The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 86
Tramway Workers
Tramway Workers.
The men who work on the tramcars in our cities are on duty for at least fourteen hours a day, without including meal times. Many of them work longer even than this, and seven days a week. One conductor in Bradford was found to be working regularly 115 hours a week, with no intervals for meals, at wages of three shillings a day. One town* in England works its own tramways free from the control of profit-making shareholders. On this trainway the workers enjoy an Eight Hours Day.
* Huddevsfield. The Town Council nevertheless loses nothing by its generosity; its tramways yield full interest on cost and show no deficit.