The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-12
WHITAKER STATES
 SCORES APPLYING
 FOR A. B. &A. JOBS
New Employees Being Signed as Fast as They Can be Ex- amined-Fifty White Men
 Apply Yesterday

The office of V. E. Whitaker, super intendent of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad, was busy all morning yesterday and until late in the afternoon hiring men to take the places of the employees who walked out a week ago.
 At o'clock yesterday afternoon there were no less than 50 white men and as many negroes in the hallway of the tenth floor of the Woodward building or in the office of MT. Whit aker waiting to sign up.
 They have come from all around" said MT. Whitaker. And they have come without advertisement. If We had advertised, we would have been swamped with applicants.
 We are taking them on as fast as we can examine them and ascertain their qualifications for positions. You fcan see for yourself that it is a pretty big job.
 They are all new men, none of the employees having yet applied for posi- tions, but we are taking on new ones as fast as the necessary examinations and the like can be made"
 In an effort to relieve as far as possible the distress caused by the strike, we will accept all freight ex- cept live stock and perishables, for points, Birmingham to Lineville, in- elusive, if delivered to our freight de- pot at Eleventh street. Charges must be prepaid"
 The freight train left Birmingham at noon yesterday for Lineville stopped at Talladega and will make the run to Lineville today. There was a con siderable amount of freight aboard the train when it left Birmingham.
 Passenger train No. 22 will leave Birmingham this morning at 6:30 o'clock for Lneville. carrying mail and express matter also.
 It is announced that the companion passenger train will leave Lineville this morning for Birmingham.
 A passenger train is reported to have left Atlanta for Manchester, Ga, yes terday morning.
 Superintendent Whitaker reiterates his faith in gradual improvement in operations, the improvement to De more marked with allocation of the many new men that are being taken on daily.
 MEN STANDING PAT
 eve are standing pat and satisfied with the situation, declared N. H. Evans, engineer, who is in charge of the strike of Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad employees at the Bir- mingham end, last night.
 Movement now is up to the fed- eral government. When MT. Bugg re- fused to submit to mediation, lie threw the whole matter back into Washington. We are ready to submit to mediation. It seems the railroad is not"
 Congressman Huddleston spoke to the strikers immediately following roll call at Ben-Hur hall yesterday morning. The congressman was bitter in denouncing A. H. Woodward for his action in running an engine with the first train since the declaration of the strike.
 An executive session of the strikers was held immediately following Hud- dleston's talk Nothing of physical bearing on the strike or it's conduct de- veloped at this conference, MT. Evans declared.
 PASS RESOLUTIONS
 The Alabama Manufacturers associa- ton adopted resolutions commendins the stand taken by the receiver of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic rail- road and pledged the fullest co-opera- tion of the association in the effort of the road ito furnish service on which so many people of this state are dependent"
 The text of the resolutions follows.
 Resolved, That we commend the
 action of the receiver and officers
 of the Atlanta, Birmingham and
 Atlantic Railroad company in their
 full recognition of an obligation
 to furnish an uninterrupted serv-
 ice to the patrons of their line and
 their efforts to adjust differences
 with their employees and the ac-
 tion taken, and we further corN-
 mend the spirit on the part of the
 volunteers who have responded to
 the service of relief.
 Resolved, further, That the in-
 dustrial life of this state depends
 largely upon the services furnished
 by the transportation companies,
 and that such service cannot be
 furnished without earned revenues
 from operation.
 "Resolved, further, That it has
 been clearly shown that with the
 scale of wages as fixed through
 governmental agency are without
 recognition of the earning power
 of the railroads and only when
 such recognition is given is it
 possible for the carriers to func-
 tion.
 "Be it further resolved, That
 the fullest cooperation of this as-
 sociation be extended to the re-
 ceiver and officers of the Atlanta,
 Birmingham and Atlantic railroad
 in their effort to furnish a service
 on which many of the people or
 this State are deDendenc.