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Show j STILL ABUSY BODY Engineers Conclude and Firemen and Hostlers Are Being Heard. OHK'AiiO, Uoo. 17. Tho onhircrs who hn o boon te.-jtii'yin for a week bo t'u r i' tho rmlroittl wan board of arbitral arbi-tral ion pn.tsotl i'roin thfi scono today and tho MoricH ,if tho firemen and liosttorH bcun. WitnoH.sos told of tho $'J u day oiirnod by a t.'hioHjo hostler and tho :i day ot' a Texas fireman, who na id hi "tfut most ot it hovclii! coal. ' ' Volt tic, in illicit it wns intititatcd that, tho railroads curtail thd eivio rilits of t ho in on, fium in tho pro cecdingt. Warren S. Htonc, representing thn cn-pinoers cn-pinoers at eomisel, rend into tho record the enso of .!."('. t'onkliu, a railroad employ oo of Tuesou, Ariz. 'on klin 'h friends wanted him to run for kIut-it'f, kIut-it'f, Stone mid, but ho was compelled to it luh aw w hen lio received a letter let-ter from a superior ftating that if ho desired the ottico ha must resign from the road. lie spoke of a not h or ease where a Southern Pacific engineer hud been a member of a school noard for fifteen years, but whs compelled to resign re-sign liv his employer. "That,'' said Stone, "was in the days when t he oui horn I'nei f ie curried cur-ried California around in its pocket. When tho state w rifled out the railroad rail-road concluded they didn 't waul any of their meu in tho pamo either.'' Another case was that of li. F. Cole, who aspired to the Novnda legislature, si one said. but. w as informed bv the Southern Pacific management t Fiat it was against tho rules. l. (). Martin, a fireman of CIo is, X. .M.. and omploved by the .S-intn Ke, testified that similar simi-lar pressure preveuted ono ('- M. Nichols, Nich-ols, a conductor on the road, seeking re-election to tho Texas legislature. John Itanlev ot Chicago was tho last of the engineer witnesses. Ho testified testi-fied as to conditions on suburban thus. He is actually in the cab ten hours, he said, but, by reason of rush hours, he is oa duty sixteen hours and earns $ 14 1 a month. He leaves his bed at 3 o 'clock in the morning every weekday, week-day, he snid, aud pet 3 back home around 7 o'clock at night. While he was on the stand there was quite a debate bet ween Stone and W. L. Park, vice president of the Illinois C cntral and a member of the board of arbitration. St ono stated that the I S o ut h e r n Pacific was v c ry severe in the infliction of demerit marks ngainst enginemen. Park pointed out that this road prides itself on comparative freedom free-dom from accident-, that the road last year tho wed tho best record in this respect of any of forty-two roar is in competition for the Harnman safety first prizes, and thnt the railroads had been criticised by tho interstate commerce commission on the grounds that much loss of life on railroads was I due to disregard of rule- by employee. ! Stone replied that the men merely j want a ' e 1 pi are ileal " and that, as a matter of self-preservat ion, ' safety 1 first" is the primary article in t heir Urecd. Martin, the Texas fireman, told of the experiment of the Santa Ke in putting in an assistant fireman to help one ot their big engines up a seventy- one-mile grade in Texa?. He said that j the company saved money by it, a ! the assist 'd trams wore rarely delayed. : and overtime money saved from the whole crew more than offset the wages of the assistant. |