Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-09-29

Continued from LAST Week
Travelling Mans Delusien
4 saort time ago "a conductor told
me about q travelling man with whom
j be had been eontersipg ou thhe tram,
! III Nds a freight tgaiu and ehls travel
ling r3aa VAS riding in the caheese.
! Tie swelling man sai6 30 me eandpc-
tor. You are one of the high paid
men is that Sa.a SalO the eouauc-
1Ors tell me Il yeu can see the en-
gjue that's pulling this train No.
E cant see the engine. said the
travelling nan. "oan eou see any
steam or smoke2n NO. can't
Well what's pulling the train 90 i
dont know; seine kind 81 power
E Yes said the conductor, san engine,
+ pulling 5000 tons Of freight. And |
ger S500 Tor running this train 100
+ miles, why. said the travelling
man. Il thought you got three times
+ that much
Last September my younger brother
stopped az a crossing and. While wait
+ ing 10 get by, youthful farmer
climbed on his engine and they got 70
+ talking. Ny brother said. Where
+ have you been ." an the wheat fields
the farmer replied. he had been out
f I'M the wheat fields OF Kansas harvest
+ ing. "How much do you earn" said
my brother. -Four dollars a day and
ny beard for myself; tiVe dollars a
i day for the use OF my horses and
+ wagon, and my horses board My
! brother said, Nine dollars a day"
But said the farmer boy, Il pre-
sumo you get twice that much. No
i said my brother; Il am paid SOS for
running this passenger engine 100
/ miles, There was his engine coupled
+ To fourteen cars, eight Of which were
i sleepers; a train filed with human
+ freight and that heavy responsibility
resting on his shoulders. Think of
I the thousands Of other men situated
as he is, and yet we hear the cry,
Reduce the wages
i In discussing the railway wage,
/ Arthur Brisbane said in an editorial
lately in his syndicate of newspapers,
/ As follows:
"The Wolverine fast train be
tween New York and Chicago was
flying at top speed toward a pile
! of steel pipe and heavy timbers
criminally put on the track. Viii
/ liam Otis, engineer, watching
every foot of the road, saw the
! barricade, slowed down, pre-
vented the derailment and the
killing of his passengers.
1T was not the board of direc-
tors, efficiency expert, or the
! ladies' and gentlemen who draw
/ dividends without working, that
saved the lives of those passeng-
ers. 1t was the eye Of that en-
gineer, who is constantly told by
/ railroad owners and their news
papers that the way to make rail
roads prosperous is to cut the pay
Of railroad workers.
THE travelling public might
remember that"
High Efficiency OF Train Service
/ Employees.
In 1915, on 10000 miles Of our
American railroads our passenger en-
/ gineers and passenger tiremen, con-
ductors, 1agmen, brakemen, telegraph
operators and switehmen, handled
four hundred million people and never
lost the life of a single passenger.
The Union Pacific that year handled
nine million ngers--and
never lost life. That certainly shows
the skill and efficiency of our train
service men. the men who direct and
the men who perform the work and
help to keep the great organization
known as a railroad in such high class
operating condition--the men who
handle directly and indirectly l00,-
100000 people without the loss Of the
/ life of a single passenger.
My friends, it is not the operating
officials of the railroads that are Gre
ating and developing this trouble be-
/ tween railroad employees and the
American people, it is the bankers of
| New York City that do not know any
thing about actual, practical railroad
ing but who want the Adamson Law
repealed because they feel that il in
terferes with their dividends. ZAP
plause.)
My friends, those are things the
American people should know, and the
! American people would not wish to
! disturb the great systems of railroads
in this country and perhaps bring
about conditions that would not be
to the best interests of the country at
large.
NOW, my lIleuuo, lie great tIouult
with the world today is the lack of the
true, Christian spirit---the same
trouble from which it has suffered
from time immemorial--the failure
of people to live up to-to practice the
Golden Rule--to do unto others as
they would wish to be done by.
| will read you a short article on
what Ex-Governor Woodbridge n.
Ferris of Michigan had to say in this
connection:
Business may expect strikes If
men do not receive reasonable
wages and work reasonable hours
in order to allow them TO crafty
their basic instincts such as love
of play and of parenthood," was
the assertion made by former
Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris
of Michigan, speaking at lunch
con Of the Executive Club.
1--WE need to get a real eoncep-
ton of what Labor should receive
and then pay it," he declared.
THAT would do away with
strikes" The speaker said he
| favored the proht-sharing plan
and closer relations between EN-
ployer and employee. He believes
the S-hour day should be the
maximum Of working time.
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