi Probably
 Does industry want to finance the trolley against its own its workers? We think not
 Moreover the asserted for the proposed troll immoral in two It is economically inn moral It is ethically immoral
 tney certain purposes superior form of trans port faster frequent time and it is cheaper
 The trolley everywhere unable to meet the new con- ditions.
 In Connecticut trolley not try, in any economic sense, 0 meet the competition.
 proposal legslate the jneys out of existence for the benefit of the trolley economically unsound proposal made long to legslate steam engines water wheels and foot could not compete with them.
 The ethical involved the equation is strikngy apparent Men who doing losing business want to des humber who getting along is as if one whose profits had been decreased by growth small sore selling better goods cheaper the pubic unless the little fellows legislated out of existence.
 The right individual to take his vehicle upon the highways carry neghbor for hire among the old rights civilized It is this right which the trolley monopoly proposes to attack
 An committed by power upon established right well known all cannot be committed without seriously tarring fabric. It is whispered plain men industrial life supersedng this thought grow many serious evils which American car think about without anxiety.
 with the industrial leadership of Bridgeport nip the impending trolley strike in the bud If the strike takes place carry of the franchise and rights which the monopoly enjoys.
 leadership of Bridgeport will quietly to Mr. Branard least the mouhpece of the strike if the trolley monopoly attempts to abandon it's Bridgeport it will be held to full responsibility to an action forf forfeiture, there will be strike
 giving better equal service the trolley monopoly meet competition. The in which the be rendered forth detail by authorized mission city The recommendations simple. One and frequent service and five cent fares