Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-05-26
An Easy Way.

/ AN EASY way
Connellsyille, Pa.-There is. a
strike breaker working on cab work
in the erecting shop, who does
Repairing of worn parts. He takes
them out and replaces them with new
material He told our informant
that when the new parts were used
or there was a scarcity of the same,
he intended to high ball, as he knew
nothing about repairing worn parts.
The company has this day posted
schedule of working rules in the
shop signed by Harris" and "Pot-
ter" to govern the men of all crafts.
1t is part Of our old working sched
ule and embodies the following: Time
and One-half for all overtime and
holidays, 10 hours constitutes days
work, expenses to the amount of one
dollar will be allowed while on the
road UP to and including 10 days.
Older men and men with families de-
pendent on them will be retained
when reduction in the force be-
comes necessary. These are the main
rules the others. being unnecessary
to mention as they are taken from
| our schedule.
We have just learned that the en-
gineers who were suspended for two
weeks on account of their charge of
| breaking parts of machinery, have
been paid for the time thew lost, two
/ Of the men having received $67.2O
each for the time that they lost; these
men were in charge of engines that
the officials claimed were deliberately
broken down, by nuts and small
pieces Of iron being placed in the
guide rails. They claimed this so
happened to engine 1109 working at
depot on two different occasions. both
times the engineers were given two
weeks, both of them have been paid
for time lost. On another occasion
one of the lOyalists put new back
end bearing on an engine and doing
so heightened the rod. That engine
knocked out front cylinder head be-
fore going a mile from shop, again
the engineer was suspended for two
weeks. This man was also paid for
the time that he was of. The COM
I pnay makes no attempt to make or
keep record of engine failures ON
this division, as there are too many.
One of the scab protectors having
lost his job on the force, was given a
| Job hosting, and while he was in
this position, pieces of nuts and iron
was found on different parts of the
machinery where they would do a
little but not much harm. He was
suspected of doing the jobs ''in an
attempt to get his sinecure back" and
was dismissed from the service, since
| which time no nuts or iron has been
found ON the engines.
The foreman OF these strike
breakers are plainly worried and are
not backward in telling the same.
They say it is awful to have to deal
or work around a bunch like they
are. The strike-breakers tell them
that they are not hired to make any
records or do any work. They say
THAT they are strike-breakers and are
after the iron men, and the so-called
I'foremen must let them do as they
please, because they are put back to
work by the G. F. when any OF his
lsubordinates discharge them. The
Estrike-breakers along with every one
else, have been granted an increase
of 6 per cent. But the strike-breakers
are not paid as well as we considered
they were. We have been informed
by a man in position to know, that
l few Of the rike-breakers have been
paid the highest rate and many OF
them are being paid rs cents an hour
II All Late.
GlenWood, Pa.-Passenger trains
Icontinue to run from Is minutes to
/ two hours late, on account OF the
poor work that is being done on their
passenger engines as we'll as their
| freight engines, many of the engines
are being hauled in ON account OF In
| iectors failing as we'll as broken parts
OF machinery.
Worst in Six Months,
H Cleveland, O.-Conditions in. and
around the shops as we see them are
as bad if not worse than they were
six months ago, instead of hauling
their broken-down engines to the
shop. they are now going along the
road picking them up in pieces Pas
n sengerA trains continue to run and It
il 0uite a common occurrence to see
them being hauled in by yard en-
h gines. They have workin" In the
shops at present 81 machinists, 20
helners and g. handymen, just double
the amount when we came on strike,
and no classified repairs turned out
for over three months.
Tools ScraD Iron.