Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Railway Agent and Station Agent, 1894: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Ticket and Freights Agents, and the Traffic Departments of the Railway Service
All these things are common enough to justify the existence, among many fair-minded people, of the feeling that railroad labor is often unfairly dealt with; but let us look for a momentatthe other side of the shield. On many railroads the service is conducted so smoothly that the public seldom hears of 'any trouble. On all the roads the disturbances are among the freight conductors and brakemen almost exclusively. This class includes the ao-called switchmen. The station agents and many other classes never strike, though their pay is smaller, in proportion to the skill demanded, than that of train men. The pas senger train men generally do not join the freight men.
The Pennsylvania road rarely has a strike. It has an insurance department through which the company grants the employees actual gra tuities of or a year, besides affording incidental benefits. The Baltimore Ohio has a similar department, older than the Pennsylvania's. The Chicago, Burlington 8: Quincy and the Philadelphia Reading have started these departments. The Boston Albany and other roads. Employing to men each, have had no strike of any consequence in many years. A number of prominent companies pay premiums to the foremen of track repairs. The Fall Brook railroad pays premiums to the freight conduc tors.
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