Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1913 — Something About Railroad Work and the Salaries. [ARTICLE]

Something About Railroad Work and the Salaries.

A. W. Thompson, third vice president and chief operating officer of the Baltimore & Ohio, has (galled attention to the fact that a young man may enter the railroad service as a brakeman and i earn as much money as a graduate of an engineering school. “A young man who has had no preliminary training may become a railroad brakeman and get SBS a month salary, which is usually paid graduates of engineering schools when they start with a road,” said Mr. Thompson. “And this same man who begins as a brakeman may look forward to making more than $1,900 a year as a conductor. We have conductors who earn $240 a month, which c is as much as . a professor in college makes. We have in the Baltimore & Ohio service sixty-eight trainmen, who now make, without the recent award of-the arbitration board, $1,935 a year, and 1,474 trainmen who make $1,273 a year. The Pennsylvania road has 1,146 men who make $1,962 a year and a proportionate number who make more than $1,200.”