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Show SHORT in . CUTS HOURS ; j OFJIIOPHBI Employees on Forty-Honr Week Schedule Instead of Fifty-four. . WILL EXTEND TO . OTHER DEPARTMENTS Howerer, Prosperity of Idaho Ida-ho and Utah Means Small . Redactions Here. 'BafUmlnf today, tk amployaa of tat Oiagoa snort Uaa ghopa will bar s wacklnf achadni af alght koart a day, Ba daag A wen IB alaog 9t tha eld achadnla af bJb boon a day for tlx day g wek.Thr. will aa.a a ndoal radactlon of tho" umh of oav loyaag la aJmogt orary dayartsaaat of ta tyatata. Th reductioa ia hoar of ampJoT; meat an of th number of employee i. pureuant to a geaeral order jod which appli to all th llaea of th Harrimaa rtm. Th order reqneeu that ia view -of th redaced aarmg o( tha railroad, the for to b tut . 1 to tha for absolutely ay to handle tha trame. ' , . Thii order, pre dbpaUhaa aay, at farte about lioo employ of th TJaioa Pia railroad, but it will not a rioa.ly affect th Orgoa Short "omciaui of th Bhort Llao wr aot prepared ta aay how many mea would be laid off a tha reult of the apera-ttoa apera-ttoa of th order oa tbi liae. bat aald that ther would not ba a eeriaua a Th order will apply for th moat part to th ihop aad track mea aad to torn extant to traia aad Bgia crewa. Taar will 0 b ot fa th offle rn-j ploveea. Th prormw af reducing fore will extend over a period of thraa ar - f oar week, aad will b mora or Ha .rdua''rdnctloaj , j tfc enJe, fore will ba alight at preeent, but if th traffle doe aot larr ba'ora the middle of Beptembef.lt ia believed tht th roduetioa amy be a graat aa 10 par r. H. Knlekrbockr. asitgat to th general manager, and E-.C alanaoa, Janeral unerinteadeat of tha Bnort .lae, both declared that ther would be no aeriou reductioa ia tha number ef employee of tha Bhort Liae. They aa-.count aa-.count for th reduction of th fore of th Uaioa Taeiae beeauM of the light erop ia Nebraaka thi year, la j Vtah aad Idaho tha arena ar heavy, and It will take Imoat th atir preeent pree-ent force of th Bhart Lia to haadl the traffic thi fall. Th iiarrtmaa line hv receatly pnrchaaed a lar araooit ef aew aooin-inent. aooin-inent. and io thi fact i( attributed by tbe official th reductioa ia tha Bum-ber Bum-ber of (hop m ploveea. tl 1 poiated out that the new equipment 1 la good repair aad the hopmee ara aot buy aa ther wer before th aw equipment . wa iaatalled. Thia facti Ukea with the reductioa of traffic make tha work of th hop much lighter, making th full quota of employ aaaeeeeeary at preeent. , |