The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-20
REGULAR SERVICE
RESUMED At $50
SUNDAY Morning
Thirty-Seven Firemen Quit
at Hugo in Protest of
Certain Employees and
Other Conditions.
ALL QUIET ON THE
RINGLING ROAD NOW
Postal Officials and Express
Agents on Point of Appeal
When Strike Settled.

The Frisco passenger train scheduled
10 leave here this morning at $3.50
O'Clock will depart on time and all other
traffic on the A. & A. division of the
system which was paralyzed Saturday
morning when 81 firemen walked out
al Hugo will be resumed today follow.
Ing an agreement reached b. officials
OF the road and union leaders who were
IN conference in Hugo Saturday after
noon, agent +. !. Sorrels said late last
night
While the exact transactions at the
meeting We're not disclosed announce.
ment was made to the effect that agree
Hent had been reached and TEN.
porarily at least. schedules on pas.
sengers and freight trains will be car.
rled out
All passenger and freight traffic in
and out OF Hugo on the Ardmore and
Hope, Ark. division of the Frisco was
stopped at an early hour Saturday
when the firemen refused TO operate
In the yards until services of certain
employees there was discontinued. Henry
Biard, president OF the Firemen's Union
In a statement Saturday declared that
certain acts OF men employed In the
yard there threatened the safety OF
trainruen working in and out Of the
terminal. He charged that one EN-.
Dloye hud been found in a drunken con
dition and that until such conditions
We're remedied the flremcn's local would
refuse TO work
Bad Equipment Charge.
WaiR-out OF the men Saturday mark.
ed the elimination of rather heated
night that has been waeed on the A.
q A. division OF the Frisco b. engineers
ana firemen for two weeks over alleged
had equipment they have been forced
10 use since the shopmen walked out
On July |. The men charged that
several engines now in use over the
Ardmore-Hope division are unfi, for
service until overhauled.
Local postal officials and freight and
express agencies We're on the verge OF
making an appeal for aid at the time
word reached here that the tleup had
ended. Mail was being routed north
and south out OF Ardmore for Madill
Durant, and Hugo Saturday. No freight
thilments for points east OF here were
received at the local Frisco office Sat
urday. With the announcement that
passenger traffic had been allevlnted
freight officials here believe that the
freight shipments viii be resumed on
Monday.
Frisco officials here declared Satur.
oay night that no further difficulty is
expected from the firemen's quarters
ss Hugo headquarters indicated that
The strikebreakcrs had been removed.
Quiet ON Ringing.
Nothing new has developed in the
local strike situation Ms II affects the
employees or the Ringing railroad who
walked out Of the local shops last Mon.
day. and member Of the shop force
who was at labor hall. Saturday stated
That the matter at present was up to
the owners and b. NJ. Jewell, head OF
the shop crafts. According to his state.
inent the men would not 40 back TO
work until ordered to do so by MIR.
Jewell as the matter was entirely sub.
Jeot to his orders. The men expect to
have u meeting with Mr.. Ringing who
is In the city. but so fur no conference
has been held with the owner Of the
road