The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-07-28
TRAIN SERVICE
SHOT TO PIECES
Owing to Shopmen's Strike Running
Schedule Over the Hill Undergoes
Material Change.

AAAc ioiii oau sHopAicH SlTlhe mas
undergone no particular change dur
ing the past week. Many men are out
Shops are running with small forces
and railroad operation is being SER
iously crippled. Efforts are being
made In government circles to reach
some understanding and adjustment
between employers and employees and
there is some prospect that the
trouble may be adjudicated soon and
the strike settled. In the meantime
employees are losing hundreds of
thousands of dollars in wages every
day, the railroads are suffering heavy
losses, and the general public, that is
always made the goat when differ
ences arise between capital and la
Dor, is undergoing great inconven-
ience, and in some portions of the
country great losses from the disor-
ganization of business
Locally the strike has at last been
felt. The round house crew for time
declined to go out, but during the past
week the information reaches this Of
flee that several Of the members have
knocked off for a vacation.
The railroads have found it neces-
sary to cancel many trains. This is
especially the case on short runs. The
railroads are large gamers in this re-
spect, for the auto trucks and auto
passenger service in many places has
so cut into the receipts of the rail-
roads that those short runs have be-
come losing proposition for the rail-
roads, and the strike is a good opor-
tunity to curtail this expense. Cancel
ling trains hits the railroad employees
for every train taken off means the
elimination of crew. In many in
stances, owing to the short distance
haul competition with the motor ve-
hicles, the trains now abandoned will
never be resumed, and the railroads
cannot be blamed for that.
One Of the developments of the past
week of local nature was the taking
off of the tri-weekly passenger SER
vice between Oroville ;.Md-Marcus and
substituting two mixed trains week.
These trains leave Oroville on Sun
days and Thursdays at 8 p. m. They
run only as far as Curlew, reaching
that place at 3 a. M. Mondays and
Fridays. Leaving Curlew Mondays
and Fridays at p. m, and arriving
at Oroville at $50 a. m. Tuesdays and
Saturdays This is night run in both
directions. freight with a passenger
coach. This means the discrimination
of train 295 and an entire change of
schedule all along the line. AS the
passenger train over the hill to the
eastward has not paid enough to oil
the wheels for some years it may be
never be resumed. 1t has been further
intimated, whether backed by any
authority we know not, that it is pos
sible, If the strike continues that the
service over the Oroville-Wenatchee
branch will be reduced to three trains
Ia week.
Another disconcerting order was
received by the local agent during the
week, an order covering the entire
railroad system, and that is that no
perishable freight would be received
for transportation only at owners
risk, the railroad taking no chances
of being unable to deliver and thus
be held responsible for damages. In
some localities this is going to work
great hardship, and should the
strike continue until the apple crop
is ready to move, which is hardly
possible. would do incalculable dam
age to the growers.
The local mails, arriving over the
Oroville- e-Okanogan branch, do not
arrive until too late in the evening to
be distributed, and thus the commu-
nifty is cut out of mail until late the
next morning. The towns along the
road between Oroville and Curlew have
no mail service under present ar
rangement, and information reaches
this office that the department is en-
deavoring to make contracts for auto
service for those postofifccs. If this
arrangement goes into effect it will
practically be return to the old
star route service.