Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-12-28
WAGES RAISED
IN NAVY YARDS
New Schedule Announced by Sec
retary Daniels.
TAVEC CEEENT IANIVrAny
TAKES EFFECT JANUARY |.
Increases Eight Trades at the Nava
Academy Out of Fifty. Here.

Secretary Daniels announced yester-
day the new schedule of wages for
employees of the various navy yards
and stations during the calendar year
1916. to take effect January l.
In many of the trades in these yards
the workmen will receive increases in
pay next Saturday morning. There
are fit trades at the Naval Academy
In eight of these trades there will be
increases OF pay per diem as follows:
Masons. brick. $3.50 TO $496: pipe
filters. $352 to $500; master alarms,
$500 to $2.16; machinist.. all around
$344 to $3.50; chief master alarms.
1882 to 1915; mechanics, electrical
specially skilled, $500 to $424; ma
chinists, specially skilled, $4.00 to
$424; molders. S3.6S to $400.
The reports of the special wage
boards convened at each yard were
received about December /, and AS
sistant Secretary Roosevelt then held
hearings open to any individual en-
ploye or to any representative of
trade from the various navy yards
Committees appeared form the fol-
lowing yards and stations: Ports
mouth, Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia, Norfolk, Charleston, Puget
Sound, Newport, Naval Academy. An
napolis; naval proving ground, In
dian Head. In addition, many writ
ten arguments were received and pass
ed upon.
AS a result of these reports and
hearings, it became evident that in
certain trades the rate of wages paid
by private firms in the vicinity of navy
yards has increased materially during
the past year. The government is
by law, required to fix the rate of wages
at the various navy yards and stations
so that they shall conform. as nearly
as is consistnet with the public inter
est, with those of private establish
ments in the immediate vicinity of the
respective yards"
The force of workmen at the Naval
Academy under the National League of
striving for an equalization of pay on
the scale of that of the Washington
and Norfolk Navy Yard
While the pay of the men has been
increased there is no increase in the
supervisory force at the Academy
which is manifestly an injustice 10 the
foreman
Three recommendations of import
tance have been approved by the Sec
retary, as follows:
1. There has been much complaint
about the multiplicity of rates of pay
in individual trades. In some cases
this has gone as high as Is different
rates in an individual trade Orders
have been isued that hereafter there
shall be not more than five rates in
any one yard at any one time
2. In putting the new schedule into
effect orders have been issued that
where the maximum in any trade has
been increased every employe in that
trade shall be advanced to the next
higher rating.
3. In accordance with the recon-
|, mendations of all of the wage boards,
the pay of the supervisory force. i. e.
quartermen and leadingmen, which
has heretofore been fixed at % per
cent. and 10 per cent, respectively,
/ above the maximum pay of the trade
will be increased to 80 per cent. and
- per cent. respectively. This is be
livede to be in line with the best prac-
tice in this country giving a material
increase in pay TO those mechanics and
| artisans who show their ability to act
in supervisory capacity But there
is no increase in pay in the supervis-
ory force at the Naval Academy.
1T is impossible to determine with
/ exactness the average amount of the
| increases" said Secretary Daniels
1T may be stated, however. that these
| increases will affect a great majority
of the employees at navy yards and
stations. There are about $4,000 men
employed in navy yards and naval
stations. and the compensation of most
of them will be increased, beginning
with the first of January