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Show Worthington Says They Are the Highest Paid Workmen New York, July 23. At the morning morn-ing session of the arbitration committee com-mittee today to determine the merits of the wage controversy between the locomotive engineers and the managers man-agers of fifty-two railroads oast of Chicago. B A Worthington, president of tho Chicago and Alton, again took tho stand. He completed his explanation explan-ation of the 115 statistical tables which the railroad managers offered to controvert the claims of the engineers en-gineers for increases in pa estimated estimat-ed at $7,500 a year. He said these tables show a gradual increase in the pay of engineers, who are tho highest paid skilled workmen in the service of the railroads Mr Worthington called attention to the increased cost of operating railroads rail-roads under recent federal laws and requirements of the Interstate Commerce Com-merce commission. He produced tables, ta-bles, showing it will cost the railroads rail-roads $19,103,162 to comply with the laws requiring the Installation of safety appliances. He said the railroads rail-roads did not object to this, the cost is spread over a largo area It costs $ll.SGii,000 a year to observe the 16-hour 16-hour law, and $13,000,000 a year to meet the requirements of the full-train full-train crews, said Mr. Worthington. This law. he explained, compels railroads rail-roads to keep more men on both passenger pas-senger and freight trains than really real-ly is necessary. |