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Show Union Pacific Resumes Car Building Work One hundred and sixty-nine mechanics me-chanics returned to work at the Union Pacific Omaha shops February Febru-ary 14, on resumption of the road's $3,000,000 car building program, which was temporarily suspended 30 days ago. Work was also resumed resum-ed at Grand Island Monday, where 115 employes were put back to work, and at Portland, Oregon, with 125 employes. Commenting on the Union Pacific's Paci-fic's car construction activities, President W. M. Jeffers said: "Recessions don't last forever. While our revenues have shown a drastic decline during the past ninety nine-ty days, and the outlook for the near future is not favorable, we have decided to disregard the immediate im-mediate situation and to continue our program in anticipation of future fu-ture improvement in business conditions, con-ditions, to keep the Union Pacific's equipment in the front line and enable en-able the company to continue to provide the highest class of service to our patrons throughout the west. During the past two years, we have carried on this car building program in our own shops in the west, employing em-ploying our own skilled labor, in order or-der to stabilize, just as far as practicable, prac-ticable, employment conditions on our lines." Commencing in 1936, and continuing continu-ing through 1937, the Union Pacific Paci-fic constructed 1,500 new box and automobile cars, and modernized 1,-200 1,-200 additional cars of the same class at a total outlay of $4,500,000. The present building program, President Jeffers stated, was commenced in October, 1937, for the construction of 2,600 additional cars at Omaha, Grand Island and Portland, with an additional appropriation of $9,000,-000. $9,000,-000. Of this number, 1,700 cars remain re-main to be completed, and the resumption re-sumption of construction work will provide employment for 400 Union Pacific mechanics well into the early summer of 1938. |