Report of the Select Committee on Railway Staff Salaries (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report of the Select Committee on Railway Staff SalariesYour Committee have gone through the papers referred to them, and have taken evidence on the question of Salaries of the Cape Government Rail way Staff, and have to report that they were more than surprised to learn that the salaries of Railway Officers are absolutely inadequate to the work and responsibility of their respective duties, without even taking into consideration their length of service, and the high cost of living in this country.The evidence before the Committee clearly shows that in Great Britain, Europe, America, Canada and other Colonies, officers holding positions of much less importance are receiving anything from two to five times the salaries that are being paid here.Your Committee further find that as a rule Business Houses, Companies, and also the Rail ways ih our neighbouring Colonies pay much higher salaries, thus taking from us some of our best men, and so making the efficient and safe working of our Railways not only one of extreme difficulty, but also - as has been recently shown of great danger to the travelling public.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.