Good Prices but Well-Paid Railroad Employees Made $136 a Month; Mill Workers, Farm Hands Much Less, Nov. 22, 1923

Salaries and wages paid to railroad employees of all classes for the first six months of 1923 averaged $136 a month, an increase of approximately $4 a month over the corresponding period of 1922. The total number of employees inservice was 1,850,000 as compared with 1,600,000 last year.

From the front page of the Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., Nov. 22, 1923