. The railway library . Nodrastic retrenchments, no deferred replacements, no postponed im- Statistics of American Railways 385 provements have sufficed to preserve the margin of operating safetyand financial credit between revenues and Railway far as information is available, the figures giving the numberand pay of European railway employes prove that they receive lessthan one-half and often less than one-third the annual compensationpaid to American railway labor, as the following statement shows: Summary Showing Number of Employes, Compensation andAverage Yearly P
. The railway library . Nodrastic retrenchments, no deferred replacements, no postponed im- Statistics of American Railways 385 provements have sufficed to preserve the margin of operating safetyand financial credit between revenues and Railway far as information is available, the figures giving the numberand pay of European railway employes prove that they receive lessthan one-half and often less than one-third the annual compensationpaid to American railway labor, as the following statement shows: Summary Showing Number of Employes, Compensation andAverage Yearly Pay of the Principal European Countries. Country United Kingdom (1911)... German Empire (1910) Austria (1909) Hungary (1910) Russian Empire (1908) France (1908) Italy (State, 1907) Switzerland United States of America. Miles of Employes Railway Number 23,417 608,750 36,740 700,370 13,873 279,034 12,800 130,945 41,888 844,100 24,915 442,790 8,762 127,372 2,740 41,973 236,444 1,690,709 Compensationper Year Ratio toRevenues. *No less than 41,690 of British railway employes are classed as boys. Although these figures are compiled from official and semi-officialsources, they are very far from affording an entirely satisfactoryreflection of actual compensation to railway employes in the coun-tries named. Outside of the German Empire, Austria, Hungary andSwitzerland, the official figures are very incomplete. Pay of British Railway returns made to the British Board of Trade by twenty-seven of the principal railway companies, employing over 90 percent of the total number of railway servants in the United King-dom, for a normal week, the following summary has been com-piled by the Railway News (London) : Period Number Employed in Selected Week Amount Paid in Wages in Selected Week Average Weekly Earnings per Head First week in December1902 449,068448,944446,197449,923458,579479,314459,753459,968463,520472,843 £559,179558,419558,416568,852582,69961S,734574,455583,104596,6096
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