1908 - Many Shop Men are Dismissed

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Roanoke Times - April 1, 1908

MANY SHOP MEN ARE DISMISSED

Those Who Are Retained Will Be Given Forty Five Hours a Week in Future

   Fifty per cent of the men working in the shops of the Norfolk and 
Western railroad were dismissed yesterday. No statement has been 
given but from the general offices of the road as to just what this 
discharge means.
  In all, about eight hundred men are now out of work and are totally 
unprovided with work for the future. This is pursuant to an order 
issued from the office of General Manager Maher, Monday.
   Both General Manager Maher and President L. E. Johnson are out of the city.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link