The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1914-04-10
Decrease in Traffic Rea-
son For Lay-oH Of
Employees
INCREASE NOT YET IN SIGHT
GENERAL MGR. OF ERIE ROAD
SAYS PLANS FOL DISMISSAL
OF MEN CONSIDERED

NEW YORK. April 2.-OhiciAls OF
railroads having headquarters in New
York denis~i yesterday that the Eastern
railroads arr conducting campaign i'm
the newspapers for the purIs,-r of aecele-
rating an increA-e in rates 10y the Inter
stats Commerce Commission
The suglc-tion was made 10y Clifford
rhorne. chairman of the Iowa state Rail
road Commission on Saturday. Itbrought
forth stats'rnents from Samuel Rliea. pr,--
ident of tile P-nn-ylvania: A. T. Hardin.
vicr President and general manager in
charge of operation of tle New York
Central and A. }. Stone. general man
agc.r oi the Erie
The rrir has lai,l otr Il. .so men SINCE
ilssemlsr. said Mr. stone. and We
arr trying Ia So, how w. can make iurth
er Entertainments. More than Is.sp
men have lsen lail 81 -inc, last summer.
MI the Erir repair shops are running on
hall time. owing a. the ,l.~.reA-.. in traffic.
No INCREASE OF SPRING FORCE
1t is customary u tkar ON a large
number of men in the spring hrt the.
will not ls ernployei tins spring which
will result ln = conditions probably more
n"ticeable than the dismissal of regular
elnploy,-.
The Erie is ss-sntially "A freight lins
AMI the c"innruting service affords slight
opportunity for the economie. that must
be efiectssi' -
How did Il happen that sever, prom
inent railroad officials insued ststsrusns.
sn shs subjsrt Of necsssary rssrsnchmsus
On Ne sefne days- Mr. eeDus n, 49,. !.
Beesnse the newspaper sought che
opinions OF she railroad men," he said.
The situation from the railroad view
po'p,, 10 bsd and .sssdily growing -,or~,
hut the railroads. 10 far A. know, and
certainly the Erie have made no effort Ia
obtain hearing in the newspapers. We
have told the situation when asked for A.
that H. all "
6rn"ral manager Stone aided that
plans f"r the dismissal of more employ.-
we're ieing considered and that the cut.
~ S'"n ~ II could be planne.i, might in
clusie the clerical force and minor official.
Since Sept nnler the the New York
Central lines have laid off - ,Uo men,
said ce-Pre-ident Hardin of that com
Pany. This action has had nothing
Whatever u do with the rate QUESTION.
but was ioro-d by the general depression
In the rail roaI l,,,-;,. M
100" fewer employe- than We had in
March 1913. Unless busine-~ fall. of
further. We io not expect H. lay of any
more men I"
Al the Office of the President Of th.
Dela~are. iackAwsnna aud Western IL
Wa said that Mr.. Trus--lAle hal mo- state
rnent u make.
ia inrtherance Of the policy of retrench
meat instituted by the Penn-ylvania -om.
time ago, seventy -Iour trains have been
eliminated on that system. aocor,Iing 70
the new time table-. which ~ into eff.rt
t~iay- OF these sixty two are train
~hich have lsvn in service On the divi--
ION east Of Pittsburgh.
~" Nfbon WIN TIE Reduction Of
tram service on the Penn-ylysnia. Prs--
isient Rhea said:
The deci-iOn n reSlnce train s-.rvioe
and tie working forces Of the Prna-xi-
vanis -y-t~m, while apparently sudden.
should not t'e considers. surprising. a.
the Published monthly statements Of the
system have shown the l1rgr decrea.e in
net operating income the system has an
tsine,i.
A'gh Ways extra crew and other en-
Irn-r itrns cau-sd the-s decreass-. which
are not peculiar 10 the Pennsylvania Rail
road- Thee can-s- skill exist, and in al
dit'on tbe gro-- revenues of the system
have isen steadily decreasing since last
Ovtol,~r"