Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-02-28
THE W Az TO DO IT.
THIRTY MEN AT THREE DOL
LARS FOR EIGHT HOURS.
Great Increase Of Traffic Under The
New System Accidents Avoided.
Business Doomed - Fare
One Dollar Across
The Continent.

In speaking of an average force of
80 men per mile, | do not mean that
there would be 30 men placed on
every mile Of single track road wheth-
er there is work for them or not:
but do mean that there should be
so many men employed, on all the
roads in America, that they would
average 30 men per mile.
When people come to travel for
two-and-one-half cents per hun
dred miles, and move freight for one
cent or less per car per mile, there
will be II large increase of business
ON all the roads, which will create
demand for additional forces Of train
crews on every road, and for a con-
stant increase Of new cars and loco
motives on all lines. There would
have to be new side TRACKS at many
stations and sidings. Many single
track roads would have to be made
double track lines to accommodate
the increased traffic. Many lines
would have to have four, and
some eight and ten tracks their en-
tire length, and in the course of time
the transcontlnental lines would in
crease to from 20 to 80 tracks on
each line-~and the better the track.
and the more complete the equip
ment, and the more numerous the
men to rush the business through
and save time, the less the traffic
will cost per ton or per passenger per
mile to move it. On some miles
there would be q thousand men or
more employed in construction or
repair of tracks and operating trains,
while on other miles there would be
no one at all except when track
walker, q tram crew or Il section
force moved over it; but, taken one
mile with another, there would be at
once employed, proftably to them
selves and economically for the peo-
pie, an average of 30 men pc' mile
which average would, very probably,
be annually increased as the busi-
ness grows in proportions. That
would be q force of 3,G4S, 900, or
3,4OS, 900 in addition to the present
force Of 100000.
With such force on watch, day
and night, accideAtS coHid be entirely 4
0r0idel--no one overworked ph
would receive reasonable wages, and I
all kinds of business would be great /
ly expedited in every way. AS these
men would be employed only when
and where they could be used to ad-
vantage, there would be no loss or
waste of money from the increase Of
force. Such a force would set in
circulation, daily, $4,000, 900, OF
more, which would greatly relieve
the hard times throughout the
country.
Under the present system we are
sending out of the country, annually,
to pay interest, Sl13, 1906 and to
pay dividends, $1O2, ,052, 54S, or a
total loss to this country of
S2T5, ,l9l, ,6l2, annually, or $s53,6 6s5
per day, which is constantly increas-
ing, and will, within II very short !
time, amount to IA million dollars
daily, sent out of this country never
to return.
The people complain of the Chi
nese sending twenty million dollars
annually to China. Why do they
not complain of the railroads send
ing more than ten times that, or
s2S5, 900, 900, annually to Europe,
to fatten the aristocratic Shylocks,
and aid them to grind the poor
throughout the world? 1t is the
railroad corporations that bring the
Chinese here, and when the Chinese
are driven out the same corporations
will bring other Chinese. and if they
cannot bring Chinese they will bring
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