The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1897-04-08

Trainmen Observation-Disclosures. los )
MachiDists Observation-Disclosures. $500 so |
Carpenters .. 32G9 50
Shopmen > V6l "a
Section tOremen ... l,lS6.40
........ O2S. A
Switchmen, tagmen and
watchmen n............ 2,1G095
Telegraph operators and dis
patcheTS Hoo ~
Other EMPLOYEES ...... 1853 50
Lost per day .... 321S6 80
Loss for the year IL, 1n5 Oo
During the identical year lending
June so, lS94l when this vast sum
of nearly eleven and three fourths
millions was secured by pairing down
the wages of subordinate employees
from | to l. cents a day, the aggre
gate amount 1ald to general and
other Off GERS was. upon the average
stated, increased by the sum of 3d.
447 99S 01; that is to say, nearly one
third of the eleven and three-fOurths
millions taken from subordinate EN-
ployees was added to the salary &C
count of the officers This includes
the salaries paid to the additional
officers employed in that year. The
loss to the subordinate classes aris-
ing from dismissals and reduced
wages amounted, as above shown,
to 500, ,261, GOA 80. After allowing
for all errors resulting from the use
of average rates of pay, the compen-
sation paid to subordinate railway
employees in 1894 as compared with
the fiscal year 1893 was aprar-
emily diminished fully $50, 10000
The paternal solicitude manifest
ed by very many managing railway
officials for the welfare of the sub
ordinate railway employee during
the campaign just closed, the fears
they expressed that he would not
vote on the side Of the sound
money which he had been re-
ceiving in such unstinted portions.
and the earnest and often success.
full efforts of those managers to de-
lude the employee into believing tina,
, his prosperous lot would be changed
into a condition Of starvation on
half pay, all become really ludicrous
in the light furnished by study OF
the figures above given. Not less
than 100000, 900 was taken from the
r great mass of railway employees in
, single year, and beyond questio,
a very large proportion of this sun
was again saved" in 1895 and 1896
5 The men " no pilot the train, who gov
3 ern the train, who serve the train
' who switch the train, who make th'
9 track safe for the train, who repai
4 the train, who, in fact, operate tn
road, and compose an army OF pro
! lection and safety to hundreds o
n millions of passengers and billion
: of dollars worth of moving proper
o ty, are freely made to bear the brun
p of untoward circumstances. On tn
q other baud, those who manipulat
I the company's finances, who devils
J. schemes by which this or that lare
! shipment is secured at any sacrltic
of revenue, who establish a tariff {
A charges only to break it, who ofte
q are able to "stand on the groun
floor" IN little side schemes ft
money getting which operate to tt
detriment of the road, but to tt
"a betterment of their own pocket
I raise their wages, when hard time
20 come, out of "savings" produced
IT shaving down the pay of subo
20 dinates or diminishing the numb
o of msn employed.
erI These Startling figures almost pc
is suade one to believe in the existen
s. of trust in railway pay as the
i. is in sugar, meat, iron, coal, o
1e lumber, leather, collins, shrouc
st and practically everything we ne
to to live with or die with.
Nearly hundred thousand M
to turned from work on railways In
e. single yea,. Sixty million dolla
tn taken from subordinate railway e.
I'D ployees IN q single year! Milo
"a of dollars added to the salaries
to railway officials in the same ye'
NJ Bow easy it is to practice econo!
he with other peoples money! All Il
y. happened before the issues of
ar- national campaign were frame
he but the conditions were eontlnu
he throughout that struggle and
is with US in all essential respects
EAR day. What was done with that
I'm Ity millions and various other n
M lions saved" in recent years fr
a operating expenses of railways m
nat be reserved for another chap'
The purpose of the foregoing is
vas expose enc single stupendOus shs
rn- and to point out to railway empl
M ees and the public how much
gh- prosperity and decent maintena
dis have been recklessly wasted to
all cure as good railway balance she
mes as possible under the blessed sol
for money conditions that have had
,alf sway in the United States in rec
om years.
, of Nov, how can any Senator '
ssal opposes the gold standard vote
ADV turn over the money taxed Il
he'd the people to these goldbug corr
few ationss 1t is gift. No Sen'
;c !. can do It unless he thinks 1t RI