The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-05

CT Ol locomotive ldS increased oo per cent, the capacity of freight cars 30 per cent and the tons car ricd by the average freight train AZ per cent since 1900, as shown by the I. C. c. reports. We suppose we are justified in taking it for granted that the new editor of the Nugget is wholly ignorant of the system whereby railroads pay their trainmen. He will therefore be wholly unaware that the "mileday' is the method. That will of course be Greek to him. The day is ten hours and 100 miles must be covered which is the standard known as the 100 mile day of ten hours. They are paid upon a mileage basis and it is therefore all in favor of the | companies.
 In point of fact the original de- mand was that they be given an eight hour day of 100 miles and that the speed of the trains be in- creased so that the 100 mile be GOV cred in the eight hours. The rail road trainmen insisted during the dispute that in 95 cases out of hundred the run of 100 miles could be made inside the eight
 hours, and in many cases it is made
 therewithin right now.
 Ten hours for 100 miles is all
 average of ten miles an hour. The trainmen thus asked in effect that
 they be put over the road in 12 12
 miles an hour instead of ten as at
 present. In doing so they would re-
 lieve congestion. They would de
 crease delays to freight, and they
 would increase the efficiency of a
 public service.
 Because the companies do not pay by the ton-mile, but pay per ten
 no benefit from the increased traffic
 which, as revealed in the net earn
 ings from October 1915 to July
 1916, ranged from 40 to 70 per cent
 above the net earnings for cores
 bonding period the year before.
 Railroad efficiency upon the part
 of the management has founded it.
 self upon the old maxim of mechan"
 ics that what is gained in speed is ! ;,,
 when they installed enormous capa-
 citied engines, built huge pressed
 steel cars capable of carrying 100000
 lbs. each, they also were obliged to
 curtail the time mileage schedule
 And overlooking has become such
 common practice even with great
 articulated compounds that now
 cough across ninety pound steel, de
 lays are increasing steadily and last } year the railroads voluntarily re- ported no less than 100000 cases oi
 infraction of the sixteen hour law! Yearly the railroads in the United States experience car short
 age and a car excess. And the re- markable matter in this is that the car excess is often reported wher
 traffic is at it's height owing to the delay or refusal to run trains below or approximately close to their max
 imum capacity!
 Everything here stated is within l reach of the Nugget man if ht would devote the time and study tt actual conditions. But if intellectu ally or constitutionally incapable O. aScertaining them, we submit then for his information, so that wheI } delivering his next tirade agains labor unionism he can no longer bt : ridiculed for an utter lack of know ledge of the subject which he hand les.
 The mythical concept of an in : jured public is one of which he il : not alone in making use, and he il is not singular in his firm devotion to it's existence. But the industria B scheme of things makes us all eithe B producers of wealth and it's distri
 butors, or its consumers ant : wasters. v
 The entire system of stockholdinl |, in industry and the idea of salariet directors is as unessential and cum 6 bersome and unjustifiable as roya family in the political world. Tn E brains of management can .justif, t it's salary; the intelligence in opera tion and the labor that is directed by such human intelligence all ar factors in wealth production. Pri 7 vate ownership of utilities has n' economic Justification whatever : The people pay the bill. The mer
 who function usefully then in thu