Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-02-20 | Page 1 | Ask Extension of 9-Hour Law

ASI EXTENSiON Of o HOUR 9 LAW I WASHINGTON Feb 20 A O.-A A proposition proposition sit ion very cr serious to man many thousands of people residing at nt and i in t the thc vicinity vicin cin ity of small railroad ad stations throughout through through- out the c country is presented to the thc interstate in in- commerce commission in au an informal informal informal in in- formal petition ion in which the tho Wabash Railroad company compan asks for an extension of tho the time of the Jc going into effect of the nino nine hour hour law which applies s to railway railway rail rail- I way war employees who ho havo the direction C of movements mo of trains It is declared I in the thc petition that unless the order of extension is ms made mantle either by the commission com corn mission or cr by br congress tho the only alternative alternative alter alter- native will be closing of a largo number num aunt ber of stations on the Wabash railroad It is pointed out in tho petition that in order to comply wit with tho time pro provisions of 01 the thc new oc law tho the company would have bare to employ an an additional telegraph telegraph tele tele- I graph operator at each of 10 stations on this Jin line Thus far the company says that it has not nol been able to secure the services ices of efficient aud and coi competent o operators op I craters in iu such numbers rs as its will o oit it to comply with tho the act net I Other r. con companies panics have taken substantially the thc same ground as tho the Wabash They n maintain their i lute Jute usability inability to to secure a sufficient number of competent telegraph operators operators opera opera- tors to man mau their wires as tie too law after the lib of ot March will require