. Electric railway journal . sed cost of specified itemsof expenditure in 1911, 1914 and 1917, as comparedwith the cost as ascertained for 1900 by the Bureauof Labor Statistics, the records for families with in-comes of $1,000 and under $1,100 would be: 1900 1911 1914 1917 (340 Families—Nine Months) Food $349 $457 $509 $764 Clothing 136 151 152 264 Rent 158 211 209 251 Fuel and lighting 44 44 50 90 Sundries 213 243 239 315 Total $900 $1,106 $1,159 $1,684 Increase in 1917 over 1911, 52 per cent.; over 1914, 45 per cent. The average wage of the men involved in Chicago,it is said, is about $90 pe
. Electric railway journal . sed cost of specified itemsof expenditure in 1911, 1914 and 1917, as comparedwith the cost as ascertained for 1900 by the Bureauof Labor Statistics, the records for families with in-comes of $1,000 and under $1,100 would be: 1900 1911 1914 1917 (340 Families—Nine Months) Food $349 $457 $509 $764 Clothing 136 151 152 264 Rent 158 211 209 251 Fuel and lighting 44 44 50 90 Sundries 213 243 239 315 Total $900 $1,106 $1,159 $1,684 Increase in 1917 over 1911, 52 per cent.; over 1914, 45 per cent. The average wage of the men involved in Chicago,it is said, is about $90 per month or $1,080 per year,and the comparison shows that it will take $1,684 ayear to cover the present living cost on the basis of the1900 standard. This result is close to the figure ofthe Bankers Trust Company arising from a percent increase. Moreover, it is added, the April MonthlyReview of the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports theaverage family budget for twenty-four principal citiesin this country to be $1, DIAGRAM NO. 2—CLASSIFICATION OF RUNS ON TYPICAL CLEVELAND LINE UNDER PROPOSED WORKING CONDITIONS be below the going rate for skilled labor, in whichclass the employees place themselves because of theirexercise of skill and assumption of responsibility. Special Data About Chicago From the brief filed by the union men in the casesof the Chicago Surface Lines and the Chicago ElevatedRailways it appears that the surface trainmen arereceiving from 30 cents an hour for the first threemonths up to 39 cents an hour for the fifth year andthereafter; the elevated motormen, 41 cents an hour;the elevated conductors 34 cents an hour and the guards31. cents an hour. On the basis of tables prepared by the Bankers TrustCompany, New York, to show the proper percentageof the salary of employees to be paid as a bonus tooffset the increased cost of living, it is said that thesurface and elevated employees who are receiving from$900 to $1,199 are entitled to an increase of f
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