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Show FIVE-DAY WEEK T SI SHOPS Railroad Takes Action So as Not to Reduce Present Working Force Following the system adopted In the east and the middle wet the South-lorn South-lorn Pacific Kiihi.nl officials ;m-nounci ;m-nounci .1 todas I hn I I he men employi .i in the shops would work but fie days a week iinrins the month of FebrUafy. Xhla potion waa taken In order tlial the railroad m'u-m continue to retain the men now at work without prat-tered prat-tered lay-offs, or a reduction In the w iii Kick force The new plan ill obtain during Febriiar oiilv In the lonil mIhiii". In the middle west the I nion J'h-, J'h-, hi. mill oilier railroads hav adopted .. similar plan due to tlfe business con-idltlona, con-idltlona, Ft) LT OFI i 300 S.M'KAM i:T.. Cul.. Keb. 1. Twelve hundred men employed in the Southern Pacific railroad shops here 'will be Inld off on February l owing to .i slump in business, it whs an- mounded today A, " wiliiam-s, superintendent su-perintendent of motive power for tin compan |