R A IL R O A D
WAGES
Shall they be determined by
industrial Warfare or
Federal In q u iry?
To the American Public:
D o you believe in arbitration or indus­
trial warfare?
The train employes on all the railroads
are voting whether they will give their leaders
authority to tie up the com m erce o f the
country to enforce their demands for a 100
million dollar wage increase.
The railroads are in the public service—
your service. This army of employes is in
the public service— your service;
You pay for rail transportation 3 billion
dollars a year, and 44 cents out of every
dollar from you goes to th£ employes.
On all the Western railroads in 1915, seventy-five per cent of the
train employes earned these wages (lowest, highest and average
of all) as shown by the pay rolls—
Passenger
Range
Ra
Engineers.
Average
$1747
$2195
3094
Freight
Range
Yard
Range
Average
$1537
$2071
3076
Average
$1056
$1378
2445
Cnlutori
1543
2789
1878
1454
2933
1935
1151
2045
1355
Firemen .
1053
2078
1317
751
2059
1181
418
1552
973
Brakemen.
854
1719
967
874
1961
1135
862
1821
1107
The average yearly wage payments to all Western train em­
ployes (including those who worked only part of the year) as
shown by th e 1915 payrolls were—
Passenger
Engineers. • • • • . $2038
Conductors • * • • • 1772
Firemen
1218
Brakemen. e e . e e
921
Freight
Yard
$1737
1624
973
1000
$1218
1292
832
1026
A 100 million dollar wage increase for
men in freight and yard service (less than
one-fifth o f all employes) is cqual to a 5 per
cent advance in all freight rates.
T he managers of the railroads, as trustees
w for the public, have no right to place this
burden on the cost o f transportation to you
without a clear mandate from a public tri­
bunal speaking for you.
T he railroads have proposed the settle­
ment of this controversy either under the
existing national arbitration law, or by refer­
ence to the Interstate C om m erce Com m is­
sion. This offer has' been refused by the
em ployes’ representatives.
Shall a nation-wide strike or an
investigation under the Gov­
ernment determine this issue?
National Conference Committee of the Railways
ELISHA LEE, Chairman.
P. R. A L B R IG H T , G en 9l M a nager,
L.
C.
E.
8.
P.
G.
C.
E.
A tlantic Coast Lin#» Railroad,
W . B A L D W IN , Gen*l M anager,
Central o f G eorg ia Railw ay.
L. B A R D O , Gen*l M a nager,
New Y o r k , New Haven & H artford R a ilroa d.
H. C O APM A N , V ice-P resident,
Southern Railw ay.
E. .C O T T E R , G en'l M anager,
W abash Railw ay.
E. C R O W L E Y , Asst. V ice-President,
New Y ork Central R ailroad.
H. EMERSON* Gen 7 M anager,
Great N orthern Railw ay.
H. EW IN G , G e n 7 M anager,
P h ilad elp hia & R ea din g Railway.
W. GRICE, Asst, to P resident,
C hesapeake & O h io Railw ay.
BUTTEVILLE BRIEFS
The moving picture show which
was given in the Grange hall, Satur­
day evening was well attended.
Mr. and
Penrod drove to Hub-
hard Sunday.
Miss Verna Cooley, who Las he. n
visiting her sister Cora Tor the l'art
week, returned to her home at Salem
last fatuujay
Miss Mir.oie Dodge
alten led
chur< h and Sunday school at rargo
Sunday.
Mrs. W. W. Huffstutter and Miss
Ellen Graham drove to Canby last
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Eberman have
returned to the farm after spending
the winter and spring at seaside,
Everyone is glad to see them back in
AURORA
OREGON
Half-Ton Commercial Cars
F ou r C ylin der M od els
T ou rin g Car, 7-passenger
• , .
R oadster, 3-passenger
• . 4 .
Landau-R oadster, 3-passenger « .
$875
850
1150
Six Cylinder Models
T ou rin g Car, 7-passenger
•
Roadster 3-passenger
. .
L andau-R oadster, 3-passenger
Coupe, 4-passenger * * * ,
Sedan, 7-passenger * * * *
L im ousine, 7-passenger . .
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Hop News
(Continued from page 2)
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$1085
1060
1350
16C0
1675
2500
F.O. B.
Panel Delivery Car
# • • • «
Express 6 o d y
* « « * • • •
Station and Baggage W agon
•
850
875
One-Ton Commercial Trucks
Open Express, complete
• , $1200
1250
Stake Body, complete
• • ,
Bus, 16-pass., full equipment
• 1400
Detroit
160,000 bales, that being the high rec-
| ord for Oregon in 1906. The hop pro-
| duction o f Oregon since its infancy is
; as follows:
IVAN DIMICK’S GARAGE
ially in the country between Indepen- Year
Bales
dence and Salem. Nevertheless there '1880 ____________________
1935
C . W . K O U N S, Gen 7 M a n ag er,
are said to be occasional yards there ! ig g i_____ _______ ____________ 2 616
A tch ison , T o p e k a & Santa Fe Railway*
which show every sign of a crop of ■ lgg2 _____ _ __
____________ 3 791
H. W . M cM ASTER, Gen 7 M anager,
W h eelin g and Lake Erie Railroad*
3000 pounds to the acre.
1883
_________
—
4,664
N JD. MAHER, V ice-P resident,
N orfolk and W estern Railway.
The United States Department of 1884 ____ ____ ________________ .. 10,902
JAMES RUSSELL, G en 7 M anager,
Commerce has published a bulletin 1 8 8 5 - - . . . . - : - . . - . . . - ___________ 7,308
D enver & R io G rande R ailroad.
which estimates that there will be a 1886 - SI1 _ . J— I - ____ — ______11,549
A. M. SCH O Y ER, Resident Vice-Preê»,
Pennsylvania Lines West.
____ _______ 11,943
shortage of 1,000,000 pounds of hops in 1887— -
W. L. SE D D O N , Vice-President,
Australia this year. If this deficiency 1888..------ ------------------- - - - - ------15,019
Seaboard A ir L ine Railway.
A. J. STON E, V ice-P resident,
is made up by importations, the hops : 1889---------— — — ------ .---------- 16,9081
Erie R ailroad.
j are subject to a duty of 12c a pound in 14890------ - ----- - - - - - ------ ------------ 18,600
G . S. W A ID , V ice-Pres. & G en'l M anager,
I that country. Tasmania, an" island on {*^91— -------------------------------------18,500
Sunset Central Lines.
the Australian coast, is the only part 4892------------------------------ ---------- 25,400
! o f Australia that grows hops in large ¡1893.-— -------— - ------------- ------ 37,250
Misses Elsie Kinyon, Cora Cooley, quantities, the crop last year being 4894-----------— ---------------- ------- 63,000
Ellen and Ida Graham, Fannie Iv in - i 2,000,000 pounds. Tasmania growers 4 8 9 5 ..-------- jy —----------------- ------- 99,500
yon, Mrs. W. W. Huffstutter, little I usually receive 30 cents a pound
48 9 6 ------------ - - - - - ---------------56,000
Donald Huffstutter. Messrs \rchie more for their hops, but the big crop 4897— _— ---- . . . -----------. . . . . . . 75,000
McCulley, Ernest and Herbert Schulz last year, together with heavy importa-1 ^-^8—
-------------. . . . . ----- -------71,250
, Verdon Johnson, Wm. Matthieu, tions, demoralized the market and 1899— _____ . . . __________ ___ - 82,300 I
Glenn Richardson, W aldo Huffstu'.- prices fell to 10 cents in spite o f the 1900 ______ . . . . _______________ 80.000 !
ter, Oscar Lindquist, Wm. Campbell, heavy duty, and the fact that it cost 1901—
__— _____ I 71,0001
____ — __________ 86,000|
; Roy Baker, Fred Scheurer, Frank 17 or 18 cents to put hops on the mar­ 1902—
_— _____ — ______ 88,000 j
.Hubbard and Ernest Bauman.
ket there.
The Tasmanian growers 1903
____, _________ .1____ 88,000
I Mrs. Andrew Johnson has? been are now trying to induce the Austral- j 1904
117,000
spending a few days with Mr/!. Chas. lan government to raise the import Ì905— ......... i . . . . ____— —
1906 ___________________..— 160,000 j
¡Goudreau of Canby.
duty from 12 to 24 cents.
1907— ____ _______— ______ ...136,000
The Portland Telegram’ s hop expert 1 9 0 8 .......___ ____ _____ ___ . . 92,000 I
Those wonderful picture stories “ The breaks out with this prediction: ‘ ‘This I 1909— _____ __________ _______ 88,500 j
[ Black Box” and the “ Girl of Mystery” j year’ s hop crop will probably be equal ! 1910
__
_ ...
_ 94 000
j (Lucille Love), which are shown a tjto th e highest yields ever recorded,’ ’ ¡I 911_____ _____________________ 100,000
| Giesy s Hall on Liberty street, near the then going on to say,
with almost an j J912 _ _ r _______________________ 117,0001
telephone office, are growing more in- entire absence o f lice and meld, th e |1913 _ "
______ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 5 2 , 0 0 0 1
t e s t i n g each Sunday.
Besides two prospects could not be better for a ¡1914
____ _____________ 124 000 !
I reels for each o f these plays there are] bumper crop. The period from now 1915
. . . .
_ . .110 000 i
always three more good reels every | until picking begins, the first week in !
[ e . „ d
nieht. Admission 5 cents t.n I Sont.PmhPi- mierht hrino- sn™
Such forecasts o f the hop crop as the;
¡Telegram’ s prediction of 160,000 fori
all, for the best show in the Valley.
1916 are . not only misleading, but abso- |
The Delineator, 1 year, $1.50; 2 ers are not expecting anything to hap-
pen
to
prevent
a
record
yield
from
improbable—and amusing. The
years, $2.00. Obsever office.
every hop-producing district.” While ; Telegram makes itself ridiculous with.
The Observer, McCalls magazine, it seems probable that this year’s crop such Preposterous predictions,
and Etude (m usic) all 1 yr...... $2.75 may eqUai that
last year, now fixed i
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AU R O R A , OREGON
A. S. GRE1G, Asst, to R eceivers,
St. L ou is & San F ra n cisco R a ilroa d.
this vicinity again.
A . ,« .
, . . .
,
A jolly crowd of nineteen members
of the Butteville Coterie Club had a
picnic last Sunday the 23rd at the
Pudding River. The day was spent
enjoyably in
swimming,
running
races, playing games and partaking
of a bountiful feed. The water was
fine, one would have thought so had
° “ ^ ,SH° meCOmpanion 2 yearS! a t ll0 J°00bales. 8 1 Telegram's pre-
you seen the swimmers duck and for W “ $2.00.
The Observer, Boys’ Magazine, and
Send your order to
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j diction o f the “ highest yield ever re
dive and swim. Those present were: Observer office.
.. $ 2.00
I corded, ’ ’ makes the prediction one o f Hie Housewife, all 1 year
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