Eighty-nine "Thousand on Sixteen Government Systems Nanking, Feb, 19, The Ministry of Railways has collected reports from the vari Government railways. regarding number of eraployees working on eat line in 1929, Tt is learned that there wore 89,009 workers employed by the 16 Government railways.
The Peking-Mukden railway, has the largest staff, with 24,401 workers. The railway which has the smallest number of employees is the Chang-Hsia railway, the line running between Amoy and Changchow, in Fukien Province. This line has only 48 workers, The number of employees on the other Government lines are Peking-Hankow railway, 14820; Tientsin-Pukow railway, 11884, Peking-Suiyuan railway, 9,182;' Kiao-Tsi railway, 6,121; Lunghai railway, 4,509; Hunan-Hupeh railway, '4211; " Nanking-Shanghai railway, 4111; Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo tailvway, 3129; Chengtai railway, 2,108; "Canton: Hankow railway, '1,981; Tao-Ching railway, 1,260; Nanchang-Kiukiang railway} "1,072; Canton-Kowloon railway, 795; and Chaochow-Swatow railway, 184, A glance at the division of workors on the Tientsin-Pukow railway will indicate to some extent the number of employees working in various departments of the Goves ment railways. On the Tientsin" Pukow railway, there were in 1929, 598 employees in the General Affairs Government formerly wanted to|more comfortably.
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