Salt Lake Herald | 1907-04-10 | Page 5 | Smaller Offices Closed

Smaller Offices Closed I Council Bluffs Ia la April 9 In prep preparation preparation preparation for the law the Chi Chicago Chicago cago Northwestern railroad is clos cbs closing closing ing scores of Its smaller offices through throughout out Iowa Twenty offices upon the Ga Galena Galena Galena lena division have been discontinued within a week and many others will be closed this spring The railroads are unable to secure telegraph operators sufficient to man manthe manthe manthe the offices now that this class of men can only work nine hours The opera operators operators operators tors are being moved to the larger of oC offices flees where it is necessary to have haye three men instead of two as formerly In this way expenses are kept down the law is adhered to and the larger offices ollices handle the work formerly dis distributed distributed distributed among the many man smaller ones Chicago April 9 An official of the Northwestern railroad said the thc nine hour law had nothing to do with the laying off of operators It was the Ule cus ens custom custom tom torn he said when the winters work was over oyer to reduce the telegraph force