Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-05 | Page 6 | Protesting Against Rate Reduction

protesting against rate atlanta ga the recent afon ot J pope brown chairman of the georgia railroad commission to reduce the passenger rate in georgia from three to two cents per mile was protested against by the brotherhood of locomotive engineers the order ot railway conductors and unions of the blacksmiths mach fists and heleg raphers boilermakers railway train men carpenters and joiners clerks and car men these organizations em lloyed an attorney especially to rep besent them who arg d that such a would work against the prosperity of the state and lead to a le in the number of railroad as well as of their wages the travelers protective association also protested that a reduction as proposed would result in fewer trains and poorer service