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HOW MODERN GREED DISREGARDS SAFETY OF 1 LIFE AND LIMB
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Showing Broken Anglo Bars and Rotten Tics on Railroad South of Platts- Showing Four Consecutive Rotten Ties on Railroad Between Weepln-
mouth, Neb. Water and Union, in Nebraska.
Showing Throe Consecutive Rotten Ties on "Railroad Between Weeping
Water and Auburn in Nebraska.
Showing Eight Consecutive Rottenand Broken Tics on Railroad Between
Weeping Water and Union in Nebraska.
Showing Broken Tie on Railroad Between Weeping Water and Omaha in
Nebraska.
Showing Rotten Tfes on Railroad North of Palls Oitv. Nebraska.
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Photographs of actual condition existing on a main line of'railroad in Nebraska. These photographs have been filed, together witlvcomplaint,
with the Nebraska State Railroad Commission. The complaint will be found elsewhere jn this issue of The Commoner.
COMPRINT IN NEBRASKA
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On Monday, August 5, Vice President Vur
pla filed with the Nebraska state railway com
mission on behalf of the National Union of Rail
way Trackmen a complaint against the Missouri
Pacific Railway company. Representatives of
the union spent considerable time in gathering
evidence, and taking photographs of existing con
ditions. Some of those photographs are repro
duced in this issue of The Commoner, and speak
for themselves. The complaint made to the Ne
braska commission follows:
To the Honorable Board of Railroad Com
missioners of the State of Nebraska: Your com
plainant, the National Union of Raifway Track
men, alleges that it is a voluntary association,
with headquarters at Fort Scott, Kan., its mem
bership being limited to men engaged in railway
track work in the United States of America;
The main purposes of the organization are to
secure fair wages, and just treatment for its
members, also to secure the safest possible con
ditions for the operation of railway trains, to the
end that life and limb may be made more secure
in railway travel.
Your complainant, by its vice president, H.
A. Vurpia, complains of the Missouri Pacific
Railway company, and alleges! ' J '
First That the sa.id railway company is" a
corporation organized and existing under and
by virtue of the laws of the state of Missouri;
that said corporation Owns, controls and operates
a line of railroad from St. Louis in the state of
Missouri through the states of Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska, to the city of Omaha in the said
state of Nebraska. The said corporation also
ownB, controls and operates a line of railway
from the town of Weeping Water, Neb., to the
city of Lincoln, Neb. The aforesaid corporation
also owns, controls and operates a line of railway
from Auburn, in the state of Nebraska to the
town of Crete, In said state.
Second. Your complainant further alleges,
that for a number of years the said railway com
pany has not employed ton its linea of railway
in Nebraska a sufficient number of men to per
form the Work of keeping its railway tracks in
safe condition for the passage of railway trains
'over said tracks, and that said railway company
during the same length of time has1 not' fur
nished sufficient materia wfth wfllcbf to "make
repairs on the tracks Qf its said railway within
this state. Its railway tracks are divided foe
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