The dismissed employees of the Railway are in vain begging for part settlement of the outstanding amounts due to them, bat usually receive the stereotyped answer that it has no money, its financial resources having drained by the crisis, and are told to be patient a little longer.
Until very recently more sal have been. ma¢ winings of those remain-ting on the Railway, down to office messengers, have undergone new jects and reductions—all on the same stereotyped plea of the necessity for strict economy, ote.
While carrying out the regime of e|drastie economy. and curtailing every way the economical welfare of the masses of railway employees, the Board at the sage time shows Jan amazing extravagance in dealing with itself.
Staggering sums are expended yearly for the maintenance of the Board and Doo-ban's office, the very. functions of which latter are under stood by nobody, hundreds. of thou-aniis are thrown away in purchasing astlese buildings, tens of thousands repairing and furnishing them in firnly' princely splendour, although Wes house the representatives of a proletarian state, Each member of the Roard costs the Railway, ax shown by statistics, about Rs. 50,000 gold per _annum. Some are absentees for months and leven. years while regularly" recei ing fabulous sums, Others manage to combine their high offices on. the besides various fixed -appropriations of which the public wil pra-bably never know, as they are made strict secrecy, and sundry indirect incomes. oficial' the following tidy mounts are annually expended for the needs of the members of the Board of CER. a "Annual salaries, in the restricted meaning of the term, come to 200, G00—roubles gold. This money only oes for the payment of salaries of the: members of the Board and the "The annual called quarters reform which practically resolves itself into a reduction fof living space allowed per man. was claimed by the management that Jan economy of as much as 25,000 g.r.
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