(By United Press)
A FRENCH RAILROAD CENT El
Jan. 9.—What an American union h
bor man can do when its for his com
try and not a corporation he's servin
is demonstrated here.
Working in the big railway shop
here is a unit of the XJ. S. army engii
eers, recruited principally from on
of the best known railroads runnin
into New York. The men came fror
the Eastern railroad shops where th
repair work is done. Every man wa
j a member of the union at home. Hi
i union prescribed how many hours
day he should work, his wages am
i holidays.
Here in France today these exper
shopmen are repairing locomotive
from 6:30 a. m. until 7 p. m. with ai
hour off for dinner.
Working beside the American shof
men are French civilian shopmen Th<
French shopmen work liesurely am
talk a great deal, taking in addition
^several breathing spells along wltl
eating spells. At eight o’clock he ha:
breakfast, usually bread and wine
This follows the little breakfast hi
ate at home early in the morning. AI
noon he takes an hour off to ea
bread and cheese with wine. Foui
o'clock brings another mea! of breat
and wine. The American shopmer
work at the usual American presure
without rest periods and with a single
t meal at noon.
j The result of American labor in the
| local shops has been that broken (lows
; locomotives are getting scarce on this
part of the French railway system
On the other hand railroad officials
are busy trying to keep the shops sup
plied with frayed locomotives needing
; mending.
Men who would vote for a strike al
the first effort of a corporation to
infringe the union’s rules America
are working for, mui*lia«'«£odhy
without a grumble. In fad they are
satisfied.
“What do the men think of the
work and the hours,” a young lieuten
ant was asked who used to be foreman
in the Pennsylvania shops at Jersey
City.
“Well, it was pretty hard until we
got used to it,” he said. “Now it isn’t
so had. The hours remind the men of
how easy we were having it back
home with the old eight hour day. We
'u Id n't do it for the Pennsylvania
; railroad. But this is another matter.
All of us realize that it’s for Uncle
Sam and we re all satisfied to work
any hours to beat the Germans. I hope
the people at home realize what most
of us have given up to come ovei
here and work. First, most everyone
of us had a good eight hour job. Sec
ond, in my case and its the same witt
some others I know, I’ve got a mothei
and wife and child back in Jersej
City who’ve seen me everyday without
a miss. I’m kind of homesick and 1
suppose they would like to see ine bui
a fellow has to put all that aside when
it’s his country."
Within a few weeks, the Americai
s shopmen quartered here will leave t<
take over brand new shops, exclusive
ly American, in another part o
France.
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All echoes have s*>me one place t<
which they are returned stronger am
more distinct than to any other, am
that is always the place that lies a
right angles with the object of repei
cussion and is not too near nor too fa
off. Buildings or naked rocks re-ech
much more artistically than ftangin,
wood or vales, because in the latte
the voice is, as it were, entangled an
embarrassed in the covert and weal
ened in the rebounds.
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The cost of his insurance for
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talk’s goin’ on
' J about thar not bein’
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cirkalation. The real trouble □
Q is, when it gets to some folks, []
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