Show CUTTING THEM OFF SHORT southern pacific Yi eing the axe conductors given their walking papers in abbreviated communications icat ions tho spotter deal fear aud consternation pervade the ahnke of the conductors of the southern pacific on every division jines old and tried men who have been in the employ of the company for yeara and yeara are receiving abort simply stating that their services will be no longer required A number on the salt lake division have thus left the employ of the company during the last year and many more are doubtful of their tenure in office the older the man in the service the more likely apparently is hie prospect of removal and their heads may go at any minute the reasons tor removal in the a on the salt lake division were not given and the men thus cut off have only their own minds to search for the causes thereof some of them have records of most conscientious for their employers pl interests and their standing was high on the records following up the removals on this end of the road comes the announcement that four of the oldest and most experienced men passenger conductors on the los angeles division divi eion were removed a few days ago and the ff celing is gen bial now that the end cometh when no man knowels kno welb further the report of the san francisco call of the removal of the conductors on the loa angeles division saye while the officials of the operating department are preserving a propound und secrecy on the causes that prompted the I 1 slaughter the causes do not constitute so much of a mystery as the victims might like to have appear j it ie learned that their discharge was due solely to the act that the Mat ional surety company withdrew from their bonds and ahta fact carriee with it a pre of fact easily surmised those tu with the laffaira of the operating 0 the company or with the system of bonding conductors ois that went into vogue something in the neighborhood of ago it ie well known has every employed of the company who in abo regular course 0 hie bandler the com banys funds has to give a bond to in eure the honest performance oi hie duties to expedite such a wholesale bonding bufi nesa the company effected a deal with the national surety company whereby the latter furnishes bonds for every employed whose position requires him to give a bond the annual premiums on which have to be paid by the employed emp loyes bonded for many years the pasee neer conductors were exempt from this obligation and its accompanying expense but two a they were all required to put iii applications for bonds ia the company named was a move on the part of ho company for it not only insures it against speculations but relieves it 0 the necessity of keeping a watch of its conductors which in itself iea source of expense and annoyance with the bonding of the conductors was inaugurated a new system of keeping tab on those employed emp loyes who handle the money spotters are regularly employed by the surety company and when a bonded employed is caught out the surety company simply serves notice on the railroad company that the bond of the particular employed has ben canceled the railroad company then has no alternative but to discharge the employed actions met with the disapproval of the durity company this was the case with the four conductors discharged from the los angeles division what constitute their particular offenses offe nees ie not made known the men were simply dropped from the com banys payroll without ceremony cei emony and this arant cf ceremony is what so greatly disturbs the conductors it is understood that several of those discharged from this salt lake division and also those discharged from he loa angeles division contend that their removal was gunj abt and based merely on suspicion they want the opportunity to defend theme elvea at an open investigation and it is said that a eri evanco committee of the order of railway trainmen will wait on manager fillmore within a few days and aek for a hearing or the discharged employee |