The Seward gateway., 1917-01-05
SEWARD. ALASKA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 1917.

The Alaskan Engineering Commission IS known to be determined to connect Anchorage and Seward thS year if it is at all poSSyc. Any other statement mace o@ peo pie connected with the commission IS prOOaDF mean! .o avoid promising hat might be impossible Of accomplish ment The ralr6ad may not be fully completed thlS La between the two towns but the commission certainly lS9o- ing to try to complete it. You will see thlS Is true
 A laborer on the government railroad easily make
 more noey than members of the office force or some OI the assistant engineers Owing to labor mlOnS unSkeo labor is fast becoming better paid than cerlcal or similar workers man working on the grade out ele ctl easiS save at least sixty dollars month while the man III the office is lucky ii he doesn't go sixty dollars Ill the hoie And this is so everywhere nowadays In the states oS ness men could fre men to do the cleucal work much more cheapy than carry boxes from the WafehouSe
 One consequence of this fact Is that boys growing up get so much money at unSked labor that many OI them are tpmDed to avoid training for something that WOud Oe oI pernauent value In this government work here mem herS of the clerical staff will find themselves Wltn0ut oc equation when the road IS completed They Will nave learned little or nothing about thelr WOfK hal e!
 know now They are just as efficient now as they Will Oe then and they will have no better equipment to settle down to some permanent occupation m winch they cOud Oe m dependent All the greater number can do IS to LOOK TOT another o0 The government Is generous to US aoofeIS on the railroad whether 1t Is because of cOmpuSlon or mt and if should be generous to its other employees Far from paving less than private cOmpaeS to It's eh povees it should pay more especially in temporary posi- tionS like those in the construction Ot the railroad
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