The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-02

 DEMANDS MET
 BY ARBITRATOR
Eiqht Per Cent. Increase and
 Double Pay for Sundays Allowed.

New York, Aug. 2-The Federal Board of Arbitration, which heard the demands of the Order of Railway Photographers for increased pay and better working conditions on the New York Central and the Nickel Plate" railroads, filed it's report in the United States District Court yesterday, grant ing practically all the demands of the employees.
 The result was hailed by the rail- road men not only as victory over the railroads, but as distinct victory for the Federal system of arbitration, the men having been on the verge of a strike when the trouble was sub mitted to arbitration. The filing of the boards findings in court makes the new scale operative at once, un- der the Erdman law.
 An increase of 8 per cent. in wages is granted to all telegraphers on the lines west of Buffalo, and of 10 per cent on the lines east of Buffalo, mak- ing a uniform wage of about $80 a month.
 Heretofore the te1egraphers have been compelled to work seven days a week for a stated monthly wage, but the award states that the increased pay for the lines west of Buffalo shall be for six days a week and that on Sunday the tclesraphers shall rece.vu double pay as overtime.
 William J. Fripp, who represented the railroads on the Board of Arbitra- tion and who dissented in the award, calculated that the increased wages and the double pay for Sunday work would increase the earnings of the telegraphers twenty-twO per cent. which he said was the most radical increase ever awarded by a board Of arbitration anc was more than the men expected to get Men on the lines cast of Buffalo dii not ask fur nNtra pay on Sunday therainra they will continue tc work thirty or thirty one days E:onth.
 The only D ,'.it of imIlr+a zee which the employees lost was that in which they asked to Le relieved # attending to signals, switch lamps, steam and gasolene ], lr ps and the flarging of crossings.
 In addition to the winning C.: in creased pay, the establishment of a schedule of six working days q week and double ray for Sunday work. the ;cIegra pt CTS won their fisrt for vaca- t1unS On full pay.
 The board ruled that employees who work more than nine consecutive hours a day and who have been in the service one year will be allowed seven days vacation annually with pay. After three years in the service 10 days vacation with pay will be allowed Employees who work nine hours or less and who have been in the service two years will be allowed seven days vacation annually with pay.
 The dissenting opinion by MT. it's operation in part:
 ''It is wholly illogical to grant an increase in wages and a more liberal vacation rule and at the same time provide for extra payment for Sum day work. The effect of this award in converting what has been recogniz- ed as a monthly wage for 26 days is to create penalty for using men on Sundays. The telegraphers have used as their argument for vacations in the past the fact that they were re- quired to work Sundays, and the req sons urged why the vacation rule should be extended, which has been done in this arbitration, was on ac- count of their continuous service. TO remove the consideration for a vaca- ton rule and in the same proceedings to extend such rule appears to me to be entirely illogical and. unjustifia- ble"