Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Boodlers In Russia, Too. [ARTICLE]

Boodlers In Russia, Too.

The Russian railway expert, M. Ivotlubai, has just published in book form an account of the mismanagement of Russian railways, and of the abuses which naturally result. He states that, owing to the immense salaries paid to the higher officials, the remuneration received by the actual working officials is so insufficient that they would be unable to live unless they supplemented their wages by theft. Despite their low salaries, these men are worked almost day and night, only five or six hours being left them to sleep and rest. During the last Turko-Russian war engineers and firemen were forced to sleep on their locomotives at odd moments, so inadequate was their number to the demands of the service, and switchmen were compelled to be on duty twentysix, twenty-eight and thirty hours In succession. Such inhuman overtaxing of the strength of men could result only in the most defective and perilously careless service, with more accidents and greater loss of life than an? other country in the world.