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Show SENDING RAIL WORK TO OTHER! I SHOPS COSTLY j I Roads Spend $3,000,000 More By Not Doing Own Repair $ Work Washington March 31. Contracts Con-tracts with outside locomotive construction con-struction companies during 1920 for the repair of engines cost the New Voi I; (.'rniral and Pennsylvania rail- I roads each approximately $3,000,000 more than the yame work would have 1 cost in their own shops, the interstate 1 commerce commission found today after af-ter in Investigation. '1 be Atlantic Coust Dine railroad, however, which also contracted repair re-pair work out to locomotive construe-I lion shops during 1920 was Justified In so doing the commission held, even though It also Incurred excessive costs FIo members of the commission dissented from findings of the majority, ma-jority, censuring the Pennsylvania and the New York Central Thi commission's Investigation was Instituted upon complaints originally filed by th- American Federation of Iabor and railroad unions which al-l al-l k'e.l that the railroads named, by ending locomotives in need of repairs to the Baldwin Locomotive, works, the American Locomotive company and other construction concerns were evading railroad labor regulations and at tho same time incurring extraordinary extraordi-nary and unnecessary costs The costs so far os ihey concerned the New York Central and the Penn- 1 Sylvan! a, were sustained In part by the j commission. The cost of repair work i done for the Pennsylvania, tho commission com-mission said. Included In some in- ; stances work paid for twice 00 |