1908 - Retrenchment by Va. & S. W.

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Roanoke Times - January 3, 1908

Retrenchment by Va. & S. W.

   Bristol, Va., Jan. 2 - Special - The Virginia and Southwestern 
railroad is following the example of the Norfolk and Western in point 
of retrenchment. Today there was a general cut in the cars shops 
here, and a large number of men are idle for the present. The train 
crews have been reduced to the extent of seventeen men, and in every 
department there will be a reduction to comport with the decline in 
tonnage due to the closing of important operations. The wages of the 
men at the iron furnace have been reduced and the iron rolling mill 
is still idle.
   The Virginian and Southwestern railway reduction of force in the 
shops today amounted to forty-five per cent of the men. Fifty-seven 
men were dropped from the payrolls.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link