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Show WHOLESALE DISCHARGE OF CONDUCTORS. Some time since the officials of the U. P. R. R. employed detectives to procure evidence of dishonesty on the part of conductors on all the divisions of the road. The result is a wholesale discharge of conductors, about 100 having been turned off within the past two weeks. Of the passenger conductors on the main line between Ogden and Omaha, it is said that only three old ones remain. Comparatively, few have been discharged on the U. & N. division, and those who have lost their positions claim that they could clear themselves if allowed a hearing. They represent that construction men on boarding a train would deposit the amount of their fare with the conductors and afterwards obtain a pass, when their money would be returned to them. The detectives have seen the money collected but not returned, and as it did not appear on the conductor's daily report, it would at first appear that the money had been dishonestly appropriated. We are informed that seven is the number of conductors discharged on the U. & N., some of them old and popular men. |
