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Show TIN SERVICE MEM 10 BECURTAILED Director General McAdoo to Issue Orders Soon Upon Recommendations of Traffic Officers. CONGRESS TO HEAR PRESIDENT TODAY Government Operation of Express Companies Under Consideration ; Legal Advisers' Opinions. . 1 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. Hundreds of passenger trains on railroads east of the Mississippi will be withdrawn from service ser-vice under orders soon to be Issued by Director General McAdoo, based upon recommendations made today by a committee com-mittee of eastern passenger traffic officers. offi-cers. The committee was divided as to the advisability of withdrawing most parlor par-lor and sleeping cars, leaving only those considered most necessary for important travel routes. Hours of labor of railroad employees under government operation was discussed dis-cussed by the director general with heads of the four railway brotherhoods, and the question of wages will be taken up tomorrow. to-morrow. Tomorrow President Wilson goes before be-fore congress with recommendation for legislation providing a basis for compensating com-pensating railroads under government operation and for continued financing with government assistance. Bills approved ap-proved by the railroad administration will be introduced immediately, and indications indica-tions are that they will be rushed, to speedy passage. Will Not Be Sweeping. With regard to passenger train reductions, reduc-tions, it was made plain today that there is no intention of interfering with commuter com-muter or interurban traffic or with any other trains necessary for daily and regular regu-lar travel. Some of the director general's advisers have urged that practically all parlor and sleeping cars be withdrawn from service and that people be required to travel largely in daytime in ordinary coaches. Tt is not considered probable, however, that Mr. McAdoo will approve such a drastic course at this time. The railroad brotherhood leaders spent nearly three hours with the director general, gen-eral, moat of the time being devoted to discussing the possibility that Ihe government gov-ernment may tall on railway employees to work much overtime In order to clear present freight congestion. Extra Wages. This would involve extra wages, which the railroad administration Is said to be willing to pay pn the basts of "time and a half," now maintained by the railroads for overtime. The brotherhoods' demands for 40 per cent higher wages, refused by the railroads rail-roads .lust before the government assumed management, were not pressed today, but will be taken up tomorrow. Mr. McAdoo has not expressed his views on the subject sub-ject of higher wages, but most of his advisers and executive assistants advocate advo-cate such a course as a means of retaining re-taining employees. Mr. McAdoo now is considering whether express companies should be taken over for government operation and has received re-ceived from his lepal advisers opinions on the proper procedure In case he derides this is necessary to maintain the highest efficiency. Congestion Reported. Serious congestion on certain railroads, while others adjoining or connecting are about normal, was reported todav to Dire-tor General McAdoo bv Interstate im merer Commissioner McOhord, in fliarg'? or the commission's inspectors. "The worst conditions reported so far," said the report, "arc on the. New Haven, t he -Ponnsyl van ia. lines west of Pitts-nure:, Pitts-nure:, on the Oonnellsvillp, and Cumberland Cumber-land divisions of the Baltimore & Ohio and on tho Western Maryland and the Cumberland Valley in 11 roads." i The Baltimore & Ohio at one point was reported to have 7fno rars 0f coal, although al-though 10A0 is a normal number These reports were forwarded immediately immedi-ately to A. II. Smith, assistant director general at New York, with instructions to reroute traffic from the heavilv burdened roads to those operating normally. Passenger Traffic Heavy. CHICAGO. Jan. ."."Western railroads have not derided upon any radical reduction reduc-tion in passenger service,'' U. I. Aish-tnn, Aish-tnn, president of the Ohteaeo & ' North -western railway, declared "todav. after attending a meeting of the executives of the roads. "Exclusive of troop movements." added, "the passenger 1 ravel in western t.ervi tory Is heavier than pvpr before Many persons are compelled to travel be-cuise be-cuise nf important business with various departments of the government. A committee com-mittee f railway officials is now making mak-ing a study of 1 lie sit nation to decide what curtailment ran be made in the passenger pas-senger service without inconvenience to the public." Switching Work Co-ordinafed. OMAHA. ,Ian. Dozens of railroad locomotives were released from f reight switch engine service todav and placed in main tine w ork wl'pn represents t ives of all Nebraska lines met with General Manager IToMrodep of the Burltncton as cliatnr.au. and agroo,i ti1j1t one rai!roan will do all swlt. liinc at common posits, releasing t he In. i -motives of other lines' At Lincoln the Rn idinetnn will i.3o f i, switching f"r Cnion Pacific Northwestern. Northwest-ern. Ro.-k UU nd. Missouri Pacific Fur-lincton. Fur-lincton. At ofher pouu? the switch work wiii fall to other load.. Working Forces Adjusted. CHICAGO. Jan. :t.---Tn acordsnce with govern mental instriKtions. railroad e-r? e-r? nlivpp in C'licaao. as in other part? of the eeiintrv. wove hnsv today adjusting their working forces to .are for ti-"c hundreds hun-dreds of business sn;i.-i t oi p ard siml'a:-cmployces, siml'a:-cmployces, whose services in their juir- (Coutlnued on Page Two.) TRAIN SERVICE WILL BE CURTAILED S00I (Continued from Page One.) th ular lines are not required under government gov-ernment operation. It was said that there would be little difficulty in each line placing its own men. as approximately 70.000 railroad men have joined the colors, which intensified an already acute labor situation. Reports that advertising departments were to be wiped out were said by Gerrit Fort, passenger traffic manager of the T'nion Pacific, to have only a small foundation. foun-dation. "Existing advertising contracts will be carried out," said Mr. Fort, "and probably prob-ably future contracts curtailed to barest needs. This, however, was determined upon by the roads themselves before Secretary Sec-retary McAdoo took control." |