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AAILWAY STRIKE TIES 0P
LL TIHET OFFGE HE
at the Terminal were walking out,
were compelled to leave Lheir bag
-Buge, n wany instances, and practi
~ally all of them boarded the’train
without tickets. The experienced trav
eiers took tne whole matter gdod
raiuredly and went about the busi
ness of serving themselves as best
they could, meanwhile aiding their
less experienced fellow travelers in
finding trains and getting aboard. One
of them, a traveling salesman, dubbed
the new style of travel ‘cafeteria
transportation.”
Baggage in Piles.
The Atlanta Cab and Baggase Com
pany. immediately after the walkout,
posted a sign stating that because of
the strike it would not be responsible
for prompt delivery of baggage for
which checks were left with them.
The incoming and outgoing baggagze
was being piled up and jumbled to
gether around the baggage room and
on the baggage platforms, many
trunks being without checks. The
untangling of this jumble will consti
tute a problem even after the strike is
settled.
Representatives of the several rail
road brotherhcods who conferred with
the Brother of Railroad Clerks’ strike
committee refused Thursday to dis
cuss whether a general walkout of
other crafts would result. It was in
timated, however, that serious trouble
would result in the members of other
unions were asked to perform any of
the work previously handled by the
striking clerks. i
Mass Meeting Called.
A mass meeting of the strikers and
other members of the three lodges of
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
will be held Thursday night at the
Red Men's Wigwam, when it is be
lieved that a general strike vote will
be taken so call out all members of
the brotherhood who are still working
in the various freight and general of
fices in Atlanta. The probahility of
such a general strike appeared cer
tain Thursday afternoon.
The strike has been marked by the
utter absence of disorder and by its
practical ynanimity, The strikers who
gathered Thursday at the Red Men's
Wigwam were cheerful and appeared
Eanpyv at the prospect of a slight let
n from their arduous duties. All were
confident of their ability to win the
<'rike and predicted an early and suc
esslul conclusion,
Danger Is Great.
The effect of a general walkout of
1 remalning clerks wouid be ap
+ ling, it was Thursday pointed out
By railroad men. The resiuit of such
a on would not only br.ng about a
comulete suspension of all freight
novoment in and out of Atlanta and
serionsly hamper movement of pas
Condensed Report of the Condition of
' Atlanta, Ga.
At the close of business, March 4, 1919, called for by the Comp
troller of the Currency
RESOURCES LIABILITIES
Loans and Discounts. .$11,133,708.51 Eapitel ... ..$ 1,000,000.00
U. S. Bonds and Cer- Surplus apd Net
tificates .. ... ....... 2,811.200.00 Erobts ~ ...../ ... 120440828
Customers’ Liability Ciminiation . ...0. .., .7 70000000
Acct. Acceptances . . 67,000.00 Pivniends ... ... .. 180.00
Real Estate ......... 50,000.00 Atcoptanees ......... 67,000.00
Stocks and Bonds .. .. 359,500.00 Re-Digcounts. . ... .. 491,757.20
Vaults and Fixtures . . 25,000.00 Bills Payable ........ '1,475,000.00
(‘ash in Vault and with Deposits ............. 14,683,840.72
Banks . ............ BSi5 25300
$19,792,262.20 $19,792.262.20
OFFICERS:
Frank Hawkins, President.
Thomas C. Erwin, Vice Pres. A. M. Bergstrom, Cashier.
; W. B. Symmers, Asst. Cashier
. . B, Vlcd T A. J. Hansell, Asst. Cashier
John W. Grant, Vice Pres. W. V. Crowley, Asst. Cashier
J. N. Goddard, Vice Pres. Jno. E. Wallace, Auditor
W. H Fitzpatrick, Mgr. Savings Dept.
DIRECTORS:
ROBT, . ALSTON, Aftorney J.'N. GODDARD, Mgr. Conklin Tin Plate
W. W. BANKS, Vice President & Metal Co.
A, M. BERGSTROM, Cashier. :";“:,?N,',",\',']’."“(',‘"N'\" l’(rw!"n'
DR. ¥. PHINIZY CALHOUN, Capitalist eo, G g D
M .l"4 COLE, Pres. Newnan Cotton Mills, ,\Lfill\‘l‘l4|4'?||,;:&;{"\‘»\l-T'I;::"Ln "\i\||;|,:,;' 1;,b\;.:.,,( (’Y“
Newnan, Ga HENRY W. MILLER, Vice Pres. Southern
MILTON DARGAN, Mgr, Southern Dept., Railway Co.
Royal Ins. Co H. Y. M’CORD, Pres. McCord-Stewart Co
THOS. . ERWIN, Vice President WINSHIP NUNNALLY, the Nunnally Co,
JOHN W, GRANT, Capitalist J. CARROLL PAYNE, Attorney.
of Atlanta ;
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
senger trains, but would seriously af
fect the entire operation of the rail
roads in every wuy. There would be
no pay rolls made up, no reports from
station agents checked, no freight,
biits made out, no local expense bills
written, and, in fact, the entire cleri
cal fabric of ihe various systems
would tumble down. With a continu
ation of such a strike for any lengthy
period of time, congestion would be
come S 0 great as to halt even the pas
senger traffic,
“Vith the developments Thursday in
Atlanta before them, officials at
Washington and Nashville are ex
pected to speed action for the settle
ment of the controversy.
“Ottarson Must Go.”
The strikers have nailed to the
masthead of their Battleship Strike
the slogan, “Ottarson must go!" and
are determined to see it through. De
claring they have proof of the viola
tion of the spirit and letter of the
Railway Administration’s general or
ders by Federal Auditor Ottarson, of
ficials of the brotherhooed do not be
lieve that Director General Hines will
hesitate to comply with their de
mands. With the situation in At
lanta and other cities made acute by
the tightening of the strike lines, ac
tion before night is predicted by some
local railway officials.
The opinion was widely ventured
Thursday that the general strike may
presage the beginning of a fight to the
finish between the roads that were
formerly bitterly anti-union in their
policies and the varions unions wn?
brotherhoods which have sprucg up
and grown strong during the war.
There was an air of seriousness and
of firm determination manifest Wed
nesday night, both at the executive
session of the Atlanta Federation of
Trades and the mass meeting in the
Red Men's Wigwam of the member
ship of the three lodges of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Clerks when the
subjeet was broached. Many expres
sions were made in bhoth meetings of
regret that the possibility of grave
consequences lay in the seeming in
ability of the Railroad Administra
tion at Washington to enforce its la
bor policies on-the Southern roads,
i Leaders Worried.
The best posted men ameng the la
bor movement said that they had
thought the great industrial crisis
which came to a head and was sue
cessfully passed for a time at the be
2inning of the war, had been, through
the new lahor policies of the national
Government, overcome for all time.
Developments in railways, telegraphs
and telephone under Government con
trol, however, especially in the South,
has been causing them grave concern,
The absence from the country of
President Wilson lends uncertainty to
the situation. Apparently neither his
counsel nor his good offices are ob
tainable until an industrial situation
reaches the most acute stage.
That the strike of the railway
clerks on the systems thus far affect
ed can not be confined to these sys
tems, nor even to the single brother
hood, an officer of one of the Big
Four intimated Thursday morning.
The grievance which led the railway
clerks on the N. C. and St. L. to strike
is, he declared, the same grievance
that practically every craft on South
ern roads has nursed for some time,
in spite of “Board Number Three and
existing agencies.” Unless the rail
way clerks are speedily granted re
lief from the campaign of intimida
tion to which they have been sub
jected, this officer declared, nothing
can prevent the strike from spread
ing first to the clerks employed by
all Southern roads and then to the
Big Four brotherhoods.
Want Ottarson Out.
The removal of A. P, Ottarson, Fed
eral auditor of the three roads affect
ed, appears to be essential to the ad
justment of the strike. Board Num
ber Three nor any other agency could;
act quickly enough to save the or
ganization of the clerks and the strike
was the oniy defensive weuapon at
ltheil' hands, the strikers dec.are.
. “Mr. Mapother put Ottarson in, and
we demand that he put Ottarson
out,” said E. M. McGhee, local chair
man of the Stone Mountain Lodge.
The brotherhood charges that Ot
tarson assumed the task, for the for
mer railroad executives of those sys
tems most bitterly opposed to organ
ization of their employees, of destroy
ing in short order, with governmental
instrumentalities, not only the clerks'
organization, but other labor organi
zations on the systems under his ju
risdiction.
“This is the Lexington of the War
after the War,” said another officer
of one of the railway brotherhoods
not yet involved.
Dissatisfied at Delays.
Sharp dissatisfaction with delays
in adjustment of their differences, the
seeming desire of officials of the di
vision of labor in the Railroad Ad
ministration to believe that officers of
the union magnify the unrest among
the employees and that the employees
will not remain loyal to the union, is
given as one of the main reasons for
the strike.
“If those fellows in Washington
could realize that it is all we can do
to keep the membership from rising
up and throwing out their officers be
cause of their failure to obtain relief
from unbearable conditions,” said
McGhee, “they would pay a great deal
more of attention to those officers and
there would be fewer strikes.”
As a result of the present and im
pending strikes, it was reported
Thursday that the United States Rail
road Administration wiil be asked to
establish a Southern regional branch
of the division of labor in Atlanta for
the purpose of handling more speed
ily the difficulties that have arizen or
which threaten to rise in this region.
Old Fight Echoes.
The railway brotherhoods charge
that the labor policies of the South
ern region are being dominated by
executives of one of the roads which,
before Federal control became effect
ive, refused to emplov union men in
any capacity where they were aware
of such affiliation.
Dispatches from Washington Wed-
A Clean Newspaper for Southerrc Homes
nesday that the national officers of
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
had declared the strike illegal were
received with skepticism by the local
strike committee. It was learned
Thursday that a number of grand
lodge ctlicers of the brotherhood had
gone to Nashville to assume charge
of the strike, and it was stated that
when these officers have been given
assurances that lederal Auditor Ot
tarson will he removed the strike will
be ended.
Freight Held Ug.
The general situation Thursday re
mained unchanged. Freight traflic on
the three systems was completely
paralyzed and passenger traffic was
‘hampered to some extent. Perishable
‘fmi!fllt was being handled in person|
by officials of the road and some
tickets were being sold by the same
officials |
Complications feared to be immi-|
nent as a result of the refusal of the
clerks employed on other systems to
handle any diverted freight or aid the
N, C. & St. L. Railway in any man
ner, did not develop up to Thursday
morning. At a meeting held in the
Wigwam Wednesday night the sup
port of the clerks on other systems
again was pledged to the strikers.
Whether or not the remaining clerks
will walk out in sympathy will be
decided at another meeting Thursday
night, it was believed.
Local strike leaders were in con
stant touch by wire Thursday with
head o?icers of the brotherhood in
Nashville. There was some hope that
an adjustment would be reached there
before night on the part of those who
believe Director General Hines will
take action,
. .
Brenau Girls’ Smiles
Work Wonders
| Ambng the passengers affected by the
baggage and ticket men’'s” strike were
50 girl students from Brenau, at Gaines-
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guitars and ukeleles, had been checked,
but there was no one to find it or have
it transferred. Finally, some of thv,#!rll
smiled so sweetly that a busy official
couldn't® resist openrng the baggage
room. The missing baggage, found, was
carried triumphantly into the train for
Macon just on the nick of time.
Mediator to Confer
At Nashville
(By International News Service.)
NASHVILLE, TENN., March 13.—
Mediator A. M. Banks, of the Railwvay
Administration, arrived here today
and will probably go in conference
somestime this afternoon with offi
cinls of the Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks,
A matter has come up regarding the
requast from brotherhood men on the
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