The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-15
ROADS ASK ASQUARE
DEAL ON FULLCREW
Prominent Officials Say Law
Causes Waste Of SI.lOO.-
600 Yearly.
EMPLOYEES DENY It'll

ALBANY. April IA third hearing
on the Spring bill amending the full
crew law. was given by the Senate Pub
lie Service Committee to-day.
Declarations by prominent railroad
officials that the systems Of New York
are spending about sl,10O.O00 n year,
which is worse ;han thrown away"
because OF the full crew bill, were met
nv the statement from railroad em-
ployees, one an Assemblyman. that it II
physical impossiblity to run trains
I'm accordance with the book Of rules
of the companies without a full crew.
The bill permits the Public Service
Commission to reduce the number Of
crews in certain cases II the railroad
proves to the commissions satisfaction
that there should be- a reduction
Assemblymln James VI Mead or Buff
falo appeared againSt the hill. He said
he was 2s years old ami has been rail
reading since he was ! ,. Twenty years
ago, Assembyman Mead declared, there
were short trains with fun crews, three
hrakemen. Now. he said. trains arc
four or five times as long with cars
twice az LONG. but the railroads want
TO run with only ;wo hrakemen.
''1f you gentlemen canno; understand
the technicalities of the subject. I would
not try to repeal the law" he said "lf
YOU don't know it's wrong. lei it stand,
for We who work on the railroads know
/, is right"
\. H. Smith. president of the New
York Central Railroad Company, de-
Clared
II am here for the sole purpose ~
asking AT your hands n square dca
in remcdying the conceded wrong which
has been done through the enactment OF
the statute Of 1918. Tho change that
Is inperatively required is one which
will squarely and fairly place the pri-
mary responsiblity ~ to the proper
number of men required on any particu.
lar train or class II trains where II
belongs. with tho managers of the rail
roads
"lf that is done We are then perfectly
willing that the judgment nf the man.
ayers shall be subject to the revision
: and determination of the properly con
stjtuted authorities OF the state IN.
Public Service Commission. This can
rot hr done 10y leaving the arbitrar,
/ determination to tn" Legislature" as Z
| stands in the law of 1913 and ther
authorizing the Pubic Service com,nis
! sion 10 reach a conclusion other thar
! that which has been reached 10y ~,
! Legislature. its creator, and At the 81 mn
time placing tho rrSpons ihiliiy for tn,
number Of men required TOR safe opera
! ton IN the first instance on the Publ
/ Service Commission where it does no
! belong"
/ other speakers against the hill wer
Ira \. Place. vice-pres idcn' Of the New
! York Central y J. stone. vice-preside den
, of the Erie, u. II. WOODWARD Rochcst.
/ chamber OF Commerce; VI =. McIner
uey general superintendent Buffalo
Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad
Charles y. fauldug. counsel, New Yor
! Central.
The opponents Of the Hill were Fra n
Vincent. order OF Railroad Conductor.
state Of New York Thomas T.. Rvar
| brotherhood of Locomotive Fire'nen AN
! Enginemen Of the state: q. II. Sine.
vlce-president. brotherhood of Railroa
Trainmen Judge r. McDonough Of A.
hany and John J. Fitzgibhons. forme
deputy compensation commissioner.