Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-18
IMPORTANT FACTS
THAT THE PUBLIC
OUGHT 10 KNOW

OUGHT IL KNOW
Increases in passenger rates,
freight rates, Pullman rates and Puli
man surcharge rates were granted 10
the railroads by the Interstate Com
mesce Commission, and these ieTeases
were put OF the travelling pubic.
On July lst, 1921, the 1 nited States
Railroad Labor Board decision No. I47
reduced the railroad employees wages
II per cent. Did the pubic get any
part of TINS reduction? No. MOI!
On August 10, 1921, the United
States Railroad Labor Board IN decis-
ion ~, reduced the shopcratts en-
ployes further reduction OF 10 per
cent Did the travelling public re-
eeiye any part Of this reduction! No!
Noll
On July 1st, 1922, the L nited States
Labor Board in decision No. 1896,
again reduced the shopcraft employees
a further reduction OF Y per cent.
A total reduction of 81 per cent in
their wages within one year.
Ask yourself the following ques-
tons:
/. Have the passenger rates been
reduced "a per cent?
2. Have the freight rates been re-
duced "a per cent?
3. Have the high salaries of rail-
road officials been reduced "a per
cent?
4. Has the price of rent been re-
duced "a per cent?
D. Have the taxes been reduced 81
per cent?
q Hoe fIa 81 raat ca#.. Fa,a hao,, ~.
duced "a per cent?
Z. Has flour been reduced "a per
cent?
8. Has your gas been reduced "a
per cent?
o. Has your electric light bill been
reduced "a per cent?
TO- Did you ever read a decision
that the salary of the Labor Board
has been reduced "a per cent. They
only receive 100000 each per year,
$4,000 per day, or $500 per hour, and
the railroad employe helps pay this
board that cut the wages of one class
of employees to 2S cents per hour.
Do you know that during the last
six months of 1921 the total pay roll
slash, including the lay-offs, was
running at the annual rate of Zone
billion, three hundred million dollars)
per year?
Do you know that eleven railroad
presidents draw more salary than the
President of the United. States, a
total of 1856, 571.06; an average of
$79,701.97, or $1,000 per hour for
four hour day? Do you know that
twelve other rail road officials and
attorneys draw salaries amounting to
S67O,96O, an average of $4,000 per
year?
Do you know that forty-eight rail-
road officials and attorneys draw a
total of $1,5S6, $50 per annum, an
average of $33,044 per year, and do
you know that the grand total of the
annual salaries of these seyenty-one
railroad officials and attorneys is
$3,022, 901.06?
Do you know that $4,000 individ-
uals, families and estates own and
control One Hundred and Twenty Bill
lion Dollars, or third of the Ma
tional Wealth?
Page rs, U. S. II. II. Labor Board
Decision dissenting opinion reads:
THE rates of pay established under
this decision are not based upon the
human needs of the hundreds of
thousands of families involved. They
are insufficient to provide these fam
lilies with the absolute essentials.
The earnings of this large group of
railroad workers will not provide the
father of a family with as much
food as is allowed convicts in the Cook
County, Illinois, Jail"
Can you blame the shop crafts for
refusing to accept decisions that are
so unfair and unjust? The shop craft
employees have accepted decision after
decision which were unjust. Did the
railroads do this? MOI No! Eighty
two railroads accepted only decisions
that suited them and you do not read
of these railroads as outlaws in the
daily press.
Help the railroad workers maintain
a living wage.
Railroad men drew on an average
81 10000 lest year.
Harding's department set a mini
mum of $4,000.
JEWELS department set mini
mum of $2,60000.