. Electric railway journal . he Amalgamated Associa-tion of Street Electric Railway Em-ployees of America, has appealed forthe exercise of good judgment andsound reason and the fulfillment oftheir promises during these times ofoutlaw strikes and general Mahons letter is as follows: I take this means of appealing to youto ask tliat you be not misled by thepresent agitation for a general or sympa-thetic strike. This is the hour when good, sound judg-ment and good reason must prevail. Youhave contracts that have been establishedafter years of hard and patient labor by theofficers
. Electric railway journal . he Amalgamated Associa-tion of Street Electric Railway Em-ployees of America, has appealed forthe exercise of good judgment andsound reason and the fulfillment oftheir promises during these times ofoutlaw strikes and general Mahons letter is as follows: I take this means of appealing to youto ask tliat you be not misled by thepresent agitation for a general or sympa-thetic strike. This is the hour when good, sound judg-ment and good reason must prevail. Youhave contracts that have been establishedafter years of hard and patient labor by theofficers of your association, and these con-ditions must not be foolishly cast aside orlost by follovifing false promises from irre-sponsible persons who know nothing of vourconditions. I therefore appeal to you to remain loyalto your contracts, uphold the laws of yourassociation and be in a position to marchforward m the future as you have been inthe past, securing better positions and up-holding the true standard of American labor. Carhouse Destroyed in Ohio.—The car-house and eleven cars of the Dayton &Troy Electric Railway, Tippecanoe City,Ohio, were destroyed by fire on April14. The loss was placed unofficially at$150,000. Non-Union Employees Insured.—The British Columbia Electric Railway, Ltd.,Victoria, B. C, has insured all its maleoffice employees who have been a yearin the service and who are eighteenyears of age or more. The amount ofthe benefit is $1,000. The insurancedoes not cover any one who is a mem-ber of a railway, light and power or gasunion. Coinage of 8 and 7-Cent Pieces.—A bill has been introduced in the UnitedStates Senate by Senator Frelinghuy-sen of New Jersey, directing the coin-age of 7-cent pieces and 8-cent of the arguments which has beenused in favor of the production of suchcoin is that they will simplify the pay-ment of railway fares in these denom-inations. Jim Crow Law Upheld.—The SupremeCourt of the United States on April 19sustained
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