The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-11
.LAB0RERS WANT
H|GHE R WAGES
They Are Quitting Work t.
Enforce Demands on the
Southern.
Citizen S PROTEST
They Ask Enlarged Scheme OF
Improvement for Union
Station.
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Raleigh. N. c., July 1o.-The South
ern Railway Company is having some
trouble with it's 1aborers on this divi-
sion for the work directed by the
section masters. The company has for
quite a while been paying 81 a day
for the ordinary labor. The demand
is for $3.50. About 100 men have quit
work on the division, but the railroad
people nave had little trouble in fill
ing their places, so that the trouble
has scarcely assumed the proportions
OF a strike. The division extends from
Goldsboro to Spencer, with branch
roads.
The high school committee for the
Wakelon public high school, the most
important high school in the rural
sections of Wake county, has employ
ed Professor Stanford Martin as prin.
cipal.
Newspaper reports of the Sixth
Judicial District convention at Smith
field credited Charles u. Harris. OF
this city, with declaring that he is
| still in favor of the Democratic pri-
mary system. This is q mistake. Mr..
Harris really declared his opposition
to the primaries. indorsing the view
expressed in the convention by Ed. 8,
Abel, who declared that If continued
they would disrupt the party.
Citizens Protest.
The Corporation Commission devoted
nearly all OF Saturday to hearing evi.
dence as to the fight that certain cit.
liens Of Raleigh are making against
the $4,000 improvements on the
union passenger station here, the con-
tention being that there should be
/ greater enlargement of the building
and the addition of space for addi-
tional trackage for the train sheds.
Quite numbec OF witnesses were ex-
amined as TO the growth Of the, pas
senger business in Raleigh the past
few years, and to prove that the
4 changes in progress would be inade-
quate. II. w. Miller, assistant to
vice-President A B. Andrews. testi-
fed at length. asserting that Raleigh
would have the largest waitinS-room
of any station in the State. He gave
figures as to April business In num-
her OF the principal towns of the State
which showed 462 for Raleigh, $40 In
Charlotte. 3s6 for Asheville (not in
Guiding round trip tickets), 2s6 for
| Salisbury, 702 Tor Greensboro. 1917 for
| Dnrham. These figures are the sales
of passenger tickets for April. Mr.
Miller minated. too. that the rail-
roads contemplated inclosing a con-
| course that would add $50 to the
| waiting room capacity when 1t be.
came necessary. The commission is te
hear argument by counsel later. How
ever, in the meantime the work or
the imprt vements that are being pro-
tested against by the petitioning cit
izens. is going forward rapidly
Hon. j. NJ. Young State Insurance
| test hay i,Sri m
tion to deliver an address in Charles
tor next Wednesday before the As
ISOLATION of Hardware Dealers for the
two Carolinas. He will talk of fire in
surance as it relates to the insurance
OF hardware. stores.
| DIR. Jno. a. Ferrall, assistant secre.
tary of the State Board of Health
who has charge of the campaign fol
| the eradication of the hookworm dis
ease. has completed arrangements fol
| the men of the Third Regiment ir
camp at Morehead this week to be ex-
amined for the presence of hookworm
Some exceptionally valuable statistic:
bearing on the prevalence of the dis
case among grownup people are ex
i pected. 1t Is pointed out that some o
the colleges oE the state showed NOR
| than 80 per cent of infection anon:
the students.
Il Members of the North Carolina Cor
| II poration Commission say that they d
not care to express any opinion OF
i the recent decision by the Interstat
Commerce Commission on the Win
ston-Sale and Durham cases involv
( ing long haul freight rates to Nortl
Carolina points and the Virginia cit,
rates until they have opportunity t
study the opinion in full. They say
however, that they believe 1t will b
found that a free construction of tn
rulings involved in the opinion will
= admit of more concessions to Mort
! Carolina shippers than newspaper re