The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-06
SHIPMENTS FROM SOUTH HELD UP
 BY N. H. ROAD


 the New Haven, which has refused to settle the strike of the shop crafts men, is unsettling the business of the country IS revealed in a communica- | tion sent out by the Southern Rail road to some of it's agents explaining | the reason why it has been unable to get the shipments from the Southern Railroad into territory controlled by the railroads where the strike insti- | tuted last July is still in force. The document shows that during a conference held in New York city | recently between representatives of the Southern and the New York, l New Haven & Hartford railroad, off | cials of the latter road admitted that there were at that time more than 6o,ooo cars which they were appar- ently unable to move.
 It was brought out at the same hearing that the Pennsylvania road another one of the "die hards," had more than 5000 cars which they were holding from the Southern road.
 The Southern Railroad having set tied with it's shopmen, was handling traffic as usual but found 1t necessary to explain that the reason for the de- 1 lay experienced by it's customers was 1 simply because of the inability of the | 'die hard'' roads to handle the traffic and therefore declared an embargo on shipments to the New Haven. The order referred to follows: "As information, I quote the fol- lowing telegram from MT. w. s. An l drews, dated Washington, March 10th:
 "'H-63. We have not sent out many new permits on lumber for New England points because we have about 500 similar cars, many for same des- l tinations which can not be delivered at Potomac Yards and other north ern junction points because of con- gestion in the northeast. "'We sent delegation to New Ha- ven Tuesday, representing MT. Shaw, MT. Cowhig and myself.
 "'They told our delegates they are holding 6o,ooo cars on their own rails and that the Pennsylvania road IS holding 5000 loads for themj many of them being cars covered by permits and others for non embargoed points. "'We asked them for their own sake, as we'll as ours, to stop issuing permits and accept the old loads held on our rails for several weeks or months after which we would be pre- pared to consider the new permits but they said they could not do it.
 "1 hope you, can explain to the Shippers that a permit does not move cars through congestion or through snow drifts, and that we are trying to help our patrons when we do not ac cept additional cars which will only increase the congestion.
 "'Yo our people report great short age of cars and it is surely better to utilize available cars for loading to non-embargoed territory as they will be unloaded and returned for another trip instead of being held up for weeks or months. Please work with us in trying to handle the situation for the best good of all our patrons. MB'
 "The foregoing is self-explanatory Tn the future we will not undertake to handle any traffic for embargoed points on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad even though permit has been secured and is pre- scented by the shipper unless you have had same confirmed by MT. w. s. Andrews, assistant vice-president, Washington. D. C.
 "Please see that these instructions are compiled with to the letter.
 "C. M. TYLER.
 Jacksonville, Fla"