The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-10
ON MONTGOMERY DIVISION.
Passenger Trains Were on Time Yes.
 day.

Passenger Trains Were on Time Yes | day.
 If the strike of the conductors and I trainmen of the Mobile and Ohio Rail- | road which went into effect at noon yesterday, gave the officials of the com pany any trouble on the Montgomery division, it was not indicated in Mont | gomery.
 The first passenger train due in Mont gomery after the strike became enec- | tive was No 3. It is scheduled to reach Montgomery at 6:15 p. m.. and 1t rolled I into the Union Railway Station on sched- ule time yesterday evening. Captain Nat J. Rogers, the regular conductor, was in charge of the train ana | his regular crew was with him. The Mobile and Ohio runs two passen. ger trains daily between here and Co., | lumbus, Miss Train No. leaves Mont | gomery at 10:15 a. m. Train NO. | reaches Montgomery at 6:15 p. m. The conductors of these trains are Captain Rogers and W. E. Hopper. will you take No. out tomorrow morning?" Captain Rogers was asked by a representative of The Advertiser.
 Yes, sir, will" Captain Rogers re- sponded readily. "I have been running that train four years. and will take 1t out tomorrow morning if the company | let's me-
 Then Captain Rogers talked without reserve about the strike.
 l q quit the Order of Railway Conduc- | tors in Columbus, Miss. at 7:30 o'clock | this morning when I received the order l to strike" said Captain Rogers T have been member of the order many years, | and no one can question my fidelity to my l fellow workmen. I simply believe the strike order is wrong and my conviction of duty impels me to be loyal to the l company"
 It is understood that Captain Hopper,
 the other passenger conductor, entertains
 the same views. At any rate. the strike | order found him on the road with train No 4. which he took to Columbus. Miss, yesterday It was said last night that he would be in charge of train No. 8. | which leaven Columbus, Miss, at 10:15
 o'clock this morning for Montgomery. The freight conductors and brakerneLl
 were not so loyal to the company as the
 passenger train crews. It was said by q
 committee of strikers that fully fifty
 men on the Montgomery division quit
 their trains at 12 o'clock in accordan nc
 with the strike order Some of them
 left the trains between terminal sta
 tions.
 G. L. Culpepper. conductor and Pat rick Garner flagman of freight train
 No. "A. left the train at Tuscaloosa. J. R.
 Coker. a regular conductor, took Culpep-
 per's place, and A. M. Captie, section | foreman, went on the train as gman.
 The first freight train due to leave
 Montgomery after the strike became ef-
 fective was No. S2, scheduled to go west
 at o'clock last night Regular conduc-
 tors in Montgomery declined to take this
 train out, and it was placed in charge of
 Charles J. Read, formerly conductor
 employed by the Plant System. He took
 a negro as brakeman and Jasper W.
 House, formerly employed in the Mont
 gomery yards. as flagman.
 The train did not leave Montgomery
 until 10:10 o'clock and P. s. Hay, a pas
 senger agent of the company, was on
 board. He said he was going to Tusca-
 loosa on business.
 There were nineteen cars in the train and there was no disorder in the yards
 when it was being made up.
 L. c. Campbell. Yardmaster of the
 company in Montgomery. said that J. L.
 Stevens, Night Yard Foreman was the
 only member of his yard force who quit , work. He said that the freight train due
 to leave Montgomery this morning would
 probably be on time.
 J. I. Lett, a freight train conductor of the Mobile and Ohio who lives in , Montgomery. Is member of the Griev-
 ance Committee of the strikers. He said yesterday that the strike extended to
 every division of the road and that about
 900 miles of track and about 600 men were affected
 The Montgomery Division of the com :. pany, he said, was the best organized of
 any of the divisions. He said he was confident the men would secure their de- , mands from the company They were in position, he said, to remain out indefin- itely, as the Order of Railway Conduc- [ tors and Brotherhood ef Railroad Train men pay their men per centage of thefi I salaries when they are ordered on a
 strike.
 , The strike, Mir. Lott said. was or f dered by C. H. Wilkins, Grand Senior Conductor of the Order of Railway Con- l ductors. .|acting for E E. Clark. Grand , Chief Conductor, and W. c. Lee. Vice q Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Rail
 way Trainmen. acting for P. H. Morris
 sey. Grand Master.
 Messrs. Wilkins and Lee, Mir. Lott said { have established headquarters in St Louis where they are awaiting a reply
 from Charles s. Clarke. General Manager { of the Mobile and Ohio Company to the demands of the men.
 , The conductors and trainmen have ask
 ed for mileage scale of wages instead
 oI SdldTy Scale ana uniform scdle al
 over the system. Mir. Lott admitted tha
 General Manager Clarke had made con
 sessions to the men. but the Grievance Committee did not think the concessions
 were sufficient
 2 E. F. Dougherty, of Meridian Miss. fl !, Chairman of the Grievance Committee s on the part of the Conductors, and c. W n Rust, a brakeman of St. Louis. is chair |, man on the part of the Trainmen. ]. The annual convention of the Order O t Railway Conductors will begin in Pitts l burg. Pa. Tuesday. and 1t is said tha
 the Mobile and Ohio strike will be a liv, t subject before that body. n EMPLOYEES STATEMENT.