Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1913 — Frenchman Works Short Time. [ARTICLE]

Frenchman Works Short Time.

Recent investigations into the hours of work by officials of the French- department of navigation have brought to light a record in government employment in the shape of an official whosd daily "hours of duty” amount to exactly two minutes. This man dwells at a place on the Belgian frontier, and his arduous labors consist in fetching from one office a list of the number of barges that have entered French territory > the previous 24 hours and handing the said list in at another office. If the position be a glnecure, the pay ts not high, the remuneration amounting to 11.40 a month.