Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1916 — Balks Loan Sharks. [ARTICLE]

Balks Loan Sharks.

To give Its employees the benefit of their wages as soon as possible after they have earned them, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad has announced that hereafter all employees will be paid on the first and fifteenth of each month, instead of on the last of each month, as has been customary. Other southern roads may follow the example. In some sections of the industrial South there is strong sentiment In favor of legislation which will compel railroads and Industrial corporations to pay their employees nt least semimonthly. It is contended that where wages are paid only once a month employees frequently resort to loan sharks to tide them over until the next pay day.