Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1920 — INCREASED WAGES TOOK 97% OF INCREASED RATES. [ARTICLE]

INCREASED WAGES TOOK 97% OF INCREASED RATES.

Increases In freight and passenger rates made during federal control amounted to $1,835,000,000 when applied to the traffic moved up to July 81, 1919, while the Increases In wages applied to the number of employs** and the hours or days worked In July, 1919, amounted to #1,774,800,000, or VI per cent of the revenue from th* tocreased rates, according to a statement compiled by the Interstate C*aamerce Commission at the request at Senator'Em Smith of South Carolina and presented by him in the ■*•- ate on December 20.