Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1914 — Monon Shops Force is Seduced at Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

Monon Shops Force is Seduced at Lafayette.

Lafayette, Ind., May 11.—Acting upon an order from President F. A. Delano of the Monon there will be a cut, beginning today, in the working foree of the railroad company of 20 per cent. More than 100 machinists, blacksmiths, boiler mjakers and clar builders were let out today on account of the falling off fn business. The shops here now will work only forty hours a week and the retrenchment movement, will extend to all parts of the system. Many of the mechanics who had been in the employ oi the road for several years were affected.