Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — NOT HARD TO ANSWER. [ARTICLE]

NOT HARD TO ANSWER.

If one million railroad laborers are given an increase by the railroad administration averaging $25 a month, as stated, that would mean an increase of $25,000,000 a month pr $300,000,000 a year in wages that the railroads must pay. The railroads under the first six months of so-called government control lost about $30,000,000 —or was it $300,000,000? (it is getting so hard, these days, to keep track of a few more millions). But if it were only thirty millions, in spite of increased rates, that would be a loss of $60,000,0000 a year to be added to the $300,000,000, or a total of $360,000,000 —a rather tidy’ sum, say we, being as it is something over a third of a billion dollars. Now, not in a spirit of complaining at all, but merely for information and in order to keep the records clear, we should like to ask who is to make up the annual loss of this kind? We pause for a reply.—Muncie Press.