The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-06-14

Senator Simmons has done a great
work in securing these appropriations
for North Carolina rivers and
Every single amendment of his was
adopted by the Senate and retained
by the conference committee.
Representative Morehead has been
a visitor at the White House for two
days past. He is trying to help his
friend, Thomas Settle, who Is in
Teiegraphers' Strike Avoided.
All danger Of a strike Of Southern
Railway t~elegraphers has been avoid
ed by an agreement reached TO-DAY -
the arbitrator. under the terms OF
which fifteen hundred telegraphers on
Southern Railway system are
given an increase o. s per cent n
wages, and other concessions
The railway company estimates tbat
increase ct cost to the read viii
be between $4,000 n 500 0 per
annum for this class of its EMPLOYEES
aggregate demands of the tele-
graphers would have meant an in
crease of SO FER cent in the present
wage scale. The agreement signed
today Will represent a total Increase
in the pay roll amounting to 10 per
cent.
The arbitration between the rail-
road and the Order of Railway Tele-
Sraphers, representing the men, was
under the Fardaman act.
Negotiations ave been on since the
first of March. w. r. Vance, Dean
of the George Washington Law
School, acted as umpire; j. j. Derno-
dy, vice-president of the Order of
Railway Photographers, represented
the employees, and j. S. b. Thompson.
assistant to the president of the South
ern Railway, represented the road.
The board has been at work since
May 24th.
J. J. Dernody dissented from the
award in the first paragraph of the
agreement which sets forth that onry
those station agents who are actually
employed as telegraph or telephone
operators in the movement of trains,
or such as are required at some time
to perform those duties, shall be con-
sldered t~elegraphers and paid as such-
All employees performing the
duties Of telegraph operators or agent
operators and all those telephone Op-
orators who render services IN con-
nection with the movement Of trains
and all such levermen as are speci-
fed in the schedule attached to the
contract Of submission, dated April
18th, 1910. will be considered telege
raphers within the meaning Of this
agreement: Provided, that any agent
who is required by the employer to
perform the services of a telegram
or telephone operator during any pOr-
ton Of the year shall be deemed an
agent-Operator and within the pro-
visions Of this agreements
Section two provides that ten con-
secutive hours, including the meal
hour, shall constitute a days work
The men may be kept on for not ex-
ceeding twelve hours when necessary
to meet early or late passenger trains
At offices where two or more teleg.
raphers are employed. nine consecu'
tive hours shall constitute a dayf
work; and at offices where three OF
more are employed, eight consecutive
hours shall constitute a days work.
Photographers shall be excused from
labor on Sundays and legal holiday
as far as practicable without detrb
ment to the service. The men Wht
are required to work or such hOlL-
days as much as one-half the regular
working day, are to be given fifteen
days leave of absence each year Oh
full pay, with transportation over the
cOmpany's lines, provided they have
been in the employ Of the company a.
least two years.
The t~elegraphers asked for annual
leave, with pay, regardless of length
of time in the service. The award re.
uuires hat they shall have been il
the service of the road two years
and been employed on Sundays ant
holidays, one-half the usual workin;