The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-08-26
MAKE DRASTIC CUT
II Is Stated That $500 Hartman
Employees Will Be Laid OF
Next Month

canss the Hartman railroads have MADE
no money for the last 10 montns, a
general order for r~etrenchment mas
gone out and tomorrow the Union Pa
cihc railroad will lay off $500 employees,
reaching from one end of the system
to the other and affecting every depart
ment Of the road, with the exception OF
the operating force. No trains have
been ordered discontinued and prob
ably will not be. according to officials
Of the road. The order for the cut
comes from the general managers Of
fee, where it is understood similar
orders will bs at once issued by the
other Hartman railroads.
S. p. To Lay off 5000
San Francisco. Aug. 2l-rwo thous-
aud employees on the Pacific system Of
the Southern Pacific will be laid of this
week. By the end of September 5000
employees will probably have been laid
off in the maintenance, motive power.
construction and operating departments
of the Pacific system.
AL seven lines Of the Hartman sys
tenn are included in the order to reduce
forces issued from the office of Julius
Kruttschnitt, vics-president and d.
rector of maintenance and operation on
the Hartman system.
The Southern Pacific shops began
operating yesterday on the eight-hour'
day, fve-days.a.week basis, the order
for which was issued Saturday. BY the
agreements which the Southern Pacific
has with the various crafts it must.
when pursuing a retrenchment policy
first reduce the working hours, then
the working days before it can reduce
its force.
Slack freight traffic conditions are
given as the cause of the ~retrenchment.
Short wheat and corn crops Throughout
the Pacific Northwest and the Middle
West States have tied up an unusually
heavy number of cars for this period OF
the year. Reports show 165. sos idl,
cars in July.
IL was stated yesterday from the
general offices Of the Southern Pacific
in the Flood building that freight traf-
&c conditions are expected to improve
materially in October. when the EN-.
ployes who have been laid off will b,
taken back in the order of Their
seniority.
At the present time, it was explained,
the ratio between the gross revenues
and the operating expenses is "a per
cent. which means that for Zach dollar
taken in GA cents is spent for labor.
By reduci g hours and forces this ratio
will be decreased to about 60 per cent.
From the Chicago office of Julius
Kruttschnitt, Vice President aud Di-
rector of Maintenance and Operation
OF the Hartman system, comes the az
nouncement that the order of retrench.
ment was made necessary by slack
freight conditions, short crops in the
Northwest. a falling off in fruit ship
ments from California having left 165,
sos freight cars idle.
Other Roads Run as Usual
A press dispatch from New York i:
to the effect that the layoff of employees
by the Hartman system is not beine
met by similar retrenchment in other
Western roads. according to informa
tion given oat at the New York Office,
of the Northern Pacific, Atchison and
Rock Island roads.
1t was also said in Wall Street tina,
the retrenchment plan might mean q
warning to the employees who are muir,
muring strike. Of which there has beer
considerable indefinite talk among the
shopmen of the Hartman lines, Rocl
Island and Illinois Central.
Two Companies Annual Statements
The Union Pacific and Southern Pa
ciic systems have issued their prelimi
nary annual reports for the year ended
June 80. 1911. The figures of the former
show a decrease in gross earnings OF
$l,244, 1884, and an increase in operating
expenses of 50, 066. $40. notwithstanding
the efforts that have been made to keer
them down. Compared with 1909 the
expense item lis up $l2. 754, 22O. The
surplus last year was equal to 16. Ga pei
cent on the $2l6. 645, 200 outstanding
common stock. as compared with 10.
per cent earned last year.
The Southern Pacific reports a de.
crease in gross earnings for the past
year OF 80. 400, 06s. and an increase in
expenses of 81. 071, 1889. Compared with
1909, operating expenses are up So.
27l,lS6. Last year the surplus was
equal to 9.43 per cent on the sara, 672,.
400 outstanding common stock as com.
narad with 10 mar oanf aa.und - -