Show the life of a railway conductor is acde very unpleasant by spotters who are employed by the railway companies A grievance committee of the brotherhood of railroad conductors is m st jious meeting with the officials of the gould system and they together are trying to adjust matters eo that conductors will nut be so much at the mercy of the spies byway of illustrating the position a conductor as sometimes placed in we will quote the words of a member of this grievance committee no conductor he sayf objects to being watched if it is doneen a fair manner and a fair hearing is given him before he Is discharged for dishonest but iho present spy system is abominable the spotters do not work to discover whether a man is honest but their sole object is to make a case against him to illustrate aman boarded a train at a way station and when asked for his ticket ho said after a long search that he was unable to find it and had no money to pay his fare the conductor was about to put him off when he made a piteous appeal saying that his wife was dying and he was to her bedside the conductor yielded and at the end of the week was discharged the grief stricken husband was a spotter such cases as these we guard against but it is false reports that we fear it is very easy for a spotter to ruin a man and of course if he can find nothing to report bo will make false charges or else lose their position the force of this statement will be realized here in utah where conductors of many years service were so shabbily treated by the union pacific company with all the wicked charges brought against them by the measly spies nothing further has been done than discharge the conductors duc tors accused of embezzlement l aftring was granted them and it was some before notification of their discharge was received this is a wrong practice and does the conductors and injustice they should have more rights granted and be protected against the unscrupulous reports of spotters |