Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1921-07-08
CAN YOU BEAT IT?

even negro laBlllell on tllc NASH
Vile, Chattanooga & st, Louis,
Fitzgerald Hall, general counsel
of that road, in testifying before
the Railroad Labor Board IN a
plea for wage reduction exploded
ia bomb under labor's theory Of
the Living wage.
Rail road employees, as a
whole, - Mr.. Hall said, earn as
much, and in Some instances
more, than the best trained men
holding positions of greatest
trust and responsibility in the
four states through whcih we OPP
crate. The claim that any re-
duction will deprive railroad en-
ployes of living wage or enough
to live according to proper
American standards is refuted by
the facts.
"When our judges, college and
university professors, high school
and grammar school teachers,
preachers, policemen and fire
fighters receive, as a whole, very
much less than railroad employees
as a whole, there can be no just
claim that reasonable reduction
in compensation will deprive
railroad employees of a proper
living wage.
GA few examples will be il
Illuminating:
''The principal Of the high
school at Nashville, the capitol
of Tennessee, the educational
center of the south, received $3.50
per month, while yardmasters re-
ceive 1905 per month.
High school teachers at Pa
ducah, KY, receive $4,000 per
month, at Chattanooga, Tenn,
%l4S per month; at Huntsville,
Ala, 1925 per month while our
blacksmiths receive $lS5.51 per
month and our yard switchmen
SlS5.56 per month.
"The average Presbyterian
preacher in the south is paid
$1,000 per annum-less than one
half Of the earnings Of yardmas-
tiers and passenger engineers; ;
$662.72 less than yard switch
tenders.
"The Vanderbilt University at
Nashville pays its full professors
$3.50 per annm; the University
Of Tennessee at Knoxville $2684
l. per annum; the Georgia School
of Technology at Atlanta $4,000
per annum, while the conductor
on our Rome Branch, Is miles
long, receives $5735.9S-a sum
greater than that received by the
Judges Of the Supreme Court of
the State of Tennessee. Assist
ant professors and instructors III
these colleges and universities re-
ceive a maximum Of $2250 per
amum-less than a car inspector"
receives-less than the baggage
man on passenger tram re-
ceives.
"The judges of the Supreme
Court Of Tennessee are paid
$500 per annum, yet the engin-
eer on our Rome Branch, Is miles
long, receives $5997.04 per annum
"The negro fagman and porter
on our Columbia-Decherd Branch
train receives $3146.40 per an
mum, being $146 more than the
District Attorney Generals Of
the State of Tennessee, public
prosecutors of the state, receive.
"The fireman ON our Columbia
Decherd Branch train receives
$3925 per annum, being $425.00
more than the Assistant Attorney
General Of the State Of Tennessee
the man who represents the peO-
| pie Of the state before its SUI
preme Court in practically every
criminal case.
"The engineer on our Tulla-
homa Accommodation receives 81,
27192 per annum, being 1912
more than the salary of the Gov
ernor Of the State Of Tennessee.
"The engineer on our Tracy
City Branch receives 1878 per
month, a sum which is more than
either Of Chief Of Police or Chief
of the fire department at Allan
ia, Georgia, Memphis, Nashville
and Chattanooga or Paducah re-
ceivc.
"The fireman on our Pikevillc
train receives 1921 per month
more than twice as much as any
fireman in the fire fighting ser,
vice in any city on our entire