Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-05-23
MEMORIAL EXERCIsEsIlNCREAsE MMEN's PAY
Neutrality-suspicious. Railway Com
pany Notifies its Employees
of the Grant.

Following an announcement posi-
ed in the office of the company seH--
eral weeks ago that the tralnmen EN-
Moved on the lines of the Washing.
ton-virginia Railway Company woul'
be given an advance in wages oen
aral Manager R. W. King, has non-
fed the men that after July J. 'he
scale of wages will be brought up
to that paid by the street railways
Of washington. During the first year
of service motormen and conduc-
tors will receive 90 IL cents an hour.
f,on, tho second to the fifth year
"a 1-2c an hour; from the sixth tc
the ninth year 25 IL cents an nour'
80 Ton wears and over 81 cents an
hour The pay of the trollymen Is
,dvaoce to 1S cents an hour.
In addition to this, the Washing
ton-vireinia company has arranged
- mt into effect from the same Date
nension system <or its employees:
embracing not only traAnmen' ou.
! oeoe force and those in shops anc
other branches of the system Inc
nlan for the pension system as an
nounced divides the employees in''
FIVE classes. as follows:
/ (a) Employees who shall have at,
tanned the age of seventy years ane
who have been continuously Tor III.
+een years or more in the service Oh
the company.
(b) Employees over ffty-five years
of aes who have been continuously
for fifteen years or more IN the ser
vice of the company, and who shall
in the opinion of the pension board
become physically disqualified Tor
such service.
(c) Employees who nave been con-
tinuously for fifteen years or more
in the service of the company ahc
hall have the opinion of the pen
sion board, become physically ois'
qualified by reason of injury re-
ceived while in the discharge of thcil
duties. for which, in the opinion OIL
the pension board, they are neither
,,,hoI1y nor in part to blame.
(d) Employees under fifty-iiv'
wears of age VINO have been contihu
ouslv for fifteen years or more il
i the service of the company, VINO
shall, in the opinion Of the pension
board, become, physically disaaali-
fed for such service, may be grant
, cd srecial pensions for limited per
: ;od within the discretion OF the pen
sion board.
The amunt of the pension to D.
:, Maid is Lased on length OF service
If the employees and ranges from .
to 30 per cent of the amount they /"
: ceived monthly for ten years prev
t ;ous TO retirement. II is provided
s however. that the amount paid TN
: retiring employees shall not be les
e than $50 or more than sou. IL
further provided that $500 in addi
ton will be- paid the family of an EN-
plove on the pension roll upon HI
death.
: A pension board to pass upon al
anplications for retirement VIII b.
appointed by the general manage
1 of the Washington-Virginia Rail
e way Company and this board vii
. have authority, subject to approva
e by the railway company, to make ant
2 enforce rules and regulations for IT
D management; to determine the ellg
t gibility of employees to receive pen
sion allowances; to fix the amour
of such allowance, and to prescrlb'
f the conditions under which such a!
!owances may be paid and undel
which they may be revoked. The
acceptance of the pension by an en-
. ploye does not debar him from en-
gaging in some other business.
, 1t is stated that the Washington,
: Virginia line is the only electric rail,
way in this section of the country
that has a pension system for It's
employees. Recently a strike was
called on the line, but the Alexandria
! division stuck to the company al
most to man and enough of the
men of the Falls Church-Fairfax
division remained with the company
to operate trains without Interrupt
ton. The employees Of the company
have received with much pleasure the
notice of the proposed advance in
wages and the establishment of the
pension system
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