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Re: (erielack) Punch cards----Interchange

PS New York had a weekly pay period and Pa had 2 week period Jerry H
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Subject: Re: (erielack) Punch cards----Interchange


>I am certainly not an expert on the punch card operations but I do recall
> that on EL our (Operators and Dispatchers) timecards were a two week (14 
> day)
> punch card.  The top line of the card had our name, employee number, 
> position
> number and some other payroll codes, etc.  We filled in our rate  if it 
> was
> not provided and there were rows for travel time, overtime, etc.   These 
> cards
> were sent to the Auditor of Disbursements in Cleveland at the end of  the 
> pay
> period.  Pay sheets from the pay book that showed basically the  same 
> items
> were sent to the Chief Dispatcher.
>
> Also at Warren, the Clerk (in later years Freight and Passenger Clerk) 
> would
> prepare punch cards for each inbound ore car.  Those cards would be  run
> through the sorter and then filed away.  Hand written "bonner cards" 
> would filled
> out with the Car Initial and Number, contents (Wabush Ore or  whatever) 
> and
> stamped with the date and time arrived.  Those hand written  cards would 
> be
> taken to the B&O/EL phone box at the Pipeline for the B&O  crew to use 
> when they
> pulled the ore to the Trumbull Cliffs Furnace (Republic  Steel--Warren.)
>
> SMT
>
>
>
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