The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-16
NO TROUBLE BREWING
L. & N. ENGINEERS DENY THERE
 IS FRICTION.
Meeting With officials in Louisville is to Settle Minor Regulations Newssof the Railroad
 World.

It looks like mountain is being made out of molehiii in connection with the different conferences going on between the locomotive engineers and officials of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
 Engineer Conner of the Mobile and Mont gomery division was the representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers at the Louisville conference sorne days ago, and on his return to Montgom- cry he stated to The Advertiser that there was perfect underetanding between the engineers and the Louisville and Nash vilfe o1lcials and that never in the history of the road has there been more har- monious feeling between them than there is at the present time.
 Mir. Conner is in Louisville fhst now but it Is probable that were he in Mortsomt cry he would relterate his former state- ment.
 ~ '.The statement in your paper yester- day morning headed. Not So Harmon ious.' was slightly misleading" said a lo- cal Louisville and Nashville engineer to The Advertiser yesterday. There is not the slightest friction between the engi- neers and the Louisville and Nashville officials and 1t is not so much question of increase in salary that the engineers want as the straightening out of some technicalities.
 q will explain what mean by techni- calities,' he continued. Overtime, de- lays and other things caused the tangie. An engineer Is not credited with overtime unless he is two hours and five minutes late, and to show you the modus operandi I will take the Mobile and Montgomery division The yards limits for Montgom- cry of this division are beyond the shops of the Atlantic Coast Line in West Mont Sasa, kwrtrA the South and North shops tn North Mont gomery. which is the terminus of a freight engineers run. When at engineer bringing freight train into Montgomery blows his signal, on entering the yard limits in West Montgomery, the train dis patcher in the Union station registers him in We'll perhaps he Is barely two hours late right then and 1t takes two hours and five minutes late to give him his overtime. It lis possible that he is laid out getting through the yards on his way to the North Montgomery shops, two miles away. By the time he reaches the shops he is u good many. minutes beyond the two hours and five minutes overtime, but as the dlspatcher's ofice had regis. tered him only two hours late his over time cannot be allowed.
 Now it is more to get some satisfactory arrangement by which the overtime business can be regulated and the custom of dispatchers registering engineers in before they reach the end of their runs can be done away with, that the conference Is being held in Louisville than anything else.
 "One thing can state positively, and that is that the Impression that there is anything approaching an inhaTmonious feeling between the Brotherhood of Loco- motive Engineers and the Louisville and Nashville Railroal is altogether erron- eolis. for in fact the understanding bee tween the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road Company and their employees is bet ter in every way now than 1t has ever been" Lf