Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1915 — DIVISION OF RAILROAD WORK [ARTICLE]

DIVISION OF RAILROAD WORK

Less Than a Fifth of Employees Are Actually Employed on the Trains. More persons are required to keep railroad tracks in shape than to run trains over them. Also more men are employed in railroad shops than on trains. Those engaged on the trains constitute only 18% per cent of the total railroad employees. Direct trainmen and trackmen together are less than half of all the persons engaged in various groups of railroad employees are here shown: Trackmen 24.5, shops 22.5, on train 18.5, stations, 11, offices 5.5, watchmen* and dispatchers 4.5, all others 14. The employees In various railroad services in 1913 and the total compensation, as compiled by the Bureau of Railway Economics from interstate commerce commission reports are here shown: CompensaNutnber. tion. ■AU employee. 1,815,239 11,373,830.589 Officers .••••••*••• 15,104 42,776,142 Office clerk. 84,267 69,443,296 Station agents ...••••• 37,721 30,016,000 Otter .taUon men.... 167.450 Enginemen 67,026 Firemen 70,477 67,238,331 Conductors 52,086 73,261,603 Other trainmen 146,855 139,409,443 Carpenters 78,654 61,318.197 Other shopmen 271,085 191,645,024 Section foremen ■ 47,737 32.894,238 Other trackmen 376,871 156,806,396 Switch, crossing and watchmen 38,253 *2,422,731 Tele, operators and dispatchers 43,061 36,519,803 AU otters". 260.856 172,476,864 The amount paid out directly in wages and salaries is 44 per cent of the gross revenues of the railroads.