Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-25
IMPROVING THE
CAR SERVICE.
Wedding Out Of Old Car Men and
Training Of New Ones
OLDER MEN ARE VALUABLE.
New Rauds Put on only when Apso-
lutely Necessary Rushing tue new
Cars In the East

1t has been mmored about That Tor
some time past car men on the Voh-
solIdatcd Railway and Power com
panys lines have been discharged III
platoons, so to speak Win we"
TO getting some explanation from the
parties concerned. "News' represent
alive interviewed some OF the men
and also called at the offices OF the
company,
Upon being questioned an ex-employe
OF the street car system sald 80 var
az we know, most 0f those VINO nave
been discharged have been given no
cause for their dismissal. ana no rta-
son or explanation is advanced py lne
company when the men are laid on
This latter phase Of the matter Is Where
the greatest injustice Is shown 10 the
discharged men, for their irlends ana
the public may draw any conclusion
which n lack OF proper Information
may suggest A man may be as
charged for any offensc, from knock
ing down fares which Is the worst ne
cause Il IL dishonest, TO showing UP
late but II no reason " assigned for
tho dismissal, the man who Is tardy but
AS honest as the day IL long may in
ignorance be classed among the rev
who are let out for dishonesty
"As 10 the real reason for these as
charges | am not quite sure, but some
of the men say that It ls on account
of compensation. The men discharged
are usually from the ranks or those
who have served couple of years or
more In the service OF the company
Some time ago the car men asked Tor
an increase Of wages and It was theh
arranged that upon entering the en-
plpy OF the company a man should re-
celye rs cents an honr, after the hrst
year, 10 cents and after the second
year, he should be paid 20 cents an
hour. Now, by discharging the old
men, who get 20 cents an hour ana
employing new men, who get II cents,
the company saves from 20 20 25 cents
per man per day think that Is the
reason but whatever the cause may be
IL should he stated so that we would
not be left under a cloud.
A DIFFERENT STORY.
An entirely different version Is given
By the railway people In the first
place, they say, thelmen are not being
discharged BY Wholesale I'VE always
have IN the neghborhood Of 30 new
men Oh our list said an official this
morning "and they are promoted from
extras TO be regulars as occasion re-
Quires That accounts for the pres
ence OF new hands on the cars We
are also putting more cars into COM
mission ali the time and need new men.
1t Is too expensive to the company To
be breaking In new men for the purpose
of taking the places OF old men In the
service. We think most Of our eN-
perlenced employees because they give
us the best service and We are not dis
charging any Of them for the purpose
OF saving the difference between their
wages and those of the new men. 1t
wouldn't pay the company to do 1t, OF
course, we dismiss few of the older
hands for the good Of the service and
for the reason that we find some among
the new ones who become more compe-
tent than they are, You know II Is
the same in this business MS In all oth-
ers~ some men would never make good
car men II they lived to be- thousand
years old. The object OF the company
IS To give the public az good service
as possible and the capability Of our
men has much 20 do with this. An
other reason why more new men have
been seen on the cars Of late Is that
the resort season ls approaching Rid
more car men win he needed to do the
increased business Of the summer
months"
Supt Read Is in the east and is eX-
pected 10 return about the first Of
April. When the new big cars may
arrive Is not known at the office, but
they are being hurried along as fast
as possible.