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Show RAILROAD ADOPTS WORK BY MONTH The Delaware & Hudson Railroad completed an agreement v. ith all its operating errployees guaranteeing them 210 hours work a month and scrapping the mileage basis of pay employed on most other American railroads. It was announced that after several months of negotiating, national and local officers of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen Train-men had accepted a monthly wage plan. This plan was adopted previously by, the other three of the "big four," the engineers, conductors and firemen. Under the new plan no employees will be discharged even if Inifl'ic should decrease, the company promised. Work will be distributed dis-tributed among the 2850 operating department men. Each employee- is guaranteed pay for' 240 hours of work, and none will be permitted to work nore than that time. o |