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Show I SANTAFETO H fill rfiil! r f lUI I UliUL pj If Business Does Not m Improve, Employes if Must Go fkV Chicago, Aug. 23. E. P Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka &. Santa Fe railroad, said last night that, unless business conditions improve, i it will be necessary to reduce the slx-!!i slx-!!i ty thousand employes of that com-j com-j I pany. li "Prospects for any substantial bet- fterment in the general volume of bUB-iness bUB-iness are. not ver3' bright, in my opln-Ion," opln-Ion," Mr. Ripley said. "The decision of the Interstate Com-SB& Com-SB& merce commission In the intermoun- tain rate cases already has had a sen- -V, timental effect that has not been bene-ifl bene-ifl flcial." A An order issued by the management 1 I of the Chicago & Northwestern rail-J rail-J way, dispensing with the services of fc f about two hundred clerical workers W fc yesterday, led to a report last night J e that a drastic policy of retrenchment fl ( was being enforced. ii- L. A. Robinson, comptroller of the ijt ' company, said: Cij "We are finishing up work on the P i fiscal year's account and it is cus-Jl cus-Jl I tomary to cut down the extra force t4 when the large amount of work en-mi, en-mi, tailed by this task nears completion. ifC "Our shops are employing full I forces and no reduction of a general i nature among our employes is con- templated," said R, H. Ashton, vlce- president of the company. "Our force Ul r today is about the same as last year." I nn . |