Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1915 — MONON RAILROAD DEFENDANT. [ARTICLE]

MONON RAILROAD DEFENDANT.

Suits Brought Under O-Hour Law Demand $10,500 of C. I. &. L. Indianapolis, Oct. 22.—Suits were brought in the United States District court yesterday by Frank C. Daily, district attorney, against the. Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville* railroad for twenty-one separate viola-

tions of the 9-hour law, involving a total penalty of $10,500. The cases were .brought in two separate actions, one alleging eighteen separate offenses in the employment of three telegraph operators during six days for more than nine hours each day, srtid the other alleging three violations in the ease of the train crew of a train operating between Lafayette and the McDoel yards on Dec. 20, 1914. The first action charges that from July 26 to 31, 1915, inclusive, telegraph operators, A. Moss at Orleans, Ind.; W. O. Hepley at Crawfordsville, and J. D. Ellis at Greencastle, each was employed move than nine hours on each of the six days. The other action sets forth that the night of Dec. 20, 1914, and the following day C. 11. Hensley, engineman; Tom King, trainman, and S. W. Tandy, fireman, all were employed more than nine hours in the operation of a train. Each day a man is so employed constitutes a separate offens* under the federal statute, and each separate offense Involves a penalty of SSOO on conviction.