THE RAILROADQUESTION
Publicity Bureaus of Railroad Companies and of Employes' Brother
hoods Submit Further Statements on
the Wage Question
STATFMKNT HY KA1I.KOADS
Chlcapo, April f The Executive
Committee of tlie Aasoclatlon of
Western Uailwaya hu Isnued the fol
lowing statement:
The total number of cnelncers,
firemen, conductors and trainmen
employed by the railroads of Un
united Slates inoreaaed from 2.14.000
in Ht04 to 309.010 In 1914. The In
crease In 10 yearn in the number of
ten employed waa 21 per cent.
The total waea paid enKineers,
irenien. conduHorB and trainmen In
creased from 1229.000.000 In 1904
to 1 387,r.l0.000 In 1914. The wage
Increase In 10 years wan 69 per rent,
r over three time as great as the
Ierrentape of lncreaae In the number
f employees.
The 309,000 enginemen and train
men are now demanding an addition
al wape increase of 25 per cent, or
1100.000,000 a fPir.
These employee have vented In
tho officera of their various organiza
tions the rlpht to act for them In con
ducting negotiations with the rail
way mnnapers. If theeo offtclala re
fuse to arbitrate the wage contro-
rersy their only alternative will be
to ask for a strike rote; and a strike
would tie up all (he railroads of the
country and stop the movement of
all traffic.
Perhaps the first question the gen
eral public woild ask In this crisis Is,
"Are the engineers, firemen, conduct
ors and trainmen being fairly treat
ed by the railroads, a compared with
ther employees?"
The four classes named not only
Ket the btggofct wages paid by the
railways, but they have received In
the past 10 yearn, a higher rate of
increase In wage than other classes
f employees. Furthermore, It ex
ceeds the rate of increase in pay of
reneral and other railway officials In
the past decade.
As Indicating the progressive In
creases In wagea received by these
employees In recent years, the fol
lowing statistic published by tho In
terstate Commerce Commission,
showing the average annual compen
notlon of engineers, firemen, conduc
tors and trainmen In 1904 and In
1914 as compared with that of other
employees are Illuminating:
UNITKD STATUS
Increase
1914 1904 IVt.
Unglneers.. $1771.80 $ 1314.49 34.8
Firemen .. 10S7.49 735.69 41
Conductors. 163. 2 1113.6.1 37.7
rther trnmen 1023.26 707. r.6 44.6
Average .. $1263.37 $ 902.09 38.9
Other
Employees $ 881.78$ 545.79 25.5
WKSTKKN DISTIUCT
Increase
1914 1904 IVt.
Engineers.. $1819.91 $1406.70 29.4
Firemen .. 1A84.62 820.81 32.1
Conductors. 1599.22 1184.17 35.0
Other trnmen 10f.8.22 771.30 37.2
Average .. $1296.31 $ 983.08 31.9
Other
Employees $ 670.62 $ 557.63 20.3
In only one way can the railroads
Afford to pay a wage Increase of
$100,000,000 a year to engineers,
remen. conductors and trainmen.
That is by adding that sum to the
amount the public now pays for pas
senger and freight rates.
Under these rlrcunibtances does the
public want to pay higher rates?
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Tuesday, having been Becured by the
Alliance School of Music for the
fourth number of their season's
rourse of entertainment.
The next nMinber of the course
will be an evening's entertainment
In May. by Totten A Company, mag
icians.
J. L. N'icolai sold a Uuick car last
week to Sain (iraham who lives north
f town.
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Cleveland, t)hlo, March 5 It has
been repeatedly affirmed by railway
ollicialn that, if the demand by the
Transportation Brotherhoods for an
elnht hour day was granted, it would
cost the roads $100,000,000 annual
ly. The four employes' organiza
tions Involved have challenged this
statement, but the officials have nev
er yet presented any detailed figures
to prove how they arrive at that ex
act sum. They aimply make It one
hundred million and let It go at that.
An evidence of the fact that rail
way officials know It would not mean
any considerable increase of wages
to tho men, the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas Hallway Company, in a letter
addressed to Its trainmen, engine
men, yardmen and hostlers, signed
by W. A. Webb, -chief operating of
ficer, states:
"Tho feature of payment of tlmo
and one-half for overtime would
cause the railroads to avoid all ov
ertime payment poNsihle. Our over
time now amounts to more than sev
en per cent of the total wages of
train and englnemen, consequently
tne aVerage pay of employes In that
service is 107 per cent of what it
would be were no overtime earned.
It Is true you would earn a minimum
day's pay In some instances In two
hours' less time, than at present, but
tho likelihood of your earning In ex
cess of a minimum day's pay would
be remote.
The contention In favor of an eight
hour day has all along been that if a
penalty was fixed on the use of over
time the railroads would see to It
that there would be little or no over
time.
The railroad officials also contend
that It would be Impossible to reduce
the running time so that a division
would be covered In eight hours.
During the recent arbitration case
between Western Railroads and their
engineers and firemen, the railroads
presented elaborate exhibits which
showed that the average time of 78
per cent of through or Irregular
freight service on all railroads west
of the Mississippi river in October,
1913, between terminals 112 miles
apart was 8 hours and 24 minutes.
Transportation employes, therefore,
In almost four-fifths of the through
or Irregular freight service In the
West, which constitute about three
fifths of all freight train mileage, do
produce their 100 miles, the stand
ard for a day's pay, within 7 hours
and 30 minutes. It would follow,
according to these sworn statements
of the railroads, that on s'htly less
than half of the freight traffic of the
West the adoption of the eight-hour
day would require no additional la
bor outlay. Additional outlay would
probably be necessary for the adop
tion of an eight-hour day on only
one-fifth of the through freight serv
ice In the West. No overtime at an
advance of 50 per cent over regular
rales, however, would be paid, as the
traffic would probably be sent over
the heavy divisions in lighter trains
at a speed of 12 Va miles an hour.
1'niler any change In operating con
ditions which might occur, the In
crease In the total pay roll of the
western railroads would be very
s.itall.
These sworn statements prove the
insincerity of the ttgures now being
used by the railroad officials in an at
tempt to prejudice the public against
the fair and reasonable demand for
an eight-hour day for train service
employes.
In their statements issued to the
public the railways give a list of a
dozen or so engineers and conductors
who receive fancy pay. These men.
by reason of certain choice limited
passenger runs, are held up as ex
amples of what train service men re
ceive. The public is led to believe
that the pay received by these few
men is Indicative of the pay of the
average train service man. As a
matter of fact they are exceptional
cases and are not lair examples of
what the train service men receive.
The present eight-hour day move
ment does not embrace the passen
ger train crews only freight men;
therefore, it is not proper to use any
passenger service iren as illustra
tions of pay received by the men em
braced in the present eight-hour day
movement.
As the railway officials insist on
holding up these exceptional wages
as examples of train crew pay, it
I would be only fair and just to use
jthe Fularies and "contributions"
i made by the Koc.k Island Railway to
i its'otlicers. as fair and typical exam
ples of what the officials receive on
; American railroads,
i If the Itoek Island is a typical
case, the following, taken from the
Interstate Commerce Commission re
port. No. 6834, will be of Interest:
tollowing are specific instances
"hown of records of the contributions
i referred to :
1 "J- t!orman. first vice president
! charge of freight and passenger
j traffic, was secretly paid $18,750 per
! annum, making tiis total compensa
j l'on $43,750. whereas the pay roll
.showed $25,000.
! "t A- Morse, chief engineer, re-
i ceived a salary of $15,000 per an-
i I1U:11 nd a secret bonus of $3,000 on
. 'i'' f each year.
"I'pon the retirement of 11. A.
I Jackson as general solicitor, he wa
(given $100,000 in cash.
I "As an inducement to L. K. Loree
cnairman oi tne executive committee.
to relinquish after 10 months' serv
ice, a joint contract with the railway
company and the Frisco under which
he was to receive a salary of $7 5,000
per annum for a period of five years
and in addition was to be paid a bo
nus of $500,000 at the expiration of
the contract, he was given bonds of
the railway company of a par value
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of $450,000. This was borne equal
ly by the two companies, and the
proportion of the railway company
was charged to profit and loss. The
total amount borne by the railway
company in this transaction exceeded
$250,000.
"C. II. Warren, vice president, was
plven by the railway company $150,
000 in par value of the common and
$105,000 In par value of the prefer
red stock of the New Jersey Company
and $50,000 in cash. There was no
board authorization for the latter ex
pendlture, the Item being represent
ed In the records of the railway com
pany merely by a voucher signed by
D. O. Iteid.
"H. It. Cable, a member of the ex
ecutive committee, received from the
railway company $30,000 in bonds of
the Iowa Company, then worth $24,-
500, for his services in the acquis!
tion of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
& Northern Railway Company, and
he was paid by the latter company
$8;. 000 in the same transaction. Mr
Cable also received another contribu
tion, which will be referred to later
"Robert Mather, vice president,
was given $25,000 in cash.
"George T. Boggs, director and
secretary of the board of directors of
the railway company, was given $15
000 in cash when he retired from the
secretaryship of the railway com
pany." "The contributions to officials of
the railway company In excess of
their salaries aggregated about a
million dollars."
From the above report of the Unit
ed States Interstate Commerce Com
mission it is plain that railroad pay
rolls do not always show what the
officials actually receive. There Is
no question as to the railroads' abil
ity to meet the demands for an eight
hour day If the funds which in the
past have been diverted from their
proper uses, are allowed to remain In
the treasuries of the railroads to
meet the necessary expenditures of
runnine railroads as business insti
tutions. Clubs Mt at IlridgeMrt
The annual meeting of the Asso
ciated Commercial Clubs of western
Nebraska Is to be held at Bridgeport,
Tuesday, April 11. It is hoped that
every western Nebraska city will be
represented at this convention.
Suit for Divorce
Mrs. Florence I,eon. of Heming
ford. has filed suit through her at
torney. Lee aBsye, for divorce from
Leo L. Leon, alleging as grounds for
divorce, non support and cruelty. She
also asks for the custody of their one-year-old
child. Edward Ieon. Mr.
and Mrs. Leon moved to lleuiingford
from Minatare.
Land Case at Kiilivllle
A. S. Reed was a witness in it
case at Rushville last week before
the district court in which suit was
brought against John Mitchell for
the title to a quarter-section of land
located near Hay Springs. A num
ber of years ago George L. Jameson,
father of Edward L. and Howard W.
Jameson, deeded the quarter-section
of land to Mr. Reed to sell as trustee.
A mortgage on the land was due and
it was about to be foreclosed on. The
holders of the mortgage offered to
take less than Us face value. Mr.
Reed paid off the mortgage and deed
ed the land to John Mitchell, signing
as trustee. The tult was brought by
Howard Jameson in the names of
both brothers but after it had been
comenced Edward L. Jameson with
drew and gave a quit claim deed to
John Mitchell. The trial was a civil
suit and waa decided in favor of the
plaintiff, Howard W. Jameson
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WANTED AGENTS
WANTED Girl for house work.
Mrs. W, T. Spencer, 720 Box Butte.
17-tf-6831
WANTED Young men from eigh
teen to twenty years of age wanted
to solicit business for a local com
pany with a proposition that will
make good money. Address Box
6620, care Alliance Herald, giving
full particulars.
12-tf-6620
WANTED
WORK WANTED by competent,
able-bodied man. Will clean lawns,
run errands and do any work.
Wm. C. Garland, Phone 340.
14-tf-6715
BIDS WANTED The two-story
frame residence building at the
northeast corner of Fifth street and
Niobrara avenue is for Bale. Bids
will be received up to Tuesday, April
4th. Odd Fellows Building Associ
ation. II. II. Brandt, T. M. Lawler,
T. G. Waddell, Committee.
OSTADOUND
LOST On March 21, from Burl
ington train going to Denver after
noon, a black felt hat with the name
Phil Zlemer, O'Neill, Nebr., on the
Inside hatband. Train was three or
four miles Bouth of Alliance when the
hat was blown off. Ticket to Bridge
port was on Inside of hat band. Re
turn to Alliance Herald office.
17-25
LOST A Tartan check coat and
vest between Alliance and Bayard on
March 23, from an automobile. Re
ward for return to The Herald office
in Alliance, or The Transcript office
In Bayard. Charles Walters, owner.
17-21-6826
LOST Bunch of keys. A switch
key and six others on the ring My
name on tag. Return to Herald of
fice. H. M. Suslck.
17-tf-6827
FOR RENT
FOR RENT Two desirable office
rooms In the Reddish Block. Phone
168. 15-41-6726
BARN FOR RENT Handy loca
tion, 408 Sweetwater Avenue. John
W. Thomas, phone 175.
15-tf
FOR SALE
FOR SALE Good, paying butch
er shop. Good location and steady
business at good prices. Address box
64 06, care Alliance Herald.
9-U-6406
FOR SALE OR TRADE Power
ful six-cylinder automobile. Will sel
cheap, or trade. Call or write Tb-
Herald office.
l-tf-6568
FOR SALE 5-room house, mod-
Discount
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On all purchases of paints and painting materials here on Clean-up and Paint
up Week, April 10th to Arril 15th, Cash Sales Only
Hughes Crescent Cottage Paints
Exterior Paints
Interior
Varnishes
em except furnace.
Address 719 Toluca.
17-2t-6834
Good location.
Phone 672.
FOR SALE Having disposed ol
my mares I offer at a bargain my
Mammoth Kentucky Black Jack. His
colts are smooth and heavy boned.
A. Gauvaln, Mlnatare, Nebr.
17-2t-6832
FOR SALE Sudan Grass Seed.
Inquire or Victor Shuler, at the Shul
er Studio.
STORE FOK SALE
Good business; town small but
growing; In a prosperous agricultur
al and stock raising country. Only a
cash deal considered. DOVE & CO.,
14-4t-6677 Angora. Nebr.
FOK SALE
The best business in Alliance, Ne
braska. On account of poor health,
owner must sell the Atlas rooming
house of 47 rooms at a sacrifice price.
Building rent is low.
E. T. KIBBLE, Alliance, Nebr.
16-tf-6778
Registered Percheron Stallions, 2,
3 and 4 yrs. old; Blacks, Grey, and
Brown. Good young stallions $400.
W. L. PARR, Ruskln, Nebr.
17-2t-6810$
MISCELLANEOUS
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white hind feet; about 5 or 6 years
old, weight about 900, unbroke.
J. A. KEEGAN.
17-tf-6830
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY for
man with small amount of capital to
get into good, paying business In
western Nebraska. Prefer man with
some experience in farming. Must bo
steady and reliable. Address, with
particulars. Box 6645, care Alliance
Herald.
12-tf-664 5
MONEY TO LOAN on real estate
Apply to II. M. Bullock, Room 4
Reddish Block, Alliance.
6-tf-6307
RECORD FOR TRAINMEN
Railroad men can secure a very ue
'ul book at The Herald office. It le
lally time book for trainmen and er
lnemen. The price la reasonable.
4-tf-i728
MOVE FURNITURE SAFELY
We hare equipped our dray waf
ona and auto truck with the later
appliances for moving furnltur
without marring or scratching o
damage. Up-to-date wagon pad
will be used by us on all moving Job'
JOHN R. SNYDER. Phone 16
37-tf-5960'
MONEY TO LOAN On Box Butt,
county land and ranches In the san
hills. No delay In making the loai,
we inspect our lands and furnish th
money at once. J. C. McCorkle, Mr
Corkle Building, Alliance, Nebr.
l-tf-6554
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SAVE MONEY by buying your paint here next week.
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Money to loan on real estate-.
tt F. B. REDDIB1
NOTICE
I hereby give notice that Mrs. Mar
gret Green, who claims to be avy
wlfe, left my bed and board some
three years ago and has been twloe
married since then, and I will not be
responsible for any credit extended
to her.
Dated March 23, 1916.
WILLIAM M. GREEN.
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