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Show I POINT OF VIEW OF RAILROAD WORKERS. The point of view from which the employe of the railroad company views the tage cuts and situation In the transportation Industry Is set forth In the following editorial from "Labor," the official newspaper of tho railroad unions: "While the United States railroad labor board is slashing the wages of the workers what Ifl happening to the wages of the dollars" "That's a fair question. "When the labor board Is asking more than 100,000 maintenance of way men as a 'patriotic duty' to support, their families on $r6" 04 per year, and more than 250.000 of these workers are told they must get along on an average of $800.50 per year, surely the owners of the railroads may be expect ed to make some sacrifice "The following figures furnish the answer: "During the war the government paid the railroads $906 000,000 a year. "That was the average net operating Income the wages of xtio roads for the three most profitable years of their existence I "Senator Cummins said It was so high "It shocked the moral sense of mankind." He Insisted the roads were getting $200,000,000 a year more than they were entitled to "By its latest decision the interstate inter-state commerce commission has au thorized the roads lo collect 5 per cent on $18,900,000,000 includin seven billions of water or $1,086.8? 000 a year. 1 1 "That's $180,000,000 a year IU than the roads earned during the tsl most prosperous vrars of their ex11' , ence. - "It Is $380,000,000 a year more than the amount Senator Cummins said they should' havc received during the war "When dollars are being treated so generously, don't you think men ar entitled to at least a living wage?" on 1 " lil )M si Monday mr inaug urate a stare undo cUaraway of spring and summer merchandise that is of great importance to every prudent shopper. Tremepdous price concessions have been made to insure its speedy exit. White assortments are broken, selec tions ;! are sufficiently large to provide very tempting choice for the early shopper, uoors open promptly at nine o'clock Monday morning, July 3. ' -J l j i A Season-End Selling Opportune values in women's wraps, suits, silk and wool frocks. It's not the season's end, to he sure, but we are making a final selling. There is such a variety of styles thai no woman need confine her preference to any particular style, and if her size is not to be found in one attractive group, it most assuredly will be in another one just as desirable. de-sirable. Here are garments indispensable to vacationists, as well as to women who look ahead mt fall needs. And every garment is marked at a clearance price. BURT'S ' 1 |
