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RAILWAY LABOR’S SHARE
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| Average number employed |
Total compensation |
Average per employee |
Index of wages | |
| 1916 | ||||
| Total | 1,647,097 | $1,468,576,000 | $891.61 | 115.7 |
| Trainmen | 302,572 | 405,396,391 | 1,339.83 | 113.5 |
| All others | 1,344,525 | 1,063,179,609 | 790.75 | 117.4 |
| 1917 | ||||
| Total | 1,732,876 | $1,739,482,000 | $1,003.81 | 130.2 |
| Trainmen | 332,539 | 494,054,923 | 1,485.71 | 125.8 |
| All others | 1,400,337 | 1,245,427,077 | 889.38 | 132.0 |
| 1918 | ||||
| Total | 1,841,575 | $2,613,813,000 | $1,419.34 | 184.1 |
| Trainmen | 346,599 | 643,137,260 | 1,855.57 | 157.2 |
| All others | 1,494,976 | 1,970,675,740 | 1,318.20 | 195.7 |
| 1919 | ||||
| Total | 1,913,422 | $2,843,128,000 | $1,485.89 | 192.8 |
| Trainmen | 318,134 | 632,512,590 | 1,988.20 | 168.4 |
| All others | 1,595,288 | 2,210,615,410 | 1,385.72 | 205.7 |
| 1920 | ||||
| Total | 2,022,832 | $3,681,801,000 | $1,820.12 | 236.1 |
| Trainmen | 356,523 | 890,486,781 | 2,497.70 | 211.5 |
| All others | 1,666,309 | 2,791,314,219 | 1,675.15 | 248.7 |
| 1921 | ||||
| Total | 1,660,617 | $2,765,236,000 | $1,665.19 | 216.0 |
| Trainmen | 297,274 | 636,539,764 | 2,141.25 | 181.4 |
| All others | 1,363,343 | 2,128,696,236 | 1,561.38 | 231.8 |
| 1922 | ||||
| Total | 1,579,000 | $2,634,717,000 | $1,668.60 | 216.5 |
| Trainmen | 301,912 | 671,427,083 | 2,223.92 | 188.4 |
| All others | 1,277,088 | 1,963,289,917 | 1,537.32 | 228.3 |
- ↑ In the three fiscal years ending with June 30, 1914, the average number of men in train service was 322,350, whose average compensation was $1180.70 per annum. The total railway personnel was an average of 1,680,000 persons, whose average compensation was $770.79. These averages are taken the base = 100 in computing the subsequent indicia.
Regardless of the matter of division of compensation among the railway employees it is clear that in the
