The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 07, 1916, Image 8
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TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH GO.
Telephone courtesy is
just a bit of ordinary
politeness and everyday
kindness that we put into j
our conversation when we
talk by telephone.
Its the face to face brand
of politeness and kindness
used when we're voice to
voice.
It's the same politeness
and kindness that we like to
receive from the other end
of the wire.
Giving a httle thought to tele
phone courtesy and practicing
its simple rules will make the
telephone an even more effi
cient cad for you. "Telephone
as Youd bs Telephoned To,"
BEST PAID MEN
ARE NOW ASKING
FOR HIGHER PAY
Mvernment Officials Fan *o hnd Any
justice In Demands Of lrun Ser
vice Employees.
By Jucison C. Welllver In The Wash
? nyton Times.
AdmlniHirative and legislative aa
ihoril tn Washington uiM taking i
distinctly different views <?f t li*> pre*
out effort of railway trainmen t<>
compel an advancement in their
from any thai ha* been taken
on former occasion**.
it is very apparent that the case
for the employes seeking higher
\1' a ges Is v lowed with less ainlahlllty
than ordinarily In )cf&l?lailve cir
cle* there has recently been serious
talk <>f legislation to prohibit strikes
by employes interstate cairiei'8,
ami to provide a procedure lor cone
pnlsoi \ arbitration.
Tho impression has gained a good
J'-al of ground, that certain favored
classes of employee have lor a long
time been Hystemr tieally aggregating
to themselves most of the increase;!
In wattes. <>
Highest Paid ?lasr Of Men
On behalf of the enginemon and
trainmen who are making 'he do
?mind for a large w aye increase, it irf
urged that, 'he higher cost, of living
Ju.-.lifli s thoir - demand. Vet these
men. Hi * * engineoi's. firemen, conduc
tors and brakenien, arc i\\c highest
paid classes of railroad -labor. The
<iu?*-!j<>n belli;; asked why an engineer
getting an average uago in 1913 of
$."> should require an increase,
while truckmen, who wt re getting
per day, should be left out?
Again, t he average wage of conduc
tors in t'.i 1 3 is shown by the statistics
Of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion to have been $4.39 per day. At
the same time, telegraph operators
and dispatchers were getting an aver
age wage of $_\"2 per day.
IT (he Increased cost of living for
the $1.30 conductor necessitates a
large increase in his compensation,
whore does the $2.53 dispatcher come
in?
No demand Is being urged on be
half of the operators and dispatchers,
and some of the railroads have lately
been intimating vigorously that if a
big additional burden must be laid
on their labor funds they would like
to gi\e the benefit to the poorer paid :
classes of employes.
The truth of the whole business is j
that, as a whole, the railroad em
ployes of the country a'o not very
highly paid as compared t<> other peo- j
pie. A few classes of railroad men
are paid very high wages The most
fortunate of all these classes are the
engineers, firemen, conductors and
hrakeincn.
Rate Rising Rapidly
Not onlv ;irc thci'.e four classes paid
much more liberally than other em
ploves. . but the figures show that
their rate of wanes ban been rising
more rapidly than that of any other
classes"
In 1914 the Interstate Commerce
Commission's report showed the num
ber of railroad employes for the en
tire country to be 1,710,29(1. Out of
this number there were till, 021 en
gineers, (>4.959 firemen, 48,201 con
ductors, and 130,809 other trainmen;
a total of 311,990, or just about one
sixth of the entire number.
At that same date, the number of
trackmen, exclusive of foremen, was
337,451. That is, the number of com
mon laborers on the section was
greater than the entire roll of en
gineers. firemen, conductors, and
brakemen. Yet this huge army ot
trackmen was working for an aver
ace wage of $1.58 per day, while en-,
gineers were getting $5.20, firemen
were net tine: $2.13, conductors were
getting $4.39, and other trainmen
were yetting $3.04. These figures are
th>> commission's averages for the en
tire < ount ry.
Condition Bettered
Largely because they are the best ;
organi/ed classes or railway workers i
and have been unremitting In their.
? leniai. .1- for better wages, these four !
classes have succeeded in bettering I
their condition rapidly and regularly,
at the expense of the other classes,
wfiit 1. are not so highly organized. j
The trainmen, whenever they Insist i
on a wage Increase* have, on their j
side. the tremendously potent ar^u 1
ment that if they don't get what they i
ask. they ran walk out and tie up the
whole railroad system. No other,
class of employes could do this, be- ,
onu.-e no other Is so instantly indis- |
pensable.
How effectively the four favored!
classe- have used their power is!
fchown !y the cold figures. In th? .
ten rrn-- fi<?m 1!?03 to 1912, Inclusive. !
the salaries of general officers in j
crease 1 an average of 17 per cent.
In ih:i* >ame ten-year period the ,
salaries ?>f engineers Increased 2?
per cent
? Durlne: 'hose same ten years the j
wages of general office clerks increas
ed 13 per rent, while the wages of
firemen increased 32 percent.
During those same ten , years the
wages of telegraph operators and dls- !
patch* rs increased 14 percent, while)
those of trainmen other than conduc
tors Increased 36 per cent.
Iinprc?alv? Statement
Hire u mii Impreealve utatcineat ot
lmct about railway wage* that ought
not to escape nt (?*nt lot). There wore
a total of 37. #73 employe* classified
a* switch tendem, crotttdng lendera,
and watchmen These Were receiv
ing in 1912 ai) average of $170 per
day, which was actually tents a
day less than they hud been receiv
iiiK U?u year# earlier.
At that time there were 4S,2ul con
ductor* with whom the utattHtiCM
dealt. The conductor*, therefore,
were only a alight ly more limner
ou* class than the tenders and watch
men; M h.lle the conductor* hud
? had their wage* raided from f;i.38 to
$1.29 pur day. ?hu iunH fortunate
clan* of tei'dor* and watchmen had i
l,o stand a re {Miction from . $1.76 to
$170 per. day .
. If the cost of living ban been stead
ily advancing for conductor*, so a* to
Juntify an increase of 27 per cent in
their wages, it seem* difficult to ex
plain wh.\ that same vont of living
.should have lallen sufficiently to war
rant a deerra.se of 3 per cent in tho
wage* of swiich tender*,- crossing
tenders, and watchmen.
Take i In* single classification of
general office clerk*. There . were
ri7,H?t; of i hi .?>?* according to the of
ficial report A*- m ich larger number
than of tither piuiii.-.<r.s, firemen, or
conductors
These general office clerks were
paid an average (>f $2.21 per day in
1903, and of Gi? in 1912; an In
crea.se rif <>>i|y !'3 per cent in tho ten
year |>< IM>d
Genera! ofi'ice clerks, wiihout ex- J
ception. a !<? ((impelled to live in j
cities, t> In-if ? u-t ot living is high.
Engineers Better Off
Engineers* on the olhvr hand, are
distributed bi\twi?e;) la;^? town* and
ymall lowm- en the average, their
Hying < it < ii n s'.iikvs ought to make
their e\ in-:; i- average considerably!
less than - t; o f office clerks, yet I
tho stati t;. .-bow that engineers ';
have j?-< i .. i i;i the ten-year period i
an incira.? - of l'-I per cent in their
wages, making them aveiage exactly '
$5 per '?> bile general office
clerks 1 s . t \ ?- it-reived an increase of
only l .'I per cent, making t^vm aver
age per day.
One of ihe worst Underpaid classi
fication- oi I allwa ^employes Is that
of the .--tut ion a cents. There are just
about in nan of these in the country,
or nearly as many as the number of
conductors
In I -taiion agents averaged
$1.80 a day. and in 1 ill 2 they had
been rai.-ed to only $2.20 ti '.lay, while
in that same time conductors had j
advanced from S0.3S to $4.20.
That i-. the station agent in 1?12 '
was getting just about half the wages j
of the conductor, and in ten years bo
had had an average increase of 17
per cent, while the conductor's in i
e.rease had been 27 per cent.
Here are two of the most numer
ous claj-ses of railway employes:
Trainmen, other than engineers, .
firemen, and conductors, numbered
136,809. while trackmen numbered j
337.451. The siatistics show that the
trackmen were getting in 1903 an
average of $1.31 per day, and in 1912 .
an average of $l.."?n per day, an in
crease of t i per cent.
What Others Got
On the other hand, t.he classlflca
S lion of other trainmen was getting in
1903 $2.17 per day. and in 1912, $2.96
per day, an increase of 3G per cent.
In percentage, this is the largest ad
vance received by any single class of
railway employes during this decade.
A general survey of wage condi
tions in the railway service and in
other industries, it is believed, would
show that in the last fifteen years
the highly organized and favored
classes of railway wage earners have
had their Incomes increased more
than almost any other class of work
ers In the country, while the much
more numerous, but less effectively
organized classes of railway workers
have probably received rather less
increases than other Industrial work
ers in general,
In view of the strong feeling that
these most fortunate, c lasses of the
railway employes are now making
excessive and unreasonable demands,
attention is now being called as
never before to these general dis
< repancies. There is a strong dis
position to Inaugurate a general and
sweeping ini vesication of the whole
question of railway wages with a
view to establishing some sorj of pub
lic regulation not unlike that already
applied to railroad rates, in the in
terest of employes and public alike.
Meanwhile, there is a marked indis
position to extend further favors to
those classes already most highly
1 favored, at the expense . of other
classes of employes who appear to be
! getting very low wages.
.Four national -railroad unions
threaten to. (it- up every steam
road in the country. The num
ber of employee* involved may
total 400,000. They seem to
have it in their power to stop
all freight and passenger traf
flc on ?50,600 miles of track.
We havn never had a strike
of such Feope and magnitude
It would paralyze all American
industry and commerce and ex
port trade. A nation of 100,
000,000 people would stand
still, while its biggest industry
fought out a question of wages
and hour*. A deadlock would
be Inconceivably destructive ?
Ban f or (Me.) Nows.
? r -..nil.? ? p ,
< liiuixe of Venue For IleihuiM*.
Tin* case of Willie Hot hunt, i-harK*
ml with innrtliT, tun hssuuhmI a now
asiK^ t with the tfranthiK l?.v Ju<l*e J no.
s \\ iU<ui jit .Manning' on T??wil8J| 111
Hi? Clnivniloii rOuVlty euurt of a cluuitft?
?if venue from Clari'inlon to. Ian* coun
ty. wlnuo lli(> rase will la* t rhil In the
rhvult eotirt, Solicitor St Oil ?ske<l that
It la* removed t?? WllllaiiMhurtr county
for trial, while Messrs, tHlfnol oftu
for trial. while Messrs, Clifton and
M oi.se, the <h?feiulaut'# attorneys, re
i|iicst<>t| that it h<> moved (o Sumter
count v. .Indue Wilson deeldcd on U*(!
<ount.\ and mimed that us the i?Wuv
tor i in1 trial.
This ease 1ms ni 1 meted a tfi'eat <h*al
of attention throughout Ihr State*, es
I >? ?? (ii 1 1 v In this MM-lloh. as it has heen
in i hi* Supreme < Saul on l|?|?euls a
u i i i n I r of times ami has hrouuht out
a number of iuteresj invc leva I lailuts.
Sumter Item.
IJNIVISBHm OF HOl'TH CARQ.
UNA SCHOLARSHIP AND KN.
TKAN?K EXAMINATION.
The I'nlverslty ??r South CuMht* 0f.
fl>ru a TOttCHOr'l* Scholar ship to (1|u.
\ 01)0 B man from each rounty. r|?,
t?c)>o)ftr*Uli> worth sum. i? mm~
Miul exemption from ull fees, jitooMWc
litu' Jo $i$8;oo.
Thf examination will 1h? UelU ja the
eounty Hoat Friday, .J uly the 14th! 1016.
!?ieii??ntl ontraneo examinations will t*
hot*! (it the ?a mo tliuc for all atudenU,
The i'nlvoi'Hlty offers Kivjit iu|\hu.
ta?|t'H, VarU't! courses of study in
seleneo, history, law nut I huKlucs*.
Wrlto at onee for Hit Application blnnk
?? THK I'KKSIDKNT,
I'nlvcrsUy of South CarollnH,
Columbia, S. C.
N 10-1 MU
\Vith several hundred makers of autompb!k:; Hr,
America. live Kord factory turns out more than one
halt' of the entire finished product. Because the
worth of Ford cars as dependable, money - saving
utilities has been demonstrated beyond all (pies
lion, the demand is constantly increasing*. Order
yours NOW. Runabout $390; Touring Car $410;
Coupelet $590; Town Car $G10 ; Sedan $740. All
prices i'. o, b. Detroit, On sale at
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Phone 140 CaradfMl, SroBr
United States Tires "R" Tread
AT REDUCED PRICES
30 xS PLAIN TREAD 8.53 NON SKID $8.95
30x3** PLAIN TKKAI) 11.10 NON SKID 11.65
32x3* 2 PLAIN TKEAD 12.75 NON SKID 13.40
:*:< \ 4 PLAIN TKKAI) 18.20 NON SKID ; .19.15 ,
31x1 PLAIN TKKAI) 18.?0 NON SKID 10.50
\VL IIAVK ONLY A LIMITED Nl'MliKK AT THE ABOVE PRICE.
ACT OI'K'K KKFOKE THEY ARK ALL GONE.
Lewis & Christmas, cash grocers
Dodge Brothers Cars
Can be bought on time payments.
Come in and let us explain
plan to you.
t
Camden Motor Co.
DEALERS
SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. CO.
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SUNDAY EXCURSIONS
....TO....
COLUMBIA AND RETURN
$1.25 ? Rate from Camden ? $1.25
Tickets good going on train No. 17 and returning
on train No. 18. Subject withdrawal'
without notice.
Call on Seaboard Agent for further information.
C. W. SMALL, Division Passenger Agent, Stvannafc, &?