The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-09-15
SALARIES OF R. R. EMPLOYEES

Cotton and Cotton Oil Dallas. Tex)
News, gives the following on salaries
OF certain railroad employees:
Upon examination we find that
IL per cent Of the employees of the
railroads of the country, among the
best paid labor in the world. are
ready to paralyze the commerce of
a nation and bring want and disas-
ter to nearly every man, woman and
child IN this country, besides entail
ing millions Of dollars of property
loss in perishable freights. farm pro
Iduce, especially butter. eggs, vege-
tables and live stock, in order to
force the recognition of an eight
hour day. Such time is utterly i'm
practical of application in the operat-
ing department of a railroad. MANY
of their men work an average of less
eight hours per day now.
No strike was ever won which did
not have the sympathy of the public
and which was ordered without a
proper grievance.
Here are some specific cases of
earnings of railway engineers in the
year ended June so, 1914. and there
has been no reduction in wages of
these men since that period:
]. Shuttleworth, c. N. R.R. $3,725.2O
X. W. Gibson, I.&G.N. R.R. 3,194.1O
W. Crawford, G.. N. X. r. 3.17S.5O
A. + Barnes, CM&StP R.R. 3,l2O.0S
L. w. Gilbert, AT&SF X r 3.O52.26
r. M. Griffith, |. C. r. R. 3,O32.O8
c. j. Barnett, |. c. r. R. 3.O13.23
J. w. Alexander, ATSF Ry 3,OO4.1O
=. n. Derryberry, ORG Ry 2,984.96
A. r. Bigleben, Y&MV Ry 2.974.S7
F. S. Simmons, Ell P & S Ry 2,971.45
John Scott. G. N. Ry- 2.931.15
W. Reid, c. =. Ry-- 1888. 63
F. w. Jackon, AT&SF Ry 2,s61.64
j. K. Sircoloumb. CB&Q Ry 2,8l1.19
F. P. Williams, SLIM&S Ry 2,sO1.25
1928 engineers Csc per cent of
the total number employed) earned
over $50 a month.
1854 engineers ga per cent?
earned over $175 "a month.
4,0l9 engineers (l5 per cent?
earned over 5000 a month.
l,465 engineers earned over 1925
month.
ABA engineers earned over $3.50 a
month.
14l engineers earned over 1915 a
month.
81 engineers earned over $500 a
month.
IA engineers earned over 1926 a
month.
For one month the payrolls of
Western roads show wages actually
earned by tiremen as follows:
11,475 firemen (47 per cent of the
total number e~mployed) earned over
500 a month.
4,21O firemen earned over SIPS a
month.
696 fremen earned over $50 a
month.
1852 tiremen earned over SITS a
month.
81 tiremen earned owe 5000 a
month.
4 iremen earned from 1926 to
$233.32 a month.
An engineer on the Atchison. To-
peka & Sante Fe in one month made
1854, running 6.3 hours per day, and
for the year earned $2,S75.77. or an
average of $239 per month.
An engineer on the Denver e. Rio
Grande working 81 days in one
month earned $246.S6 in freight SER
vice, and $16.10 additional for a
round trip n day in passenger SER
vice. An engineer on the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul on a run of
36.6 miles, for which he was paid for
100 miles under the minimum day
rule, was paid $329.65 in one month
for . hours work a day. His actual
mileage for the month was 1887, but
he was paid for 5000 miles.
In the Western enginemen's arbi-
case testimony was intro
duced regarding a fireman on the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe who re-
S209.89 in one month for fir
ing an oil-burning locomotive. al
his position as compared with
coal fireman's is a "snap." The
oil fuel is fed through pipes and reg
by a valve in the cab, the fire
man not being required to leave his
seat except three or four times in a
l00-mile run to pour a scoop of sand
INTO the firebOx to clean the fiues.
The editor of this paper is fifty
years old and for over forty years
ne has worked not less than nine
hours a day and not more than ff-
There was a time when he
.ould get no work for ten hours per
lay at SO. That was not over thirty
Years ago. and he was one of the best
printers in the South, too.
How do you suppose the farmers
If the country who put in fourteen
lourh a day from March till Decem-
,er. especially those in the cotton
ields Of the South, are going to re-
,ard this strike?
The railroads of the nation. along
With everything and everybody else.
re just recovering from the pros
shock of the European war.
Everything and everybody made con-
essions to pull through that pahic
kept the men who are now asking
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