The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-24
Commissioners Grant Raise or
 Street Car Fare As Temporary
 Measure To Meet Emergency
Receiver Bradley to Hold Conference With Street Car Employes in Refer ence to Wage Settlement. Court to Pass on Proposi- ton of City

The next step to be made by Receiver Lee c. Bradley in the matter of raise in street car fares here will be to confer with the trainmen and shop men and upon that conference, which may be protracted, much will depend, according to a statement given out by MT. Bradley last night. Following the resolution passed at an executive session of the city com mission held at 1 o'clock yesterday 1 afternoon, which resolution will al- | low the Birmingham Railway. Light and Power company to collect o~cent street car fares, the commission sent 1 a letter to Receiver Bradley express l ing the views of the commissioners and explaining the action they have taken and that they may in the fu- | ture take
 eve will make an earnest endeavor | to meet the emergency under the con
 ditions imposed by the city" MT. Brad | ley said in his statement. He said and carmen will be called immediately
 and indicated that action by the court l will be taken very soon.
 l The resolution unanimously passed by the city commission yesterday aft | ernoon refused the application of Re- l ceiver Bradley to waive the fares con | tract in the franchise, but granted temporarily and conditionally a 6-cent fare on street cars. The resolution sus- pended the fares clause temporarily and will become effective upon its accept
 ance by the receiver, which shall be authorized by the court appointing him.
 The present plan of the receiver is | to take up the wage question with
 the men, it is believed, then proceeding,
 if an agreement can be reached which 1 shall be considered such as to make
 it possible for the company to operate
 on 6-cent fares, to have the court
 authorize the acceptance of the city's
 temporary suspension of the fares
 clause.
 REFUSED TO WAIVE
 The receiver had requested the city | to waive it's fares clause, proposing that the company then apply to the Alabama public service commission,
 after a wage agreement with the em- l ployes for the necessary increase In l fares.
 Members of the commission yester- day reperated former statements that
 the city will not at any time agree to
 waive any part of its contract and that
 whatever arrangements will be the out
 come of the present discussions and
 conferences will be temporary only.
 That the commission will go very
 slow in granting any permanent raise ; in car fares or in rewriting any part of it's contract has been indicated by action and statements of the com missioners repeatedly during the past week.
 : The resolution adopted yesterday fol- lows
 "Be it resolved by the board of com missioners of the city of Birmingham as
 follows
 , "Section 1. The written application
 by Lee c. Bradley, Esq, receiver oi
 Birmingham Railway, Light ana fo"- , CT company, dated August IS, 1918, re- : l utesting the board of commissioners to , waive the franchise restrictions anc
 contract provisions of the franchise and fare contracts of the Birmingham Rail
 way Light and Power company ane the Birmingham Tidewater Railway
 
 2 it requests a waiver of any term, con f dition or limitation of any outstanding s franchise or contract.
 ! 'Sec 2. Subject to the conditions ane limitations herein enumerated, the re
 ceiver of the Birmingham Railway - Light and Power company and of th' fl Birmingham Underwater Railway com III pany, and the Birmingham-Edg III electric company, are hereby severalll H authorized to charge and collect far' III of not to exceed 6-cents in lieu of III fare restricted to not more than II cents under the terms of the severa II franchises or contracts outstanding be II tween the city of Birmingham and sai' III respective railways or under which sat II several railways are being operated Il II whole or in part within the jurisdic tion of the city of Birmingham; bu III this suspension of 5-cent fare limi III is subject to the following expres ll conditions and limitations: III "uD This resolution may be extended II rescinded, restricted or modified by law III full action by the board of commission III CTS in whole or in part, at any time III without notice; provided that in tn II event that the board of commissioner III shall take action reducing the cen III maximum hereby temporarily permitted | it's action to that end shall not becom lll effective for thirty days after the reso H lution shall be adopted unless the boar III of commissioners shall have given tn railway to be affected thirty days nc II tice of it's intention.
 + (2) Neither the adoption of this res fl olution nor the collection or receipt b III the respective railways of fares in es II cess of cents shall be construed as II modification, waiver or abandonment ( n inc limitations of such franchises or COT II tracts or as consent on the part of thi