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Show R. R. ENGINEERS PAIO MORE THAN GOVERNOR CHICAGO. June 7. Railroad engineers en-gineers In the south draw more pay. than the governor or Tennessee, tho U. S. labor board was told today. The wago of an engineer Is $4,371. The governor receives a salary of J 1,000. Fltrgerald Hall, attorney for the Nashville. Chattanooga, apd SI Louis rnllroad, submitted comparative figures. fig-ures. Swlthchraen draw more wages wag-es than schoolteachers; negro flagmen flag-men Jiitl potfers, get more than university uni-versity professors. "Profpshors tat Vanderbllt unlvor-fclty unlvor-fclty at Nashvlllo are paid $.1,375 a car." said Mr. Hall. "The conductor conduct-or on our Roma-branch lino, 18 miles long, gets $5,735 a year. At the University Uni-versity or Tennessee professors get f 2,621 u jear and negro flagmen on our CoIumbla-DecJiard branch receive J3.1I6 a year)" j Mr. Hall concluded with a plea for' a restoration of rates of pay In ef-1 feet on roads beforo 1920. |