Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

RAILROAD WAGES Shall they be determined by Industrial Warfare or Federal Inquiry? To the American Public: Do you believe in arbitration or industrial warfare? The train employes on all the railroads are voting whether they will give their leaders authority to tie up the commerce of the country to enforce their demands for a 100 million dollar wage increase. The railroads are in the public service—your service. This army of employes is in the public service—your service. You pay for rail transportation 3 billion dollars a year, and 44 cents out of every dollar from you goes to the employes. On all the Eastern Railroads in 1915, seventy-five per cent of the 2 train employes earned these wages (lowest, highest, and average of all) as shown by the payrolls— PMtMftr Freight Yard Raaaa Avw» Range Average Rango Average "1704 1128 1762 1108 888 15H 873 1085 The average yearly wage payments to all E; stern train em» ployes (including those who worked only part of the yecr) as shown by the 1915 payrolls were— Paaanngnr Freight Yard Engineerssl796 $1546 $1384 Conductors 1724 1404 1238 Firemen 1033 903 844 Brakemen 1018 858 990 A 100 million dollar wage increase for men in freight and yard service (less than on’e-fifth of all employes) is equal to a 5 per cent advance in all freight rates. The managers of the railroads, as trustees for the public, have no right to place this burden on the cost of transportation to you without a clear mandate from a public tribunal speaking for you. The railroads have proposed the settlement of this controversy either under the existing national arbitration law, or by reference to the Interstate Commerce Commission. This offer has been refused by the employes’ representatives. Shall a nation-wide strike or an investigation under the Government determine this issue? National Conference Committee of the Railways ELISHA LEE, Chairman. A. S. GREIG, Asst. to --ir'r —, P. R. ALBRIGHT, Gen’l Monogwr, »*• * San Frapeioco Hallroad. Atlantic Coast Una Railroad. Q. W . KOUNS, Gon 7 Manager, I* W. BALDWIN, Gen 7 Jfcuuagvr, Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fa Railways Central of Georgia Railway. H w McMABTEHt C. L. BARDO, Gan'l Managar, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad. Now York, New HavanA Hartford Railroad. M n ... ’Z, K. H. COAPMAN, Vlra-PraaiAant, Southern Railway. Norfolk and Western Hallway. I. E. COTTER, Gen 7 Managar, Wabash Railway. Denver d Rio Grande Railroad. P. E. CROWLEY, Am V ica-Pra.ldan», M - SCHOYER, Resident Fice-Praa, New York Central Railroad. Pennsylvania Unes West. G. B. EMERSON, Gen 7 Managar, *• 1- SEDDON, Piee-President. Great Northern Railway. Seaboard Air Uno Railway. C. H. EWING, Gan'l Managar, A. J. STONE, Floe-President, Philadelphia & Reading Railway. Erie Railroad. K. W. GRICE, Aralto PraaUant, G. 8. WAID, Vlea-Pma. M Gaal H Chesapeake A Ohio Railway. Sunset Central Lines. " U

Hiking 475 miles from Washington to get a job, a man carried his bed with him in a cart. He got the job in Bridgeport, Conn. Notice of Steel Bridge Letting No. 2898. Notice is herby given that on Tuesday, August 8, 1916, the board of commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Kankakee township over the Powers Ditch, on new highway east and west between sections 16 and 21,

township 32 north, range five west, one-fourth mile south* and one-half mile west of Dunn’s station, Jasper county, Indiana. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the auditor’s office. All bids to b« on file by 2 o’clock of said date and to be accompanied by bond and affidavit according to law. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the board of commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana. JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County, Indiana. .115-22

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