People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — Railroad Men Are Laid Off. [ARTICLE]

Railroad Men Are Laid Off.

Omaha, Neb., Jan. 22.—Five hundred employes of the Union Pacific, between Council Bluffs and Cheyenne, got their time checks last night. Out of the number laid off 360 are at the Omaha shops. Master Mechanic Manning says the men will be put back as business will warrant. The men remaining in the shops continue to workeight hours a day five days a week. The Missouri Pacific also began to retrench yesterday. Half the men in its Sedalia "■ shops are to work alternate weeks.