Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-08-08
THE PULLMAN EMPLOYEES. WAGES.

THE PULLMAN EMPLOYEEs' WAGES. The recent strike has caused con- siderable discussion in regard to the wages paid to the Pullman em. ployeces, as well as in regard to the bushes generally of the Pullman Company.
 Information at first givel out by the strikers was of such an exagger- ated nature, hat very many people expressed sympathy for the strikers, solely on account of what they con sidered the inhuman acts of the Pullman Compan Statements mado since. upon investigation. are wholly at vari nee with those first given out, and instead of employees receiving average wages of 9O cents, as has been stated. it seems that the average for men and women, boys and girls, IS S2l0.
 4 minister in Traer. Iowa, who signed himself the Rev. J. Nj. H." wrote few days ago to the editor of the Chicago Journal for facts concerning wages and rents at Pull man. In replying to the letter, through the Journal. the editor says:
 First 1t is known that z00) workingmen went cut on the strike | of May II, and that 6O0 more, mostly laborers, were thereby forced to lay down their implements because there was nothing for them to do.
 "Second.-Ws have the statement from MT. Pullman himself that the wages of these 2.600 employees, on May 10 were S5,50O per day, equiva- lent to $40 apiece a day.
 "Third.-The pay roll of Pullman clerks, foremen, superintendents, etc, who did not strike or go out on May II, was l,500, in addition to the $500, making total of N,OOO a day"
 He then goes on to say that before the panic of 1893, wages of all kinds. exclusive of those named in the last paragraph, averaged from SI.50 for the lowest to $4.J0 for the highes. per day. Rents were paid up and there were S7O0,OO0 in say ings deposits in the Pullman Saw ings Bank, about S350 for each depositor.
 Fourth. - When the financial stringency of last summer struck the country. wages throughout the entire Pullman works were cut 10 per cent. In the fall there was another cut of 10 per cent. and in the winter still another of the same amount. The reason for these cuts was obvious-car building had been overdone in 1892 3. and in 1893 f what work was done at Pullman was obtained after bitter competi- tion, and was done at an actual loss, including interest on capital and deeprcIation of machinery.
 In the matter of living expenses at Pullman, they were less in pro portion to the advantages than in the territory adjoining. Rents on the investment at Pullman were 3.S2 per cent. There are hundreds of tenants in Pullman renting at from $6 to $9 per month. The aver age rental in Pullman is 8 per room per month. In many cases the entire rent is paid by sub-renters of part Of the tenements.
 At the time of the strike only 3i per cent. of the Pullman working men were direct renters, 30 per cent. were sub-renters, and B per cent. had houses or lodgings outside the town of Pullman.
 The 2 per cent. quarterly dividend recently declared by the Pullman Company, was not paid out of the earnings of the shops at Pullman at all. This should always be borne in mind. This 2 per cent. dividend was paid from the earnings of the Pullman sleepers, and was paid out of the pockets of the travelling public, and not from tho contracts for ear building.