The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-02-23

Many Strikers Have Gone Back to
Workplaces OF Those Who Have
Not Have Been Filled With New
Men-Schedule OF Trains Has Nos
Beer Effected by Strike-Strikers
Have Conducted Themselves i'm an
Orderly Manner.

Very little has been heard in the last
few days in regard to the strike Of the
maintenance of way employees of the
Coast Line. from the beginning this
strike caused the railroad very little
and it is now learned that
a number of the strikers have return
I'd to work IL where they have not
returned the positions have been filled
with new men. Tt is said that in sew
eraI instances where new men had
been employed hat after being out
several days the strikers returned to
work and the new men had to be
placed in other positions. When the
strike went into effect all ~the.carpen-
tiers h were employed in the new
Coast Line building walked out but in
a few days a number of them weat
hack to work and these, together with
a new force Of men, are now at work
en the building and the work is pro-
crossing rapidly.
People who have been on the road
much of their time since the strike be-
gan not railroad men, state that the
passenger trains have not been effected
in the least by the strike. They ia
they know nothing about the reightS.
1t is said that many of the section
masters were men who mad always
we'd On the Coast Line and that they
went back to work rather than lose
their positions and be compelled 60
move to some other section of the state
to n employment.
The strikers nave conducted them
selves in a very orderly manner during
tho ctrilrn and Uifh tho nvnnnfinn nf
several instances in the lower part of
Georgia, 10 violence has been resort
ed to.
If has been rumored that different
railroad organizations on the CoaSt
Line were going to strike but no cred
-ence is placed in these rumors. One
of the latest rumorS to this effect was
that the engineers were going to strike
unless the Coast Line and maintenance
Of way employees came to terms. 1t was
stated that if the present strike Lasted
much longer the roa would o be
in poor condition and that the en-
gineers would not u over it. Yester-
days Florence Times contains the fol-
lowing which shows that there was on
basis for this rumOr:
"The Times is assured by a repre-
sentative of the Brotherhood of loco
motive engineers that there is positive
IL no truth in the report that they
win take any part with the strikers
and notify the railroad company that
they will not run over the road unless
1t is kept up as it was before the strike.
1.-The reports in question have not
been published on simple hearsay icy
the Times but have come from such
sources as their value as news matters
could not be disputed. 1t is the busi-
ness of the Times to publish such legit-
mate news as can be gathered In so
important a matter as the railroad
strike and is as usual in such cases
some false reports may come very
straight and these will be corrected by
the Times with pleasure they
are unfortunately admitted to our
columns.
unfortunately for the newspaper IN
such cases the men who give the In
formation will not allow their names
to be used and the paper must protecI
those who favor it's newsgatherers."