Bisbee daily review., 1906-11-17
PENNSYLVANIA R. R. INCREASE
 SALARIES
l85,000 Men Will Receive a Raise Under New Schedule Which Takes Effect Decem- Der i Next.

| PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. 16.-The Board of Directors of the Pennsyl vania Railroad company have ordered
 an advance of ten per cent in the wages of all permanent employees of
 the company who now receive less |, than S200 a month. This increase takes effect December 1, 1906, and ap-
 plies to all lines of the Pennsylvania
 System both East and West of Pitts burgh.
 | The Pennsylvania and it's affiliated companies employ about 192, 900 men. | Of these about 1850 will participate ' in the increase of wages. This will
 involve an addition of some SIP, ,000, 900
 to the payrolls of the various com
 panies, the Pennsylvania Railroad
 Company itself contributing nearly
 Ss,500,000 of the total.
 The Pennsylvania in 1902 awarded
 an increase of ten per cent to all em-
 ployes receiving less than s200 a
 month. Thus. the present re-adjust- [ ment will be equivalent to a total ad- dition of twenty per cent to the rates ! paid in September. 1902. In many
 cases it will represent an extra in
 crease, for re-adjustments of wages of special classes of employees have been
 ISUS. E<Ntu dS TtttullI as October 1st of this year a monthly ! total of s30.733. or s3GS.796 a year, was added to the salaries and wages Of 1,05S men principally telegraph op- orators. The new order applies to ! them quite as completely as to other employees with the s200 a month class The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has never made general reduction of
 wages since May, 1877. when, because
 of riots and other troubles, reduced earnings made a ten per cent decrease
 necessary. This was restored in March, 1880. howecer. and Pennsyl-
 vania employees have, since that time
 enjoyed constant and undiminished
 wages, in spite of business depressions
 which have on number of occasions
 caused reductions by many corpora IiOns, both railroad and industrial. The present increase Of wages repre-
 sents another step in the ennsylvania's s
 policy of liberality toward those with
 whom 1t deals. As regards the public
 the company announced in August its
 plan to issue a transferable mileage
 book and to reduce it's maximum rate
 of fares to ? l-2 cents a mile. To
 shareholders the Directors on Novem-
 Der 1st decided to increase the rate
 of dividend from to ' per cent per
 anuum. Now to the employs comes
 the award of an increased share in the
 company's earnings.
 { The action of the Pennsyivania Rail- road Company's Board will be followed | by similar action on the part of the va
 rious. lines West of Pittsburgh which ! are included in the Pennsylvani Sys-
 tenn. At the present time the Penn sylvania System operating themont . svlvania Company, operating h e Northwest System" employs q, ,l46
 men. and pays out s17,17S.S63 in wages
 annually. The Pittsburgh. Cincinnati. 1 Chicago and St. Louis Railway. or the Southwest System" employs 21,630 men, and pays out s12.S56,013 annual [ ly. The other controlled lines which { will make a like increase are the Gin cinnati and Muskingum Valley Rail
 road with 749 employees and payroll ! of S39S.5S1 per year: the Vandalia | Railroad, with 5.112 men and annual
 wages and salaries of s3,527, TAI; the Grand apids and Indiana Railway which pays s1.s14.013 to 2,655 men; and the Cleveland. Akron and Colum-
 hus Railway with a payroll of $703,- os7 to 1,226 men.
 In all the lines West, therefore. there are 62,5lS men drawing s36.477,- s98 in wages and salaries. All of these do not come within the "s200 or less per month" class. so that the total h. crease will not be ten per cent above this sum, although it will closely ap proNmate it.