The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-04-17
ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN IN SYM
PATTY.

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PATHY.
There is no doubt that the engineers
and fremen are in sympathy with the
telegraph men in their demands. IN
injury Of one is the concern or al. Inc
Southern Railway IOfflcialS refused TO
treat with the officers OF the order OF
Railroad Telegraphers, who asked TO nave
specific hours 70 work and extra pay for
extra time, but were willing to treat with
them as individuals. If that point is
maintained by the railroad officers, how
long will it be before it Will be applied TO
the BrotherhCd OF Engineers. Firemen
and Conductors. Capt Ryder, Superlnten-
dent of the Charlotte division, says that
the telegraph men cannot succeed because
there are q surplus CT operators.
Capt. Ryder thinks that on general
principles a telegraph operator has small
chance of success in d strike. 1t IS dll-
ferent," said he to the Charlotte observer,
with an engineer or conductor. THESE
men spend two or three years learning
their work, and they are more or less
difficult to replace. But it is easy 10
start up a telegraph school and turn out
a hundred operators in from three to SIX
months"
VICE PRESIDENT DOLPHIN IN THE
STATE.
The Charlotte Observer notes the pres
ence in Charlotte of Mr.. NJ. NJ. Dolphin,
vice president and general counsel of the
o. r. T. in Charlotte.
He said that he was just from Ottawa,
Canada where he, in conference with Sir
Wilfred Laurier, the Premier of Canada,
had satisfactorily settled the differences
between the operators and the railroad
authorities of the ~inter-Colonial railroad,
owned by the Government of Canada.
MIR. Dolphin expressed himself as salts
fed with the present condition OF the
strike, which he thinks will be successful
in the end. He gave in detail the griev-
Gnce Of the operators and stated that
their demands were reasonable and should
be acceded to. The Southern said he.
is the exact demonstration OF a trust.
They work the telegraphers from IA to is
hours a day. and become peevish, petul-
ant and beligerent when the men ask
for L hours a day, and the same arrange
ment for extra pay for extra work that
is made with a section master. From
understrappers TO the general manage
the railroad officials have been uncivil
and unfair
The southern is hard put-to for OPP
erators.' said Mr.. Dolphin. They are
searching New York with a fine-tooth
comb fer men and they are unsuccessful.
They have employed Pinkertons and
another detective agency to ferret out
operators and send them South, and still
the road is being locked by scarcity of
operators"
Speaking Of the inconvenience caused
the Southern, Mr.. Dolphin said that he
learned on the way from Washington here
that 300 ears of freight had been turned
over to the Seaboard for transportation;
that no. freight cars are running between
-Asheville and Salisbury. and that disaf-
fectiOnS among employees on other divi-
siOns of the Southern was causing an
equal degree Of annoyance.
When asked the purpose of his visit
10 Charlotte, Mr.. Dolphin said that he
left Canada TO come here and that he
would operate from here unless some
arose that necesSitated his
elsewhere. Upon being inform
ed that there is little disaffection among
the operators IN this division. he smoke
hopefully CT a remedy. and said so soon
as the operators now working on this
division understood the full import of the
strike they would leave their posts. Mr..
Dolphin said that he is in direct mi
With President Powell, who is al
sanguine as to the strike being
ultimately beneficial.