The Connecticut labor news., 1923-03-23
Company ''Unions" Are
 A Delusion And Snare
R. R. OFFICERS
 COMPLAIN ABOUT
 FREIGHT SERVICE

That the shoe is beginning to pinch the foot of even the ardent support CTS of the "hard-boiled" railroads Is clearly proven by the following cor respondence between the Bangor & Aroostook and New Haven railroads. It IS long road that has no turns and the pitcher that goes too often to the well IS pretty sure to be broken.
 1t would seem as though the time was approaching when excuses for poor service would no longer be tol- erated
 The correspondence follows:
 Copy of letter issued by President Percy R. Todd, Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company:
 Copy No. I-Shortage of cars:
 "The officers of this company have done Everything in their power to get a greater supply of cars into Aroos- took County. We have sent innum- erable letters and telegrd4ns to the roads west of us and have twice sent MT. Daggett to Portland, Boston. New York, New Haven and else where to see what can be done, but with little result.
 "The congestion of the New Haven and the Boston and Maine has reach ed the point that may be fairly de- scribed as hopeless so much so that while the Maine Central have loaned five freight engines to the Boston and Maine to enable them to move more freight from Portalnd west, the Maine Central still had yesterday an accu- mutation of 1000 loaded cars at Portland which the Boston and Maine was unable to take away and as a re- suit the Maine Central has not taken anything from us for 48 hours and our freight for them Is backed up to South Lagrange, A
 eff the roads west of us cannot move loaded cars they of course can not move empties, and, as an illustra tion of this situation, 1 enclose copy of the letter received from President Pearson of the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford R. R., saying that I5o Eastman Heater cars have been and still are held empty at Harlem River on account of their inability to furnish power to move them.
 'Yours truly,
 (Signed) PERCY R. TODD,
 "President"
 Copy No. 2-Letter from President Pearson of the New Haven, to Pre6i- dent Todd of the Bangor and Aroos- took R. R. Co.,:
 "The New York, New Haven and
 Hartford Railroad Company
 New Haven, Conn, Feb. IS, 1923. "Mr. P. R. Todd, President Bangor
 and Aroostook R. R. C., <
 Boston, Maine.
 Dear Sir:
 Replying to yours of the 10th with reference to shortage of cars for po tato loading in your territory, aside from a number of these Heater cars being held in Harlem River Yard, there Is no undue detention to this class of equipment i'll our hands. Un- der load the cars are moving with reasonable dispatch and the empty movement, while perhaps somewhat sluggish in some sections, is not un- duly slow At Harlem River, due to the pressing necessity of preferring and anthracite coal, about I5o of these cars have accumulated These cars have been classified into two straight trains for movement to the Boston and Maine at Worcester and will go forward just as quickly as power IS available to move them, which it is expected, will be in day or two. The importance of minimiz- ing delay to this class of equipment is fully appreciated and the accumula- tiot at Harlem River would not have been allowed could it have been avoided, but the constant and heavy run of the three essential commodities above mentioned has been such as to heavily tax our capacity. The mat ter will have continued attention.
 'I ours truly, (Signed) "E. J. PEARSON
 President"