The company has cut 950 jobs from its military-related payroll in the last four months.
He estimated that Digital needed to cut 30,000 employees from its payroll in order to get its costs in line.
The company threatened to file for bankruptcy protection if it did not cut that much from its payroll.
This, even though International Business Machines is cutting almost 200,000 jobs from its worldwide payroll.
Over the last few years, Pratt & Whitney has cut almost 2,600 workers from its payroll.
The T.V.A. has since cut 11,000 engineers, construction workers and clerks from its payroll, but it has not raised rates once.
The company plans to cut 8,000 workers from its worldwide payroll of about 90,000.
Analysts have estimated that Digital will eventually cut 5,000 workers from its worldwide payroll of 125,000.
I.B.M. said it would cut 14,000 jobs from its payroll.
He said Mr. Maxwell wanted to cut 300 of the 700 drivers from The News's payroll.