Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1911 — Shifts Made In Working Force at The Monon Depot. [ARTICLE]

Shifts Made In Working Force at The Monon Depot.

The depot force has been disposed to conform to the law which provides that telegraph operators shall not be required to work more than 9 hours a day, but instead of another operator being employed a clerk was put on in addition to the force that'has been working heretofore. The new man is Scott R. Chesnut, who works with Agent Beam in the day timeaiid whose hours are from 7 in the morning until 6 in the evening. As he is not an operator he can work more than 9 hours. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon Frank Busha begins work and is on the Job until relieved at 11 o’clock at night by Elmer Wilcox, who remains at work until Agent Beam comes to work at 8 o’clock. Mr. Beam ty required to do his own operating from 8 a. m. until Busha reports at 2 o’clock. Heretofore he has had an operator with him about all the time and was thus able to escape much of. that work. His hours, however, are short, and si* hours are all that he will be required to work, but be has supervision of the entire force. The new disposition of the force began Monday and the employees have not been working at it long enough to know whether they like it or not