The daily Republican., 1902-11-14
RAILROAD MEMS
WACESADVA
Eight Thousand One Hundred
and Eighty Men on P. B.
q w. Division Affected.
A VOLUNTARY INCREASE.
Railroad Company Decides to
Share it's Immense Wealth
With it's EN-
ployes.
Number OF employees, LOG, 900.
Men affected by increase, nearly

Number OF employees, LOG, 900.
Men affected by increase, nearly
100000.
Wages paid for year ending June
50, $50, 248, 5Sl.
Average per man employed. $5O3.
Average per man per day, $162.
Estim ated total of wage increase,
! Sc, 900, 900.
Equal to dividend on stock Of three
per cent.
Gross earnings for 1901, sl0l, 329,.
195.
Dividends 10 stockholders, slO.-
S57, ,672.
BY voluntarily granting ten per
cent. advance In wages to all those
permanently in its service who are
receiving less than 5000 month, the
Pennsylvania Railroad will distri.
butte among nearly one hundred
thousand employees about Sc. 600, 900
more pay per year At the new
scale and with the present payroll
it is estimated that the total wages
paid by the company for the ensu.
ing year will reach $70,00O,0O0.
Dating from November l the ad.
vance applies on the entire Pennsyl-
vania system east of Pittsburg Erie
and Buffalo, to all lines and shops
operated directly by the Pennsyl-
ranian Railroad. This includes tho
pennsylvania proper, the Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and Washington,
the Northern Central. the Philadel-
phia and Erie, the West Jersey and.
Seashore, the Western New York;
and Pennsylvania, and the Cumber-
laud Valley, which is operated in.
dependent!y Of The Pennsylvania.
ALL CLASSES INCLUDED
No one in the service receiving less
than 500 a month IS excluded from
the wage advance. Trainmen,
S station agents, switchmen. freight
car cleaners, flag men,
track hands, clerks, engine drivers,
supervisors. men ia the shops, aud
about the roundhouse all share IN
the higher pay.
The advance does not extend to
The employees OF the company operat-
ng the lennS ylrania Railroads
anthracite Goa! mines.
The advance III pay is made in ac-
2ordance with resolution OF the di-
rectors adopted ata meeting Wed.
lesday. i was planned to apply to
'rtuaIly every Que outside the off.
'la,s.
Explaining the action taken,
Diaries +. Pugh, second vice presi.
lent OF the Pennsylvania Railroad,
aI:---
"Ihc advance was made because
We ieIt that the men fully deserved
I and also because it was properly
Iue them. Our business is enormous
ma TO handle it has required In
renSe1 eXertlon on The part OF our
mpoYcs. Thea. too, tie cost of liv-
ug las increased.
I'VE fa,t abe to give the adv ance,
was wight under all the cirlum-
Hnr-1 t-at We sAOUld, and 50 we
!ulcit
A.r5N WAS VOLUNTARY.
''Thare hal 1ccn no pressure
voU-At t. bar upon the company
g pay higher wages. The action
A. entirely voluntary.
just how nanny men are affected
ID hot know, but as | remember
Is considerably over ninety per
All Vi tie total number il the
'rN!rp Of the euu,ylyunia Rail-
Il" Company. "
-G;1ATivN AMONG wILMINGToN
T#PLoYEs.
There Wis great iubilation among
'i.lG"IIlon employees Of the Penn
..v2aia yesterday when notice of
crease Of wage wdS posted Hun
'rds Of men are employed in the
'Not AMI yards, and ali wore
aN.!M< face when the announce
r"t WAS made,
L i. br.iryrI that the order is due
lh" prosperity enjoyed by the
mpany the last year being the
oNt profitable in the history of the
at.
The increase Of pay viii mean
50 IN increase in pension to en-
Yes who will he retired hereafter
{ pension being rated according
the salary pad at retirement.
le relations between the Penusyl-
MIA management ana its employees
We always been cordial. The rail.
ad has not had strike for years.
Ih.s division of the Pennsylvania
'llroad gives employment to $3.50
an, nearly all Of whom will be
neiittel by the increase. The
lplOyos are divided into the fol-
wing classes:
Officers, 30, general Office clerks,
}; station agents, 2SS; other sta
n men, 16l; engineers, POI; fire.
IN, 3OG; conductors, 2sS; other
Ilnmen, S36; machinists, 32S car
nters, l54; other shopmen, 500;
'tion foremen, lG9; other track
~, LOS; swltchmen, hagmen and
tchmen, 53l; telegraph operators
Il dispatnners, 861; employees of
nting equipment, 10; all other
ployes and IaDorer5, l,O2 /; totals
80.
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