Arizona republican., 1913-06-27

o'clock He is called again at 2:20 r. m and works until 4:2o o'clock. He Is called again it r. m. and works until 11.o5 D. m
 Another man begin at 6 a. 1n He works until S:46 o'clock He is called 1t 11.10 and works until 12:1O o'clock. He is again called at 4:20 and works 1 until 5.40 T. III. He then takes dn- other ear and works until lo:50 at night being out sixteen hours and 1 fifty minutes te get in ten hours work.
 | "On the Glendale line q man starts 1 out at 1.10 m. and is off in Glen | dale at 11:10 q. m. He goes on again at 2:10 o'clock and is off at 11:30 in Glendale where he must re- main over night. The next night he remains in Phoenix. The men must keep two rooms, one in Glendale and one in Phoenix The company rents the room and then collects room rent from each of the men running Glen dale cars
 J J. Belford was the first carman called. He told of the deposits re quired by new employees, both for equipment as well as for assurance that the man would not quit under four months In case a man quit the service before the four months, he said, he forfeited this $750 If he quit without first giving two weeks notice he also forfeited whatever pay was coming to him. He cited the m stance of William Humphries, whom he said lost $17.O0 in wages due him because If his failure to give two weeks notice.
 Lee Moffit told of the hours he spent as conductor on Glendale car His figures corresponded with those Davis had presented by request. He said that in order to get enough sleep he was obliged to go to bed in the middle of the day and snatch a said that he and three others paid on dollar month each to the company
 for room in Glendale and then
 furnished their own bedding.
 Moffit also referred to the differ
 ence in cost of living here. Among
 other things he stated he paid six
 teen dollars month for four rooms
 in Phoenix, while two houses he
 owned in DanviHe, Ill, one of eight
 rooms and the other of six rooms,
 he rented for ten dollars and eight dollars respectively. And l get Zo
 cents an hour here and 1 got z5
 cents to 30 cents there he added
 In Indianapolis he said the wages
 paid range from 25 cents to % cents
 per hour.
 Asked if he knew what the receipts
 of a Glendale car were he said he
 had kept a duplicate receipt slip
 of his runs for several months and
 that he turned in on an average of
 $1O0O each month for his car. There
 are two cars and this, he said, would make the average receipts of the llne,
 with two cars and two crews, $2OOO each month. He said that he under
 stood that the railway company in
 Phoenix had voluntarily raised the
 wages seven years ago, the raise
 amounting at that time to once cent an hour all around.
 Other witnesses stated that they knew the receipts of Washington
 street car would amount for each run to about $500 or $20.00, making the days receipt for each car up wards of $36.
 w I, Ward, the discharged con ductor. whose troubles precipitated Inc strike. took the stand and told i of his differences with Inspector Bush as well as with Manager Mitchell. lie accused both officials of lacking the courtesy the company expected of US other employees. He referred to in- stances where men had been pup liclv called down" one or these +ir,os being when Manager Mitchell accused him of being lacking in good sense for permitting man to stand unOn a car fender. He sad that Manager Mitchell saw the man on the fender and did not order him OH and abused Ward, when the conduc- tor was not so situated upon the car that he could see the man upon the fender
 George Smalley acted as steno-
 grapher throughout the proceedings