Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-02

George Lumpkin, Q. r. Shumate, T. T.
 Alexander, o. B. Meglemery, A. B.
 Keys, L. W. McCants and great many
 others, who are we'll known in Birming-
 ham.
 The present roster of officers of Birming-
 ham Division No. 166 consists of R. w.
 Arnold, chief conductor; J. B. Sandy,
 assistant chief conductor; T. M. Young,
 ductor; George Lumpkin, secretary and
 treasurer. This division meets in Bir.
 mingham at Magnolia Odd Fellows hall
 the second and fourth Sundays of each
 month in the afternoon and is one of the strongest divisions in the south, both in nun bers and the personnel of it's member ship.
 Avondale Division No. 334 meets every third and fourth Sunday afternoon in each mon tn at Avondale in Knights of Pythias hall and has the following officials: ". E.
 Luster, chief conductor; E. c. Lambert,
 assistant chief conductor; w. w. Vest
 moreland, senior conductor; = Weaver, junior conductor, and A. B. Reyes, secre- tary and treasurer.
 Avondale Division No. 334 is young or-
 ganization, scarcely two years old, but is very strong financially and in the make up of it's membership and for young divi- sion is not surpassed in completeness of organization and thoroughness of it's work for the order by any division, of the inter- national order
 In the year 1890 s'Division 69'' of the International Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, at that time separate organi- zation, was organized in Birmingham by w. H. Mothershed and was presided over by him as chief conductor until the grand division of that order met in Louisville, Ky, in the fall of 1891.
 MT. Mothershed went as delegate from his division to that meeting and was elected grand junior conductor, the fourth office in tne grand division. At that meeting the consolidation of the two orders was effected l and the International Order of Railway | Conductors became the only organization 1 of it's kind in America, and being largely strengthened by the consolidation, 1t be- came, as it's now, one of the strongest la | bor organizations ir the world. The order l does not strike, although 1t could do so. It 1 has large reserve fund, and is negotiated 1 with and recognized as an order by the | railways of the country.
 l The objects of the association are to ele- 2vate it's members socially and morally, to 1 defend them from the encroachments of organized capital and to bring the order
 itself up to that high plane of business in- I7tegrity that it's membership alone will be 1 sufficient recommendation to employment.
 It has accomplished much in the last few 1 years, as the public can readily appreciate I when the overbeariug churlishness of the conductor of years ago is contrasted with l the gentlemanly courtesy and Kindness or 1 the present knight of the bell cord. All of
 aus remember how in the early days of rail roadlng we often misUook Lne couuuctor TOT the owner of the road. The changed con.
 ditions are largely due to the Order of Rail- | way Conductors, which has never had but one strike and won 1t, and which cultivates the closest business relations with the em- l ployers of it's mbers and with all other 1 railway labor organizations, especially the 1 Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. i's UNITED MINE WORKERS OF ALABAMA. 1 Previous to October 14, 1893, the miners l of Alabama had, since the strike of 1891 | and 1892, been in a demoralized condition l and without an organization.
 In Walker county the screens were ln- 1 troduced, which was equal to reduction | of abont 15 cents per ton to the practical | miner and considerable more than that to | the inexperienced miner.
 In Jefferson and Bibb counties the opera l tors forced reductions on the miners: CD
 by reducing all day hands and all dead
 work about 10 per cent, (2) by abolishtng g certain rules which were greatly to the ad-