The age-herald., 1900-04-15
THE SITUATION
 STILL UNCHANGED Striking Operators and Railroads
 Remain Firm. BOTH SIDES MAKE CLAIMS Strikers Say Their Ranks Are Being Recruited-Ofi Claim All
 Trains Are Running on
 Schedule Time
BOTH SIDES MAKE CLAIMS

The strike among the telegraph opera tors of the Southern and Alabama Great Southern railways remained unchanged yesterday so far as could be ascertained by visit to the headquarters of the strik- CTS and the railroad offices.
 T. M. Pierson, representing the opera tors, was positive in his assertion that the railroads were badly hampered in the operations of their trains, and that the strikers were gaining ground. The rail road officials were equally as positive in their statements that trains were moving with the greatest regularity and that all telegraph offices were filled.
 The commercial wires of the telegraph companies had some trouble yesterday on account of the grounding of some of their wires,. but who grounded them is ques- ton that cannot now be answered. The striking operators say they have not and will not resort to violence, but they will win out in a fair and peaceable manner. MT. Pierson stated to an Age-Herald re- porter that he had advised against vio- fence and that every effort was being made to prevent drunkenness among the strikers.
 u NdS Icl)oElCu yesterday tiittl thS branch of the Southern between Blockton and Gurnee junction was blocked and that not an operator was at work in that sec tion. The miners there, it is said will not allow any one to take the striking opera tors place. News comes of threats against "scabs'' in other portions of the mineral district of Alabama.
 MT. Pierson Talks
 Relative to the situation MT. Person yes terday afternoon made the following state ment:
 ''The situation is unchanged from yester- day. I am in receipt of a telegram from Jasper saying that everything there is in our favor, and that wires are working there. The telegram states that Chief Dis. patcher Moody of the Southern, w. c. Agee of the Southern Express company and Mr. Quinn are holding the Corona sta- tion down protected by deputy sheriffs, and that the citizens refuse to give the scabs, including the linemen, anything to eat, and that the tracks are blocked with coal.
 Operator Britain at Meridian, Miss, who has been working on misleading state ments, went out today when he learned the true situation.
 ''I have a report from Salisbury, N. C., that everything is all right there, and that four more men went out last night. The train men there are in great agitation, and one conductor was discharged for passing an operator
 President Powell wires from Atlanta that the outlook is exceedingly gratifying, and that the Washington train, via Bristol and Knoxville, had been abandoned, and that train No. 35 from Washington, via Salisbury and Ashville, was ten hours late.
 Tt is said that some one is cutting whole sections of wire and throwing them in the river in North Carolina. I hope none of our men are guilty of this. Eternal activ- ity is the price of success.
 "A telegram from Knoxville states that things are growing in our favor each hour, and that trains are all late and reports from them cannot be had. A crowd at Sweetwater, Tenn, rocked some men last night.