Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-17
ITO RESUME SERVICE
ON |NTERURBAN LINE
Petersburg Employees Will OPP
crate Cars Over Road
to Richmond.
no BEGIN THIS AFTERNOON
.Cnrs VIII lie Carried From Here Isnrly
Today and Runs Will He Started
From the Cockade City End of tho
Line.
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= PETERSBURG. VA. Jan. TO-
With every local emrloye OF the Vir-
ginia Railway and Power Company
rat his post and trolley service here
unaffected by the strike on In Rich
mond and Portsmouth. service be-
tween this city and Richmond over
tho intcrurban line will be resumed
tomorrow afternoon. Announcement
OF this was made tonight by ]. T..
pond, superintendent OF the local di-
vision.
Local operatives will be used to
sinan the interurhan cars to be run
through to Richmond tomorrow, an
official said tonight. and little fear
lis expressed over their ability 10
make the run on schedule and in face
of the Dicketing by the Richmond
workers. who are on strike.
Start From Petersburg.
Sufficient cars for the run will be
brought TO this city carly tomorrow
:morning and the run will start from
this end Of the limo instead of from
south Richmond. as was done before
inc strike came. Two local operatives
went To Richmond tonight TO bring
sthe cars back in the morning.
special service from this city to
-Chcstcr and intermediate stops Will
dc inauEuratcd tomorrow morning.
.SnperiEtendent Pond also announced
tonight. marking the first service to
1hlS point since Sunday night. Local
operatives VIII also man these cars.
a Two hour schedule will hc main
a-iiaed and no trouble is feared Opcr-
atiFes on the local lines completed
their hrSt days work today in de-
nance of strike orders from union
headquarters in Richmond without
amy violence whatever. The cars
went into tho barns tonight ut the
usual hour. shortly before midnight.
ana ~! employees expressed their in
trhtion of returning to work in the
morning ut the usual time. Officials
Of me company are confident the men
wa continue TO stay ut their posts
despite the walkout in the other
CNiGs. and the efforts of strikers from
i~ehinoni 10 persuade them to quit.
'Ht. nevertheless are prepared to fill
ally vacancy. At the same time the
company tonight posted notice that
an employees who quit the company
wRpid have until Thursday to return
az work and hold their former SER
Nhrc rating. This. an official pointed
our, was done to warn those men
WHO might fail to report tomorrow
rarning.
Men VIII Stick to Posts
Additional rickets from Richmond
rraic here early tonight TO persuade
the. loca! carmen 10 quit, but their
cffnrts proved futile and they re-
turned to Richmond 1t was rr,mored
thai several hundred Richmond
strikers would come over tonight in
further efforts to persuade the local
men to quit. but 1T midnight none
HAD shown up. and company officials
believe the Richmond strikers are
nov convinced that the operatives
htfe intend TO remain at work.
Ihe only service maintained today
on the intcrurban line was from Pc
tersburg to Stop 81, n local run.
The cars wero operated by local
workers and the regular schedule
maintained. after the first car started
att y. NJ, two hours after the reg
niar starting time. This first trip was
dctnyed on account OF possible vio-
lcnce in the dark. This run will h..
maintained from now on. Il company
official said.
The only act OF violence in con-
motion with the strike here occurred
tonight on tho interurhan line sew
cral miles from the city when n
snowfall was thrown through the
window OF trolley by one OF several
ye9ng men IN an automobile stand
insS- alongside the track. Tho glass
VS., hrokun, but none oC the passcn-
geIS hurt; Whether the person re-
tel-uined, but the motorman did not