The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-04-13
Newly Prepared Rooms Re
ceive officers of Pennsyl
vania Railroad.
IDEAL QUARTERS FOR COMPANY
An Addition Will be Made
to the Old Freight
Rooms.
Many New improvements Have Been
Added To tic building aud More
ModernIy Equipped Offices Can Not
be Found in Marion.

Saturday was moving day at the
local Pennsylvania yards and by Mon
day morning all the freight offices
and their respective occupants VIII be
safely uuartered i'm their new home
IN the building formerly occupied by
the offices of the Marion Steam Shovel
plant.
The newly appointed Offices are the
model Improvement and posses many
advantages over the rooms In the old
freight building.
Both floors have been refurnished, a
hot water heating plant has been in
stalled and mazda electric lights viii
be employed in each room. on the
first floor large vault will assure ab-
solute protection to files, freight bills
and other company papers. A large
safe is also found among the first floor
fixtures Perfect sanitation is claimed
FOR the new quarters.
on the second floor record filing
case. large enough to hold company
files for Il period of eight years, is
found. The company is required by
law TO save such papers for that long
Il time. Records covering a period OF
seven years have already been trans
ferrcd indexed and filed i'm the new
cabinet. It is estimated that five tons
Of paper will be removed from the old
offices into the new.
The company intends to make an
to the old freight rooms and
In the near future they will he eX-
tended as far north as space will per-
nit. With the added space two de-
partments to the freight house will be
permissible. One department will he
used for receiving freight and the
other will be employed for shipments.
shelter for eight cars will be an ad-
vantage gained by the proposed en-
largemcnt Of the present building.
The following officials and employees
will occupy the new office building:
Freight and Passenger Agent, G.. NJ.
Knauer; Assistant Engineer. Petit
grow; Yard Clerk, ]. II. Forsythe; In
terchango Clerk, IT, Is. Dix; Ticket
Clerk, II. w. Hook; Chief Clerk, +. G..
McCollister; Receiving Clerk, w. *.
Heter; Rate Clerk. w. ID. Stark; SUI
pervisor, A. Benson and night man.
J. NJ, Linn. Local employees are of
the opinion that the Marion Offices
are the most modern Pennsylvania
freight offices west Of Pittsburg.
Again the Pennsylvania railroad has
the straightforward fashion
OF addressing its arguments on wages
directly To It's own men. 1t happens
that the Pennsylvania is entitled to
an Independent position. since II pays
higher wages than the average OF the
eastern district. But just for that
reason its treatment of its men de-
serves note. If a well considered prac-
tice OF a corporation to concede rela-
lively high wages Is to have the re-
suit that the unions put I on exactly
the same level with all the other en-
ployers in the same industry, the SOON
~ this last and least defenslble de-
mand of labor becomes known the
better.
Probably the answer of the men
would be that they are asking the
Pennsylvania for an increase of only
Ills per cent, whereas their demands
upon all the other eastern roads rep
resent an advance of 20.2 per cent. 1t
Il true that this does. In way, con-
stitute a recognition OF the Pennsyl-
vania's comparative liberality, but at
the same time Il brings out in striking
relief the eXorbitance of the union de-
nands. The leaders of the locomotive
engineers have not refuted the retort
o. the railroad managers that the scale
asked means an increase, for all roads
of is per cent. The men
themselves must know that any such
Increase to all employees at one time
would dislocate any industry in the
II IL be answered on their
behalf that they asked for more than
they expect to get, for the sake Of ad-
In bargaining, they have
merely prejudiced their own case.
on their own statement nothing has
intervened since the adjustment OF
1910 10 Justify an increase In the scale.
beyond what they vaguely describe as
an increase OF responsibility The
Pennsylvania address TO It's engi-
neers makes very strong prima facie
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class of It's employees has shared even
more literally than 1t could have hop
ed 10 share IN the earnings OF the
last ten or fifteen years. 1t Will take
specific arguments Of great weight to
controvert the position Of this rail-
road. and the lesson should not be lost
upon the others
Saturday was pay day for the Erie
employees AT Marion. The conventional
pay car Is not employed by the Erie
ana all local help received
their monthly check by letter today.
Second-trlclS man and wife MIR. and
Mrs. j, Hanestine have left for Lam
caster where they win spend Sunday
-. Every Woman
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