PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. Jot 
CLASS. NuMBEnr. AveracE Dalry 
EaARNINGs. 
es 
, General Officers ... S Ee ch 4,890 is 39 9 
Other Officers __... A! ~. och 3,830 xa Phe 4 
General Office Clerks... : wen Gea a ae 
Station Agents (station- master Ss) ... S049 12 
Other Station Men ix 18 wee See 6 9 
Engine Men (drivers) ... $24 ai) ))aos87 i 2 
Firemen... 432 ie? Lovo Sagise 8 6 
Conductors (guards) vy = sak #) SO 7. 
Other Train Men oe un a. G3cGis fae | 
Machinists er és <2 2,0) Ses ea 
Carpenters att op or $00) 14740 8 4 
Other Shopmen ... >a veh) 91-415 uk 
Section Foremen (gangers) fac copia, a ae bol 
Other Trackmen (repairers)... Beal 7 Abaya 4 10 
Switchmen, Flagmen and Watchmen 43,768 7 2 
Telegraph Operators and Despatchers 21,452 Eb 
Employees (account floating equipment) 6,409 Beg 
All other Emloyees and Labourers .... 90,725 6 10 
Total... at ae re AM { 823,476 
The amount involved is £97,000,000 per annum. The gene- 
ral average afforded by these rates is about £120 per annum, 
which is practically the same as in these colonies.* 
The hours of railway men have to be considered along with 
their wages. In many countries ten is the standard number 
of hours per day. 
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES. 
The rules of the railway service require men to live at points 
convenient for their duties, and also render them subject to re- 
moval from place to place as occasion requires; their hours of 
duty are in some branches arranged in shifts ; extra shifts must 
be worked whenever directed, with or without previous notice. 
Night work and some Sunday duty are unavoidable, and work at 
high pressure at Christmas and other holiday seasons is in- 
evitable. The occupation is distinctly of a dangerous character, 
carrying extra insurance premiums. 
In these and other ways the service taxes the men severely, 
but the sense of urgent need to supply the pressing requirements 
of the community—combined with highly developed organisa- 
tion, in which the men are trained to work together intelligently 
—enables them to fulfil their mission. 
Strikes and lock-outs are practically unknown. 
The great regularity of employment in railway service is 
almost proverbial, and holds good even in America. In many 
~ Increased traffic has brought up the number of U.S. railway men, at the time of 
publication, to a million. 
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