Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-07-28
NO STOCK on BUTTER TRAINS.
Other Freight Shipped and Received
Without Much Delay.

Without Much Delay.
Although freight service has been par
TALLY resumed on the Central Vermont
railroad in spite OF the strike OF the
Grand Trunk conductors and brakemen,
the stock and butter trains have not run
this week and the drovers' business has
suffered in consequences. All the butter
from this point is shipped to market by
express ordinarily except one carload
from North Randolph that goes out by
freight Tuesday and that is being sent by
express now. The stock train last week
had started on its way Monday just be-
fore the strike went into effect and the
cattle were delivered in market at the us
ual time. The prospect for next Monday
is hard to determine.
At the local depot no perishable
freight is received but everything else is
taken subject to delay. Tuesday the first
freight from Burlington came In since
the strike commenced, and brought a few
supplies to the groeers, whose stocks are
beginning to need replenishing. Freight
from Boston comes every day but q good
deal oigrocery merchandise is bought In
Burlington, Montpelier and White River
Junction. Goods ordered two weeks ago
have not arrived yet, and w. w. Morton
has had to nave new potatoes sent him
by express. Mail and express have not
failed, and all the passenger trains have
been running pretty close to schedule
time.
The attempts OF Mackenzie King,
Canadian minister OF labor, to effect a
settlement of the Grand Trunk strike
have fallen through, at least for the pres
ent, the Grand Trunk management tax
ing the view that the time for arbitration
has passed and all that the company re-
in order to resume the full opera
tion Of the road is the protection for its
men, to which il Is legally entitled.
Saturday night and Sunday saw the
sending out OF all OF the regular freiRhts
and many extra ones and the same was
repeated Monday. Sunday q total OF
436 freight cars was handled which
marks a very good Sunday, indeed. The
movement on week days in times
when peace and not strike reigns is be-
tween 500 and 700.
The shops in St. Adams, closed at the
beginning of the strike, were reopened
yesterday, calling over $50 men back TO
work. Crews have been secured to run
all passenger, mixed and way freight
and normal conditions OF freight
over the whole system is being re-
The Grand Trunk has decided to treat
all strikers as men put of their employ,
and to ill its ranks with new men or
those who quit rs occasion warrants.
This will spell severe trouble for many OF
the strikers, especially the conductors.
Not onlu N f1 81. rnan u~k1 afrnofr H..
their pension interests, but the road will
not take on permanent employees over so
years OF age. This meanH that those over
so years Of age will be ineligible. Lists
Of the men over so have already been pre-
pared, and the understanding is that
those past the age limit will And them
selves out Of a job so far as the railroad is
As other railroads have the
same age limit, or a younger one, il is
that this will mean a number of
those who went on strike will find them
selves permanently out VI employment al
the only business they know. On the
division a list of the men rem
dered Ineligible BY age has been prepared
and shows that al except q halt-dozen
are conductors, many OF whom are within
a few years Of the pension age. James
Canaly, passenger conductor on the Barre
a Williamstown branch OF the Central
Vermont railway, who remained loyal to
the company and had kept on duty, has
been promoted 10 be assistant trainmaster
Of the Central division with headquarters
at Montpelier.
Vice-President Murdoch, Of the train
men, who Is in charge Of the strike, de-
that the railroad company is exag-
gerating is enterprise, and that according
10 his information not more than two per
cent Of the regular freight traffic is NOV
ing. The report Of A. Kennedy, OF the
Engineers brotherhood TO the trainmen
only 10 per cent OF the Grand
Trunk enginemen are on their regular
the remaiping 20 per cent being