RAILROAD EMPLOYEES OPPOSED TO SUNDAY LAWS.
A report from the Toronto Mail and Empire, bearing date of March 28, shows that the claims of the promoters of Sunday legislation in Canada are not correct in stating that the proposed legislation is in the interests of employees protecting them from Sunday labor, as the following will demonstrate:15Among the lodges heard from are those at London, St. Thomas (representing the G. P. R., Grand Trunk, Michigan Central and Wabash), London, Ottawa, Windsor, and Lindsay. Toronto Junction Lodge, of the Order of Railway Conductors, sends a particularly strong resolution, setting forth that the bill is "arbitrary," that it interferes with the management of their own affairs by the railways, and that it will decrease the earning powers of the employees, while increasing the risk of life in handling the accumulation after Sundays. It is further set forth that tying up traffic on Sundays at frontier points will cause diversion to American roads from the Canadian lines. This resolution, sent by a Conductors' Lodge, will be especially interesting to those who have heard the arguments that Sunday traffic is a menace to life and safety.