The Owosso times., 1922-01-27
We Understand

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Transportation rates must come
down Is the public demand. Re-
ductiOn in wages is the only re-
course is the claim made by the
railroad officials.
According to information re-
ceived there are some 1900 of
these officials drawing salaries up
to $120, 0,73290 per year, totaling
twenty-siX million and some odd
dollars per annum. Some IL of
them are receiving a larger salary
than the president of the United
States. Here they are:
j. NJ. Dickinson, receiver of the
c. r. l. & p, crippled and looted
system, s12O,732.90; A. S. Lovett,
chairman Union Pacific, $1O4,104.-
16: l.. f. Loree, president Della
ware & Hudson, chairman Kansas
City Southern and chairman
Wheeling & Lake Erie, $91. .945; j.
Kruttschnitt chairman Southern
Pacific System. $SS,6S0; A. II.
Smith, president N. Y. Central,
s78,360; +. d. Underwood, presi-
dent Erie. s77,95O; Walker D.
Hines, then director and chairman
A. T. & S. F., $T7,21O; Daniel Will
lard. president b. e. o., $75,4SO;
Samuel Rea, president Pennsyl-
vania, SIS, 400; r. p. Ripley, then
president A. II. e. S. F., $75,400 |;
w. II. Truesdale, president d. L..
& W., $75,399.
Legal advice as far as they can
go regarding manipulation of stock,
Interpretation of laws for their
own benefit, raising technical is
sues, and evasion of agreements,
apparently come high. In the fol-
lowing list of executives who are
receiving from $4,000 per year up,
| ii will be noted that Mr.. Chadbourn
Shores, counsel of the Denver a.
Rio Grande. is paid salary of $685.
| 900 per year. His services and ad-
vice are evidently not considered
sufficient for there is also Mr.. M.
l.. Bell retained at salary of $55, :
| 900 per year.
Hale Holden, president and di-
rector, Chicago, Burlington g.
Quincy. Colorado and Rig Grande,
$3.50 Chadbourn Shores, coun-
sci for Denver and Rio Grande,
| $685. William Sproule, vice.
president, Southern Pacific Asso-
ciated Oils, $62,036; John S. Run
nails, president Pullman Co.. $780,
500; Martin Hughitt, Sr., chairman
board directors, Chicago & North
western, Minneapolis & Omaha,
Chicago and st. Paul, $50, 400; c.
| II. Markham, president Illinois
| Central, $60,555; Thomas M. Schu-
maker, president FL Paso and
son. president Norfolk and West
ern, $60,090; Robert B. Scofield,
assistant secretary and treasurer,
Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern, $60,010; NJ. l.. Bell, general
counsel. Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific. $50, 1856; Henry McAllister.
Jr.. general counsel Denver and
Rio Grande, Rio Grande and
Southern Utah Fuel. $4,000; Car
ter, Ledyard e Milburn, general
counsel, Denver and Rio Grande,
$55, 900; T.. Pennington, president
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie, $52,723; E. b. Thomas
chairman of board Lehigh Valley,
$5O,S80; Fairfax Harrison, presi-
dent Southern Lines, $50,500;
Richard II. Ashton, president Chi
cago and Northwestern, $5O,24O;
| w. II. Belen, president and general
manager, Central r. r. of New
York, $50,210; Ed. f. Kearney,
president Wabash, $50, ,120; VIM.
IT. Noonan, president of Buffalo,
Rochester and Pittsburg, $4,000;
S. Dawes Warfield, chairman of
board, Seaboard Air Line, $4,000.
There are thousands of other Of
ficials of the railroads to whom 1t
is found necessary to pay salaries
up to $4,000 per year in addition
to the above named, that the affairs
Of the railroads be properly clnan-
aged. -
The governor of the Canal Zone
now receives salary of $4,000
per year, recently having been in
creased from $40 1000. The manage
ment of the Panama canal, the
Panama railway and administration
of the affairs of the Canal Zone, we
believe are as much an undertaking
as that of any railway company,
and requires as much executive
ability.
If the governor of the Panama
canal can live on $4,000 per year,
is not $4,000 per year or $4,000
per year, which in most instances
is in addition to other incomes,
somewhat out of proportion, es-
pecially to men whose minds seem
to function along the same line,
and that is, reduction of trans
portation rates can only be ac-
complished through reduction of
wages of employees who are now
receiving barely sufficient to exist.
Has it ever occurred TO these Of
ficials and directors of the railroads
that If pruning is absolutely nee
essary that it could very well begin
at the top of the tree where it
would cause less suffering than
among men who are paid by the
hour, and who should they feel
inclined to enjoy little game of
golf, or feel the need of vaca-
tion, would have to enjoy these
luxuries on their own time and at
their own expense?
If these officials are as efficient
as they are paid to be, and have
managerial qualifications as they
should have and appreciate the
loyalty and efficiency of their en-
ployes. and sincerely feel that re-
duction is essential, why not start
the reduction where ii would be
less felt and cause less suffering?
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