The railway age · Railway · Village life
Railway workers without work and in debt
17 June 1889 (5 June 1889 old style) Proven
The big contractors kept re-letting sections to small sub-contractors, and workers offered themselves for 80 lepta a day. Many sat without work and without a penny, in debt to every shop on the site. Grocers and innkeepers no longer gave the Italian workers credit, and the Montenegrins owed them more than 10,000 drachmas.
- Where
- Myloi (the village)
- Threads
- Railway, Village life
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Νέα Ἐφημερίς, 5-6-1889 (o.s.), nr. 156 Open (opens in a new tab)
Also in this period
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11 January 1886
The schoolmaster of Myloi is paid by the state
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31 July 1886
A French engineer plans a line from Myloi to Kalamata
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7 August 1886
State commission accepts the line Argos–Myloi
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9 August 1886
A big station: Myloi meant to be the port of the Peloponnese
A reporter wrote that Myloi station was built 'very spacious, with matching warehouses', because this harbour was to become the port of the whole Peloponnese. The station stood right opposite a 'very high ancient…