Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-19
RAILROAD NEWS
SOME STATION
AGENTS MAY GO
To Reduce Philadelphia Di-
vision Office Expenses
$4,000 Monthly

A number of stations of lesser i'm
portance on the Pennsylvania rail-
road lines east of Pittsburgh are ex-
pected to be without station agents
soon, under provisions of the re-
trenchment orders of the railroads.
This rumor appears to be of general
circulation, but thus far has not re-
ceived the confirmation of officials.
Operating expenses must be reduc-
ed to the amount of $4,000 in ticket
officers of the division, according to
a bulletin relative to the retrench-
ment policy of the Philadelphia di
vision, which has been received at
a number of offices on the division.
The division operating expenses are
to be reduced 100000 monthly, the
bulletin continues.
Thirty shopmen employed at Enola
are reported to have been laid off
yesterday under provisions of the
retrenchment policy. 1t is understood
that more are to go.
Fewer Women
The ranks of the female workers
on the Grand Central Division of
the Pennsylvania railroad are slowly
thinning since the armistice was
signed. The December statement
showed a total of 1901 female en-
ployes in all departments, in Janu-
ary there were 1,117 and the Febru-
airy report shows that the total now
is 1853. The number of male en-
ployes is correspondingly increasing
on the Central Division. In Decem-
ber there was q total of 1928, in
January drop to 1876, while this
month the nunTber mounted to 49,
514.
This month the Williamsport divi-
sion lost twenty female employees, as
compared to the number in service
last month, the Remove division lost
twenty-one, the Sunbury division
five, and the Elmira division nine
teen. The general office gained one
female employe in the past month.
The Williamsport division gained SCI
male employees this month over jan
uary, while all the other divisions
lost few in the totals. The Williams
port division now has SGT males and
800 female employees on its payrolls,
Remove 5,103 males and 435 females,
Sunbury 2,174 males and 116 females
and Elmira 2,275 males and 162
females.
There are 80 female block tele-
phone operators on the Williamsport
division and Al on the Remove divi-
sion. Williamsport has II female car
cleaners. Remove IS, Sunbury 2, and
Elmira 4. Williamsport has Z jani-
tresses, Remove and Sunbury 1.
Release Three-fourth Shopmcn
A few hours after a special COM
mite of Hollidaysburg shopmen had
left yesterday morning for Washing
ton to enter a protest against the
practical disruption of the railroad
shop organizations at the county
capital through suspensions. ITO ad-
ditional men were laid off in the
car shops at the county capital.
There had been $50 men employed
there before retrenchment began and
with the men laid off yesterday,
total of $40 have now been suspend
ed, leaving but 10, or less than 20
per cent. of the original number. AT
the engine house practically all OF
the men have been laid off. Many of
those furloughed are among the
company's oldest and best employees
and there is a strong feeling among
them that they have not been fairly
treated. The men are not dismissed
from the company's service, but un-
der the conditions existing they have
no idea how long they will be out or
and the conditions con-
fronting them are not reassurlng.
Some additional suspensions nave
been made in several OF the depart
ments of the shops in this city, al
though in no case has any depart
ment here been hit nearly as hard as
has Hollidaysburg.