The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-15
tuscaloosa Will
SEND DELEGATION
ON WARRIOR ISSUE
Acts Quickly Upon Receipt Of
Official Notice OF Clos
ing Port

Tuscaloosa is to attend the meet
ings of the Birmingham Traffic as
ISOLATION and Chamber of Commerce
called for tomorrow and Thursday to
consider direct action in order to Sc
cure divisional rates on the Warrior
and otherwise advance the interests
of the Warrior. Tuscaloosa 5 War
rior barge line agent received notice
yesterday from the federal manage
ment that his services would not be
required after May FL This was lor-
of Tuscaloosa
Yesterday morning, following no.
tice of closing of that port, the Tus-
caloosa Chamber of Commerce tele-
phoned o. l.. Bum. manager of the
Birmingham chamber and traffic as
ISOLATION. asking permission to at
tend the meetings of their directors
called to consider the Warrior matter.
Mr.. Bum invited Tuscaloosa to send
a delegation.
The traffic association will have it's
directors meet tomorrow morning
and he directors of the chamber will
meet Thursday afternoon The War
rior situation and direct action to
protect Birmingham and the other
ports of the Warrior will be fully
discussed and program outlined.
Il have never felt easy about the
indirect action (which we have been
getting with regard to the Warrior"
said Charles Z. Jones, secretary of the
traffic association. "Under that kind
CT a situation 1t has always seemed
to me that Birmingham could not
place its finger on It's own interests.
Discrimination.
This was forcibly shown in the
recent publication of barge line rates
via the Mississippi and New Orleans
to Texas points on iron and steel
products from st. Louis. We asked
for rates on the same base from Bir-
mingham to Texas points through
New Orleans. We were asked to
step aside for the time being, and
the result is that Birmingham and
the Warrior are Disseminated against
in favor of the Mississippi end of
the barge line.
I'VE have kept out of direct action
because we were told we might con-
fuse matters. Now it is a matter of
self protection that we get into the
game and stay there. At least, that
Is the way it looks to me-
Embargo On Salt.
Carload shipments of salt from New
Orleans to all points served by the
Warrior river have been enlarged
by the MississippiW Warrior federal
management. Official notice to that
effect has been received from w. NJ
Hough. general freight agent, New
Orleans.
No reason is given in the circular
notice of this embargo. but in traf-
fic circles it is believed to have been
ordered because salt has not been
remunerative item of traffic. The
salt is mined at some distance from
New Orleans and taken there IN rail-
road cars. The barge line absorbs
the switching charge at New Orleans.
Presumably sugar, coffee and rice
will not be affected, because they are
delivered into barges from ware
houses.
Has been Big Item.
Salt has been one of the Warriors
biggest northbound items and has
been shipped from Birmingham Into
Georgia and Tennessee. whether
other commodities are to be treated
as salt has been Is not known, but
traffic circles regard the ruling as
to salt as the beginning of process
of cutting out other items that nave
not proven remunerative.
Less than carload lots of salt can
be shipped as usual. because. as In
the case of coffee. rice and sugar,
such shipments would be made from
warehouse to bargeS.