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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
6
A 1913 Interstate Commerce Commission report shows engineers and firemen earning higher wages than conductors and station agents, while trackmen and other train crews trail. Despite rising costs, many lower paid railway workers see slower gains, fueling calls for public regulation of wages.
Four national railroad unions threaten to tie up every steam road in the country. The number of employees involved may total 400,000 and could halt freight and passenger traffic on 250,600 miles of track. A nation of 100,000,000 would stand still as wages and hours are disputed.
Gwen recalls tense past with Clifford Bigelow as they share a Boston-bound train ride hosted by Aunt Adelaide. Aunt Adelaide schemes to pair Gwen with Cliff while Gwen reveals her Aunt’s money trust demands and Cliff’s wary greeting.
An editorial excerpt from the Washington Times argues against union demands for higher wages tied to shorter train runs. It contends railroads invested to handle heavy tonnage, and halving trains would raise operational costs, worsen efficiency, and threaten the system, likening the idea to regressing to stagecoaches and ox carts.
The article outlines minimum daily wages for engine engineers, firemen, conductors, and brakemen in through and local freight service, plus Mallet engine rates. It notes yard and foreman rates, overtime, and potential earnings on fast freights, with example long division runs showing higher actual pay despite shorter hours.
A New Orleans Times-Picayune passage argues that the public must be involved in railroad affairs and warns that without arbitration brotherhoods will challenge conservatism. It stresses the government’s duty to keep national highways open for commerce.
A March National Magazine extract argues a general railroad walkout would paralyze the economy. Cities face food shortages, farmers lose markets, plants idle, and millions lose income as transport stops cripple nearly all industries.
The Detroit Free Press argues railroads cannot fund large payrolls and big material buys simultaneously. If unions force higher wages, railroads must cut planned purchases, risking steel mills going slack and undoing a nascent business boom with broad costs nationwide.
The arrival of huge locomotives and heavy trains, amid wage protests by freight trainmen, coincides with fewer employee deaths and injuries. Killed in service fell from 620 in 1911 to 452 in 1914 while injured declined from 6601 to 4823.
The New York World argues against pursuing hours and wages disputes to claim workers are entitled to excessive gains from employers. It says such methods fail to promote workers’ long term welfare.
Australian bushmen prefer natural caves or overhangs for shelter. If unavailable they gather small trees and bushes, weave branches together, and cover with grass to create a grass roof that keeps off the rain.
The ad claims rheumatism stems from blood impurities and promotes Scott's Emulsion as nature's blood maker. It states cod liver oil improves general health, strengthens organs to expel impurities, and upbuilds strength, urging readers to refuse alcoholic substitutes.
A compact observed proverb note on thrift and shopkeeping wisdom attributed to George Chapman.
A 100 reward claim backs Hall's Catarrh Cure, advertised as a constitutional treatment for catarrh. The notice touts internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, promising strength and constitution building. Testimonials are promised and Toledo based Cheney & Co is listed as sellers.
A compact quoted antebellum caveat on virtue as a concept, comparing virtue to a mechanism that makes death feel worse and to a will without action, concluding that virtue is its own punishment.
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