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Re: [BRHSlist] Discipline

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Discipline
From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@y...>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:45:47 -0800 (PST)
In-reply-to: <3f.15dc4448.2b3889d7@a...>
Leo
Let me try it again. I hit the wrong button, before
editing. The spelling of "employes", stayed around on
the railroads, until the 1970's!
John
--- qutlx1@a... wrote:
> In 1909 Second Vice President of the Q Daniel
> Willard issues a notice dated 
> May 1 that states "effective this date the practice
> of suspending from the 
> service employes(yes thats the correct spelling for
> time)in the train and 
> engine department ,because of the infraction of the
> rules,or for other 
> causes,will be discontinued".
> The bulletin goes on to set the parameters and
> procedures for placing 
> demerits on a mans record and for hearings and also
> for placing "at a boys" 
> in a mans record.The stated goal is to educate men
> about their 
> mistakes,maintain employment and loyalty.
> 
> From the length and tone of the bulletin I gather
> that discipline had been 
> immediate and not always uniform in the dosage
> prescribed. One very telling 
> line goes" that no credit attaches to the mere act
> of discharging a man from 
> service".
> Leo
> 


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