Great Transportation Companies

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXI, Issue 5454, 24 August 1901, Page 2

Great Transportation Companies

FORBID THEIR MEN TO FREQUENT SALOONS, AND SAY, •OUR EMPLOYEES SRkhh NOT DKINK*'

The • New Voice' has just completed a poll of the great railways of the country as to their attitude regarding the use t*f intoxicants by their employees; A few years ago such a poll was taken by * The Voice,' but since then, the American Railway Association has adopted standard rules which demand total abstinence on the part of employee?. Many railways have accordingly advanced their standard, until now, fully one half of all the railways of the country demand total abstinence from all intoxicants by > employees in their operating departments whether on or off duty, A most significant fact is that of the forty nine lines of railroad, thirty absolutely forbid the frequenting of saloons, under pain of dismissal The high water mark of the demands of the Prohibition (fanatics' is that the saloon shall be .-closed by law and kept closed, without asking the slightest legislation as to what a man shall eat or drink, thus not even touching the domain of personal liberty. But here are forty nine of the great railways of the U.S., nearly all of which forbid their employees to drink, intoxicants, and thirty at once discharge men who even frequent saloons The following are the twenty companies whose rules require absolute total abstinence t

Chicago <& Eastern, Illinoif. Cincinnati', Hamilton & Dayton, Chicago & Alton, Chicago & North western. Chesapeake & Ohio* Baltimore & Ohio. Denver & Rio Grande* Delaware & Hudson. International & Great Northern. Grand Trunk Ontario & Western. .Long Island, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, New York, Chicago, & St Louis, Lehigh Valley, Pere Marquette, St Paul & SauH Sto Mario Wabash Indianapolis & Louisville, Dulutb, South Shore <fe Atlantic. Besides this, the e>ant& Fe, the Wheeling and Lake Erie, the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg, the Georgia, the New York Central declare that they will not employ a man who drinka if they know it.