The men (and they were all men) who works on the railroads wanted pay raises in 1916, in an article that echoes present-day debates. Should the federal minimum wage should be increased from its current $7.25 to $12, as Hillary Clinton endorses? What worker protections are the 327,000+ Uber drivers entitled to?

This article also contains the first infographic I’ve come across in these archived Sunday Magazine posts, one visualizing the rise in railroad stock prices over the preceding two years. Infographics generally did not achieve widespread use in print until USA Today was created in the 1980s, rendering the sight of one here striking — usually articles would just print tables of numbers in lieu of visualizations.

The Wages of the Locomotive and Its Driver: Comparison of the Work and Pay of the Trainmen and the Trains Considered as Representatives of Labor and Capital

From September 17, 1916