Canadian National Railways Lines in Canada Lines in United States: Canadian National lines in New England Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific Railway Champlain & St. Lawrence Railroad United States & Canada Railroad International Bridge Central Vermont Railway, Inc. Grand Trunk Western Railroad Muskegon Railway & Navigation Co. Vermont & Province Line New York-Niagara Frontier Minnesota & Manitoba Railroad (leased line) Canadian Pacific Railway Lines in Canada Dominion Atlantic Railway Lines in United States: Canadian Pacific lines in Vermont Central of Georgia Railway Louisville & Wadley Railroad Wadley Southern Railway Wrightsville & Tennille Railroad Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey Wharton & Northern Railroad Charleston & Western Carolina Railway Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway Chicago & North Western Railway Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Chicago, Attica & Southern Railroad Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Chicago, Great Western Railway Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Peoria Terminal Co. Clinchfield Railroad Colorado & Southern Railway Columbus & Greenville Railway Delaware & Hudson Railroad Čorp. Greenwich & Johnsonville Railway Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Denver & Salt Lake Railway Detroit & Mackinac Railway Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Railroad Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway Erie Railroad New Jersey & New York Railroad Florida Fast Coast Railway Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Railway Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railroad Georgia & Florida Railroad Great Northern Railway Green Bay & Western Railroad Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad & Coal Co. Illinois Central Railroad Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Illinois Terminal Railroad Indianapolis Union Railway Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway of Mexico Kansas City Southern Railway Arkansas Western Railway Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Lehigh & New England Railroad Lehigh Valley Railroad! Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Louisville & Nashville Railroad Maine Central Railroad Midland Valley Railroad Kansas, Oklahoma & Gulf Railway Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad Mississippi Central Railroad Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. of Texas Missouri Pacific Railroad Doniphan, Kensett & Searcy Railway Gulf Coast Lines: New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway Montour Railroad. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway National Railways of Mexico Nevada Northern Railway New York Central Railroad Chicago River & Indiana Railroad Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Norfolk & Western Railway Norfolk Southern Railway Northern Pacific Railway Northwestern Pacific Railroad Pennsylvania Railroad Pennsylvania & Atlantic Railroad Rosslyn Connecting Railroad Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Long Island Railroad Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines St. Louis Southwestern Railway of Texas San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway Savannah & Atlanta Railway Seaboard Air Line Railway Southern Pacific Co. Texas & New Orleans Railroad Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico Southern Railway Alabama Great Southern Railroad Carolina & Northwestern Railway Cincinnati, Burnside & Cumberland River Railway Danville & Western Railway Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Harriman & Northeastern Railroad High Point, Randleman, Asheboro & Southern Railroad New Orleans Terminal Co. St. Johns River Terminal Co. State University Railroad Woodstock & Blocton Railway Spokane International Railroad Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway Commission Includes Nipissing Central Railway. Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railway Tennessee Central Railway Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis Texas & Pacific Railway Texas Mexican Railway Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway Tremont & Gulf Railway Union Pacific Railroad Union Railway (Memphis) Union Railroad (Pittsburgh) Western Maryland Railway Western Pacific Railroad Western Railway of Alabama Atlanta & West Point Rail Road Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Wichita Valley Railway Winston-Salem Southbound Railway Youngstown & Southern Railway EXHIBIT B EFFECT OF WAGE CHANGES ON HIGHER WAGE BRACKETS IN THE RAILROAD INDUSTRY, 1939-43 Establishment of a minimum wage of 25 cents in the railroad industry in October 1938, and of 30 cents in October 1939, had no great effect upon the rates of pay for job classifications above those respective minimums, as there already existed at that time a substantial differential between the lower common labor rates and the skilled labor rates. The mediated settlement of December 1, 1941, however, established a general minimum rate of 46 cents. The increase of 10 cents per hour (over the statutor rate of 36 cents) was effective for all job classifications from the minimum up to the highest rates, except that the train and engine service forces (who are amon the higher paid classes) received 92 cents per hour. Thus much the sam increase was made in all rates, from the bottom up, and differentials were preserved, or very nearly preserved, at the insistence of the railroad labor organizations. Much the same procedure was followed in 1943. The mediated settlement of December 27 of that year provided in increase of 11 cents in the minimum ra' All job classifications with hourly rates of 47 cents but less than 57 cents wer increased 10 cents per hour; while all job classifications with hourly rates of 57 cents or more were increased 9 cents per hour. In this case, the differentials wer slightly reduced by reason of the fact that the lower rated classes received slight greater increases per hour. However, all wage groups involved received a increase closely paralleling that agreed upon for the lowest or minimum wage group. EXHIBIT C.-Average straight-time rate of pay per hour-Selected classes of railroad employees: Railways of class I in the United States, year 1944 1 The rates indicated are average straight-time rates and not minimum rates. They are stated in c per hour. Senator TUNNELL. Mr. Taylor. TESTIMONY OF TYRE TAYLOR, GENERAL COUNSEL, SOUTHER STATES INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL Mr. TAYLOR. I appear on behalf of the Southern States Industru Council, the headquarters of which are in the Stahlman Buildi. Nashville, Tenn. My address is 712 Jackson Place, Washington. Established in 1933, the council's membership is comprised business concerns in the 16 southern States from Maryland to Texa and including West Virginia, Missouri, and Oklahoma. This membership includes all lines of manufacturing and processing, mining, transportation, and related industries and accounts for substantial employment throughout the area. You already have in your report data on the effect of the proposed minima upon costs and prices in the case of three of the South's largest industries-cotton textiles, lumber, and tobacco. I shall not go into this except to offer for the record certain information which, in the case of cotton textiles, may serve to supplement the data already before you and, in the case of lumber, we have some estimates of what the proposed increases would do to the price of furniture. Senator ELLENDER. I don't recall having any testimony from the lumber industry. Senator TUNNELL. I don't think we have had any. (A statement from the Southern Pine Industry appears in the Appendix.) Mr. TAYLOR. Wasn't the table put in the record? Senator ELLENDER. There may have been some data put into the record. Mr. TAYLOR. The increase in costs which would result from 65 cents, 70 cents, and 75 cents. Didn't you put that in the record? Senator ELLENDER. What I had in mind was that we did not have any witnesses. Of course, I think it is imperative that we do have some testimony from the lumber industry. Mr. TAYLOR. I think this did go in [indicating document]. Senator ELLENDER. Yes, I remember putting that in myself. That was to show that an increase in wages would increase the cost of lumber. Mr. TAYLOR. Except for this and except for two recommendations in which we should like to join with the Cotton Textile Institute-we wish to confine ourselves to certain aspects of the problem which, so far as I know, have not been discussed and some, if not all of which, involve important considerations of public policy. For example, the effect of the proposed legislation upon small business. Impact upon small business: The South of course has many large nationally and internationally known industrial establishments. However, as the House Committee on Small Business found after an exhaustive survey of the wartime problems of Southern industry in 1942-43, the overwhelming majority of our plants and companies are comparatively small. And suitably qualified-omitting, for example, financial concerns and some types of industry where the investment or volume of turn-over per worker is extremely high-the number of -mployees indicates the relative resources of a business enterprise. We do not have comparative figures for any particular section of the country, but for the Nation as a whole we find that average earnngs per job by size of firm are substantially larger for the big firms than the small ones. Thus for the period. 1939-43, such averages for period.1939-43, third quarter earnings were as follows: I might say, gentlemen, that while that is something I have been convinced about in my own mind for a long time, and something about which I think the committee might take judicial notice, it is wfully difficult, or I found it so, to obtain any very satisfactory statistics for that. There seems to be a great dearth of data on this subject of earnings by size of a firm, not only for the country as a |