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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Railroads -- Employees -- Periodicals Railroads -- United States -- Employees
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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-carloads to the extent that more andmore men can be put back at regularwork. The underlying factors whichprovide smooth and efficient trans-portation on the Baltimore and Ohio,track, structures and equipment, arein good shape today and we couldhandle a much larger volume of busi-ness than we now are. But indica-tions that business in general is im-proving, point to the necessity ofcomplete preparation on the part ofthe railroads to handle an -increasingvolume of traffic. Our volunteer so-licitors can, therefore, bring many ofour employes now furloughed backto their jobs by continuing to gettheir friends and acquaintances toship and ride via the Baltimore and
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Baltimore and Ohio Magazine, May, IQ22 13 Ohio. For the larger our revenues,the more money will be available toput men back at work. Interesting as it has been to see inthe Magazine reports of businesssecured by individual employes, ithas been decided to discontinue thereports of individual solicitation forthe time being. Many of the em-ployes have been adverse to sendingin the report postcards because ofundue modesty. Others have saidthat the shippers whom they ap-proached were willing to give us thebusiness asked for but did not wishto put themselves on record in writ-ing to that effect. Finally, Mr. Hart-zell found that so much business wassecured during the soliciting cam-paign, but had not been reported,that it made it appear that theMagazine lists were not fairly repre-sentative of the work done by em-ployes in all branches of the serviceand all over the System. Almost every month sees more rail-roads striving to get their employesinterested in the individual solicitingidea star

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