Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1917 — Year's Casualties Among Switchmen. [ARTICLE]

Year's Casualties Among Switchmen.

At a hearing In the controversy betwen the Switchmen’s union and; certaln railfoads upon which a demand for an eight-hour day was made ItAvgg shown that 2,243 switchmen and yardmen had been killed or injured in the r months of July. August and September, 1915. A table based on* those figures gave 9,732 killed and injured for a year, or about one man,in five among the 45.000 switchmen and yardmen in the United States. The number of killed was placed at 256.