The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-11
INCREASE in PAY
WON BY TRA|NMEN
FROM RAILROADS
Wages Are Raised z Per
Cent, or $6,000,O0O
Annually.
BOARD GRANTS
HALF OF DEMANDS
Addition Just Balances Increase
In Cost of Living Since 1909,
When Last Award Was
Madc-Railroads, Between
Horns of Dilemma, File
Minority Report.


lived controversy between railroads of
tho East and their conductors and
trainmen over the latters demands for
more pay ended tonight. The en-
ployes arc granted an increase In
wages averaging per cent, and total
ing s6.ooo,o0O annualIy-about half of
what they wanted-from October /
last. effective for one year. Ono hun
dred thousand men will share In the
increase.
Arbitration was accomplished under
he Newlands amendment to the Erd-
man act. The controversy threatened
Rt one time to tic up by strike the
.raDsportation facilities of all States
east Of tho mississippi River and north
of the Ohio.
Award Is p'ndins.
Tho award Of the arbitration COM
mission is binding and final. The two
board representatives OF the employees
nlcd 2 minority report in addition, and
the two repre- sentativcs OF the forty
one railroads dissenting opinion.
In reaching It's award the board
ruled mainly against the employees on
four out of five points submitted as
reasons why the increase should be
granted and found for tn m on the
1fth-the Increased cost OF living
Since 1909. when last an Increase was
granted. the arbitrators found the cost
OF living has increased per cent. Ger
tain minor contentious embraced also
were conceded TO the employees Ii was
therefore. more than coincidence that
the increase granted In wages is exact
~ the increase in the cost OF living as
outlined by documents introduced by
the employees.
The board does not found It's ac-
tfon entirely upon the Increased cost
OF living reads the award. 4 docu-
ment of seventyfivc printed pages,
though IL looks upon this as basic.
Without attempting to standardize
the rates of pay between railroad en-
ployes of tho East and the West, the
board asserts its beliet that it is de-
sirable. but not possible at the pres
ent time. Upon this the award voices
an inquiry as to whether there is any
longer substantial reason for the
maintenance Of Il wage differential be-
tween tho two sections.
Task for Congress.
Such an inquiry ought to result in
resolution" reads the award. III it
IS found that such n diiferentiaI ought
Ia exist, as 10 what tho Gifferential
should be. Those making the inquiry
should be empowered to report upon
existing wage scales in all territories
for the purpose of ascertaininG. II pos
siblc. scientific basis for tho payment
of railroad employees to operate trains
! that the body making such inquiry
should attempt 10 fix wages"
1T is suggested that tho Commission
on Industrial Relations recently ap-
pointed by President Wilson might bo
competent TO carry out the suggested
inquiry.
Analysis Of the vote on each article
submitted by the trainmen reveals an
almost unbroiten coalition between the
two representatives OF the employees
and the two independent members OF
tho board with the railroad represen-
tatives opposing them. The articles
are dealt with separately and fix the
pay for various classitlcations Of labor.
While technical in vcrbiage, they pro-
vide. chiefly. that the monthly pay OF
employees In the passenger branch OF
the service shall be:
Conductors. sl35; baggagemen,
$3.50; f1agmen and rear brakemen SIS:
brakcmen, s7s.50. Overtime per hour,
conductors, 45.7 cents; assistant con-
ductors and ticket collectors, 35.7
cents; baggagemen, 21.5 cents; flag
men and rear brakemen. 26 cents;
brakemen. 25.5 cants,
For the freight service tho chief
awards are: Through runs, conduc-
tors, cents mile: flagmen. 2.s7 cents
Il mile; brakemen. 2.O7 a mile; any run
less than 100 miles TO be paid for as
| II it were 100 miles. In freight,
pickup or drop, mine and roustabout
service. some minimum. conductors are
awarded $3.50 day of 100 miles or
less, ten hours or less; nagmen. s3.1O,
| and brakemen, $500; overtime to he
paid for MS time and one-half."
| To the award that overtime be paid
| for at one and one-half the regular
rate, the employees representatives
filed a minority report OF protest. TO
the entire find the railroads repre-
sentatives dissented.
Hnilroads In Dilemma.
The railroads contention that they
are between two horns Of u dilemma,
from which there is no apparent cs-
| cape-that they must either raise rates
or cease raising wagcs-is dismissed
! by tho arbitrators with this assertion:
This board believes il must make
| Its findings without any reference to
| the dilemma III which tho railroads
are evidently placed The Interstate
| Commerce Commission, and not this
| arbitration hoard, has the duty OF
| determining whether the railroads can
| earn in addition to their other charges
| without an increase in rates, the rates
| of pay that this board believes at the
present time to be duo to the conduc-
! tors and trainmen."
| However, the board calls the atten-
! tion Of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission to the decrease or hazard that
follows the installation OF steel cars,
double tracking and improved signals.
| The board Of arbitration consisted of
w. w. Atterbury. vice president OF the
| Pennsylvania Railroad, and a. II.
| Smith, senior vice-president of the
| New York Central, for the railroads
Iucius l.. Sheppard, senior vice -presi-
dent Of the Order of Hallway Conduc-
| tors, and Daniel l.. Cease. of Cleveland,
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