The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-19 00:00:00

The Engine-Drivers' Strite.

It is stated by the railway officials at Leeds that
nearly all the usual goods traffic is now attended to,
and that many trains which a few days ago were
either entirely interrupted or very uncertain are now
despat died and returned with pretty fair punctuality.
Stoppages at intermediate stations are no longer so
much disregarded, and on the whole the towns and
villages are well attended to. Of course, a large
(-paucity of goods has accumllated at the various
termini and iu the roadside sheds, but iu order to
make a considerable clearance of these arrears extra
heavy trains will be put on to-day.
As every accident, however slight, has now at-
tached to it unusual importance, it is as well to state
that a collision of two goods trains which took place
at Arthington, midway between Leeds and Harro-
gate, yesterday morning, was more the result of
damp weather than of incapacity in the engine-
drivers. Owing to the slippery state of the line, the
driver of a train from Stockton could not obey the
signals, and came into collision with a few laden
waggons which had just arrived from Darlington.
The railway company
have announced that the
usual excursions will take place on Easter Monday
and Tuesday to Scarborough, hull, &c. There are
reasons for believing, however, that the North
Eastern officials do not find that good and reliable
engine-drivers are so very abundant as now and
then has been represented. Such men as they womad,
even in the present emergency, trust upon one of
their locomotives are by no means to be had at a
moment's notice. It is only skilled and intelligent
mechanics who are permitted to take the place of
those who have withdrawn their services. It is im-
portant that this should be known, as next week the
holyday traffic will be considerable, and the public
may rest assured that their lives and limbs are not
to be trusted to the hands of ignorant men selected
for a great responsibility at random.

E. W. Curley, Thomas Gurtees, John Robson,
Richard Crane, Edward Wheatley, and Peter Waugh,
engine-men recently employed on the Carlisle sec-
tion of the North-Eastern Railway, were summoned
before the Newcastle magistrates on Wednesday
afternoon, charged with breaking their contract with
the above company, having left their service without
givingthe usual month's notice. Mr. Blackwell, bar-
rister, appeared for the company ; and Mr. J. P.
Roberts for the defendants. The case of Curley was
called on first. John Chater, the foreman of the loco-
motive department ou the Carlisle section, stated
that Curley had wrought for the company 17 or 18
years. He had given him a copy of the rules, and had
learnt that he was in possession of them, and it was
proved that horeceived £3 128 for a fortnight's wages.
The rules stated that an engine-driver must give a
month's notice before he can leave the service
0f the company, and in case he quitted his em-
ployment without such notice all his wages had to
be forfeited. Mr. Rollerts made a long speech for
the defence; and after consulting it was deter-
mined by the Bench to adjourn the whole of the
cases until the 17th of May.
At Stockton on Wednesday nine of the company's
workmen appeared before the magistrates charged
with leaving the service of the company on the
Stockton. and Leeds section without having given
the usual mouth's notice. Mr. Dodds appeared
for the company, and Mr. Cleminitt for the de-
fence. Septimus Dixon, Thomas Rose, and Richard
Trotter were convicted, and were sentenced to
w .14
days' imprisonment each in Durham Gh
hard labour. But upon the application C aoo,
fl
teitrh
solicitor a case was granted for
the Court l 0 f
-int of mutuality
Qieen's Bench, on the ground of
we r e liberated on
in the contract, and the
men
ince. Mr. Clem-
fi ',l!din recurity for their
men, sail 'pe'ajthita,ti.
they were very
The Bench said that they were pleased to hear
that was the feeling of the men.
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Nothing was known in Newcastle yesterday as
to the decisionehteu sseptaobeyn theg ert
traffic
afi
directorsf c
goeso f th eocno ma s :
usual, -
pany, who were stated to have held a meeting on
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butietuesd thereaY•l
is a difficulty in getting the goods
arrangements into full working order, and merchants
arc more or less inconvenienced through a want of
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yinth
district,
the delivery of their goods. In the
accunn-lation also, there is a considerable
of laden coal waggons, which the
railway
.company
' • have not as yet been able to
bring away from the collieries. Messrs. Straker
and Love, of Wellington, and some other colliery
owners, are working the coal traffic from their pits
:end coke ovens with tileir own locomotives and
I workmen,

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