The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-03
PRUNING KNIFE
 ENTERS DEEPER.
New Haven Road Discharges
 Another Batch of Workers :. All Along System
STATION HANDS DROPPED
B Bremen on Division Hose Places and IS Engineers Are Set
 Back

~
 New Haven, April s---Continued evi-
 dence of the retrenchn1ent- policy of
 the New Haven road came to light
 yesterday when further Jcurtailment
 of the number of worknlen in the en- pIoy of the road became. known: As nearly as could be ascertained- the
 New Haven is looping off every piece of. expense that is deemed sdispensabIe
 all over its system. This will affeet- of employees and while the
 figures could not be arrived at-:ft was
 gathered that at least 500 employees have. already been affected by the
 new order. t1Trl =:ez ea
 In 1. the general cut down on the New Haven one of the first men dis
 missed yesterday was Michael Ho-.
 gan, the we'll known porter at the Union station who for the past 30
 years has been engaged in ferrying
 the wealth scooped in at the station
 to the Yellow building from day to
 day. Now it's supposed that the ticket
 agents will have to take it up to the
 Yellow building themselves. = Hogan
 was one of the best known personal
 ities at the station. Another man who was made to walk the plank of retrenchment yesterday. was John J. Connolly, for years the assistant day train caller at the station.f The mul- titudinous duties of this office here after will fall upon Lester G. Phillips, | tht head announcer. Connolly will be sent to platform work. it was said In the tran service, IS more freight brakemen and conductors Were laid off. yesterday, making 65 in all since economy set in. These changes are Ton the Shore Line division sonly.e l Other cuts are expected today. The freight business is SO light on the road, it is said that lot more of
 men can be laid off without missing them.
 Thus far no telegraph men or boil l CT makers have been discharged. They may be, however. And the boiler makers have not yet been reduced. as their services are continually need ed. But in other lines of work on this division it was stated that g firemen had been laid off and about l. 5engineers set back to the firemen's S running board. ~v.. Ieg ..@ | It was also stated. that a number of clerks had been eliminated in the
 Yellow building and that all extra hands in station work along the Shore Line division had been dismiss ed, in consequence of the instructions to the various division superinten- dents to lop off all expenses where possible.
 In the car department 10 men were discharged last Saturday.. This de- partment is now running on eight hour schedule and in the machinery department the men are looking daily to see their nine hour day cut to eight hours.
 s The cuts of the various branches of the system at the different sta tions cover baggagemen and check ingS clerks. The station agents will now have to do all of this work There were about fifty in the North
 ampton road alone who were thus dis posed of. There are more on the Shore Line division. While this cutting of men off the road was on here the Order of Rail- way Clerks of the system was in ses- sion here yesterday. at which was present National Vice President J. J. Forester and R. G. Stearns of Bos- ton, the general chairman of the or
 der on the New Haven system. It is declared. however, that they handled only routine business and had no idea tof taking up anything looking to an l advance; in wages at the present time.