Dear Living in America

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 July 1910, Page 4

Dear Living in America

1— — Mr W. B. Brown (president of the New York Central .Railway, says the Now York correspondeniit of the Manchester Guardian on May 2), made an interesting statement aibout the enormous increase m wages made to railway employees on account of tho increased cost'of living in this country. Mr jliwii declared that the railways of the entire Union this vea-r' will have a wage-list of £240,1G6,(i(X), which will constitute a record of the highest wages ever paid by American railways. The. previous record he gave as £210,477,200. Mr Brown has been -instrumental in bringimig ahout this reform and the New York Central has recently made a striking increase ini tho wages of its employees. Many other lines have .followed Inis example, with the result that the railway men will receive tin's year £89,000,000 more than ever hefore. It was 'President Brown who painted out that, though wages were higher in the U.nnted States than in many countries, the cost of living had so greatly increased that employees we no hotter 'off than in countnies where wages were far less. Tho purchashkt value of the dollar had fallen fully 40 per cent, in the last three years, so that evein the hisdior rate f)f wages dbas not meet tho difference m coat of living,