Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1914 — State Railway Troubles. [ARTICLE]

State Railway Troubles.

Complaints have been made for some time past of the unsatisfactory financial management of the Belgian state railroads, and now the traffic management also appears to have broken down. From all parts of the country there are accounts of delayed passenger trains and of the detention of consignments of freight for three or four days, or even a week, because of the overcrowding of the lines. Various causes are assigned for the breakdown —discontent among the engine drivers, malingering in view of the fact that they receive full pay during Illness, the substitution of inexperienced men for the absentees, promotion'for political reasons, instead of by merit, and the inefficiency of the engines and rolling stock, or neglect to keep them in good condition.