The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-06-02
GOVERNMENT AID
TO RAILROADS THIS
YEAR $124,000,000
marked Improvement Is
i Seen In Cash Situation
Of the Lines.
WAGES ARE HIGHER
Employees to Receive Pay
On New Basis Dating
From January |,
1918.
IMAGES ARE HIGHER

Washington, June i--The aid
that has been given 10 the sari-
Gus railroad companies in the
shape of loans by the railroad adj
mfs,istration was outlined In
statement toda, by nircCtorGen-
eral Mc.adoo.
All told Sta#, 600. 600 has been
advanced since January 1. all I'm
the nature of demand loans ex
cept the bigges, item. that az
s43 ae4. 600 to tho Nc~ Haven
road to pay it's collateral trust
notes which m-turrd In April
This loan WAS for ono year with
the right of twelve months re-
nesal.
OF tho total amount advanced
10 june i. 1918, Sfoo.st4.o00 was
ohtained from the $500 .00a. 900
treasury appropriation provided
for in tic railroad bill and Sl4,-
$40 900 WAS obtained from funds
raid over tn the director general
nv twenty ono railroad companies
their surplus funds.
The Individual com rBntes to which
advances wsrc made during the past
month were the Pennsylvania. sfh
A0a, zoe: Illinois Central, 81 .eao Geo;
Chicago. Mitwcukeeand 81, Paul So.
900 900, Baltimore ard ohio I coo,
0ne. Erie. "a zoo deo Denver ard Rio
Grand~. 81 SOC 600, and Ann Arbor.
s2a0 600. Il total ri s3$70o o0a for
the month Of May.
Up until tn" FIRST af may. $500 y
900 had been advanced ~ the total
sum including MAY was Distribute
among the railroad companies $ fol
lows:
New Haven. s43.as4. ooe New Work.
Central. SIS 500 Ahe pennsy lvania-
saa.e6H. 000 Baltimore and oAio. 50
600. 600: Illinois Central. $4,000 900,
Chicago, Milwaukee and ST Paul. IS.
Dor. 600: Pock lIsand. 1900 200
Erie $4,000 600. Denver and Rio
rsrande. ST 500. ono. Wah@sh. 81. 500.
600: Minncs polls and ST Louis S75e,
coo; Chicago. Indianapolis and Louis
vile $500. 0o0 Buffalo, Rochester
and pirtsbur- si0a 600. Ann Arhor,
5000 GOO. and Detroit, Toledo and
lronton. 100000.
Practically all other maturing ohN-
cations OF the railroad companies
which fell due in the month of May
were provided for without govern
ment assistance. or were renewed at
rates of interest not IN excess Of d
per cent per annum.
There has also been a marked inn
rroyement in the cash situation Of
the railroads generally and very
~ratifvinr reduction of the amount OF
unpaid vouchers reported.
Today was the first pay day or the
. 400 600 railroad employees. now en-
uloyes Of the government. under the
raxe increases granted by Director
General McAdoo. The railroad ad-
is prepared for some
rnrnnlaints from those who have re-
~~iyed wage increases since 1915 the
basic year upon which the wage COM
mission made the readjustmcnts. and
who will receive only an additional
increase above the increase already
received. In many cases the amount
IN the raise will be small. but when
YIeyed that II wifi prove satisfactory
10 all employees.
Rack nav in the amount of in
ereases dating from January will be
maid over to the employees regardless
AZ the regular pay days The employ
snr companies will figure the amount
Are on account of each month begin
oinS with~.JAnuary. and as raE%d'y as
the .nxttf9s are completed the back
~rarea due for each month, begin
Ming with January and running
through April, will he paid promptly.
protests Of a more vigorous kind
.nd not at all unexpected are being
r~refved In Washington over the in
rrNase in freight and passenger rates
Announced on the same day that Dr.
FACTOR general McAdoo adaded $780,
nf,o. 900 a year to the payrolls of the
railroads Today it was stated that
more than 500 complaints had been
received by Wire. telephone, in the
mails and in person.
4 Thu latest was entered today by
clifford Thorne. who has long repre-
sented the shippers In the. rate cases
hNfore the interstate commerce COM
mission. He filed his protest on be-
half Of more than 1000 shippers.
srhe shippers are highly organized and
are expected to put up stubborn
Nrht over the increases In freight
rates.
Among other organizations which
AayA protested against the new rates
are the Farmers Cooperative Assoc
cation Of County Elevators. Corn Belt
Meat association, National Live Stock
Isolation. American Petroleum as
n0ciation, Western Petroleum Rein
A. association and the shippers
$3dsrstion.
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