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Show ON A VISIT OF INSPECTION British Railroad Authority in This Country Looking Over the Leading Lead-ing American Systems. W. M. Acworth, the distinguished British railroad authority, is visiting the United States and inspecting several sev-eral of the railroad systems of the East. He is keenly interested in the wage controversy between the railroads rail-roads and the train service employees, which he avers is similar in its general gen-eral aspects to that which led up to the great British railroad strike of 1911. Mr. Acworth is a director of the underground railroads of London and has written a number of books on railroad rail-road development and regulation. He Is no stranger to the United States, having made many trips to this side of the Atlantic, and having been for many years in touch with the railroad situation here. He is a close personal friend of leading railroad officials ol the country. "The war has made heavy drafts upon the railroad workers of Great Britain," said Mr. Acworth in an interview inter-view at New York. "Probably 20 per cent of the railroad operatives are in active service. From the London underground un-derground system, which employed about 25,000 men at the outbreak ot the war, some 8,000 have enlisted. On all the lines somewhat similar conditions condi-tions exist. "The places of those who have volunteered vol-unteered have been filled to some extent ex-tent by keeping older men in service instead of retiring them. On the London Lon-don buses 500 women are employed as conductors. On all the lines forces have been reduced by cutting off a large proportion of the passengei trains. |