The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-07-07
EXPECT Big STRIKE
THROUGHOUT SOUTH
HALF MILLION RAILROAD MEN
ON FIFTEEN SOUTHERN LINES
AWAIT ORDER.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Special.-A
decision OF the Interstate Commerce
Commission, to be announced soon
viii determine whether 100000 rail-
roa demployes are to strike on all
of the fifteen Southern lines. which
would practically tie up traffic.
About 200 delegate conductors and
trainmen have been in Washington for
the last three weeks, holding confer
ences and explaining their grievances
to the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. They practically completed their
mission last night, and most Of them
have returned.
Asked Wage Increase.
"It looks like our efforts have been
In vain, said one OF the men last
night at the National Hotel. where
the delegates had their Headquarters
we are asking for an increase of
wages, such as would put us on a foot
ing with railroad men of the North
and West. Our wages are thirty-five
per cent. below the wages paid in 9TH
er sections of this great and pros
porous nation, and we think we are
entitled to a share of the prosperity
we are helping to produce. The rail-
roads can afford to pay us as much
as other men are paid, for they are
earning as much as other roads. We
are SOC, 900 strong, and there are 9TH
er sources of livelihood than rail-
roading.
Roads Ignore Demands.
THE matter was put before the off,
cials of the railroads concerned last
January by two orders of railway men
in a convention held at Macon, Ca,
but the railroads would give no an
swer to the demands of the employees
at that time" continued the delegate.
'At the call of the president of the
Order of Railway Conductors, 160
delegates from the Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainmen and Order of
n CnnI.ntArg
few weeks ago to put the matter
before the railroads with demands
that the matter be taken up and set
tied at once. The railroads refused
to acquiesce and the matter was re-
ferred to the Interstate Commerce
Commission for consideration. AT
this time practically all hope of ad-
justing the matter by arbitration has
been abandoned, and a strike of all
the railway men in the South is i'm
minent."
Will Affect Steamship Lines.
All railroads operating east of the
Mississippi River and south Of the
Ohio will be affected. All steamships
operating in coastwise trade 20 and
from Southern ports will be affected
to no mean extent.
The railroads are tHp Chesa Deake
and Ohio, Central Of Georgia, Louis
,lIIe aA~ ->asnNlle, MoUne and ONO.
Florida Peninsular, Southern RailI
way, Nashville. Chattanooga and ST.
Louis, Atlanta and West Point. West
ern Railway of Alabama, Alabama
Great Southern, Yazoo Valley Rail-
road, Appalachicola Northern, Sea-
oard Air Line, Atlantic Coast Line.
Central of Mississippi and the Chat
tanooga Southern Railway.
The steamship comanies that will
be berry materially affected are the
Merchants and Miners, Old Domin-
Unlucky Days Ahend.
In a rev years aeroplanes Will be as
common as automobiles are now, and il
is obvious that the man on foot will
have little show. The auto scorcher
viii be harmless individual, as COM
pared with the speed maniac overhead d.
man who Will take to aeroplaning
must be naturally reckless to begin
with each flight. His boilers will bust,
and his engines R1ll fly TO pieces, and
there viii be showers of hardware, and
big iron castings will hit the man on
foot. and knock him into the ground
up TO his shoulder blades. Every time
he walks around the block a falling
monkey wrench or clawhammer will
sick and weary.
Another prospective evil is the in
crease of insurance agents. There will
be aeroplane insurance, which will
enable YOU to provide for your widow
ana children in case an aviator falls
on YOU and sQuashes you. Insurance
agents of various kinds are so thick
and any scheme that threatens to swell
ti4e4t aims s..O~4,. ~ >.~...-ncv,. ~,
press and pulpit.-From the Emporia
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