Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-19
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO
AVERTs CARMEN STRIKE
Agreement Is Reached After Confer.
enccs at Clifton Forge
Shops.
THREE VESSELS CARRY MULES
Shipment During This Week From
Newport News to Warning Nations
Valued approximately at S075, 900.
New Financial Plan for Seaboard.

mont with the car rcpaircrS and car
penters at the Clifton Forge shops.
aYerunG what threatened to be
strike involving several hundred men.
The trouble grew out of fight be-
tween Foreman G. y. Van Lear and
William l.. scott, an cmployc. who
VAS later discharged The day fol-
lowing the difficulty between seventy
five and 100 men refused 10 go to
work
meeting of 500 or 100 union men
WAS hold in the City Hall at clifton
Forge Wednesday night. and the stu
alton was explained TO them by j. o.
I"%ton. o! Huntington, travelling chair
man Of the Garments Union. John r.
Could Of Richmond, superintendent of
motive power, went to Clifton Forge
!" represent the railroad. and. fol-
lowing several conferences, the men
aSrecd TO return to work.
Three shiploads, including a Brit
ish vessel now loading, will have sail
ed from tho Chesapeake and Ohio
docks at Newport News this week
with total Of $500 mules, purchased
in the United States by agents of the
British and French governments for
use OF the allies armies. The value
OF these mules is approximately $G75.-
600, and all were purchased in the
Middle West. There were 200 stock
cars used 70 carry these consiGnments
OF mules over the Chesapeake and
Ohio 10 Newport News.
y now financial plan is being work
cd out by bankers connected with the
Seaboard Air Line Railway, which is
attracting much interest in Wall
Street. according to the New York
World. The reported plan includes
the Issuance Of a new kind OF pre-
ferrcd stock in exchange for tho pres
cnt preferred stock on the basis of
two shares of new for three shares
of the old preferred. No statement
has been made concerning the advan-
tagc to DC gained by the change, but
il is understood that the new method
will be less cumbersome.
Bulletins issued by c. H. Blakes-
more. chairman of the safety commits
sion OF the Norfolk and Western Rail-
way. show a decided reduction in ac-
cidents during the first twenty months
the salty first" cmovmcnt has been
III operation on the system. The total
pay roll and the total number OF in
juries OF May, 1913, is taken as n base
line 70: purposes OF comparison on
4 chart accompanying the bulletin, on
which is a plotted line, showing the
number of injuries and a line show
ing the huctuation Of the pay roll.
With relation TO this base-line from
August. 1913 Ohe high point, with 4G3
accidentsD, TO December, 1919. with
l12 accidents. there was n decline of
20 per cent. From May, 1919. the
lines showing the pay roll and in
jur!cs gradually diverge, and at the
end Of 1919, the pay roll had declined
4 per cent, while the accidents had
gone down % per cent. AT the end OF
1919 the pay roll had declined Il per
cent and the accidents IS per cent, a
II per cent. When the safety move
ment was inaucuratcd on the Norfolk
and Western, one employc on the line
was hcing injured for each $4,000 on
the pay roll. For December, 1914. one
employee was injured for each $1,000
the pay roll, and the approximate
same ratio is being maintained at the
present time.
In connection with the safety move
mcnt on the Baltimore and Ohio that
railroad has issued a pamphlet on
railway sanitation covering a series
OF nvc articles on the subject by DR.
r. NJ. Partlctt, Il member of the Balti-
more and ohio commission on safety
The Southern Railway has ordered
two Mikado type locomotives from the
Baldwin Locomotive Works.
me Norfolk and southern Railroad
has placed an order with the Ameri-
can Car and Foundry Co for twenty
four ballast cars and one parlor car
Il. w. Gricc, assistant to the presi-
dent of the Chesapeake and Ohio. in
charge OF operation. returned yester-
day from Chicago, wheL< he attended
the convention of the American Rail-
way Association.
y. Is. Hoke, who was recently APP
pointed travelling freight agent of the
New York Central lines, with head
quarters in Richmond, is again in the
city. after trip through Southwest
ern Virginia and North Carolina
1. L. Adams, travelling freight agent
of the Western Maryland has return
ed from trip through the Carolinas.