The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-05

Twelve and one-half per cent. sal
ary> increase to all employees receiv
ing less than $4,000 annually.
Transatlantic Trust Company
Bonus of an unannounced amount to
all employees.
Trumbull stae1 Company Fifteen
per cent wage increase.
United Cigar Stores Company
Bonus during January $4,000, maxi
ing total of 100000 for twelve
months.
United States Envelope Company
Ten per cent. wage increases to $500
employees.
Utica Knitting Company-Ten per
cent increase to $500 workers.
United States-Wage increases from
one cent to two cents an hour to West
Indian laborers at the Panama Canal.
United States Steel Company-Dis-
tribution plan; also giving employees
right to subscribe for $4,000 shares Of
stock below market price. Three
wage increases of year, with distri-
buting now under way. aggregate
about $3s,000,000.
United States Mortgage and Trust
Company-Christm bonus Of 10 per
cent. and further distribution of IL
IL per cent. to those making $1,000
or less a year and Of 10 per cent. to
those making more than $1,000.
4 Union Bag and Paper Company
Ten per cent. bonus on salaries to all
employees, payable quarterly from
December Is.
Union Trust Company-Ten per
cent. Christmas bonus and 10 per
cent. bonus to meet increased living
costs.
Union Pacific Railroad Company
One months salary to all employees
receiving less than $500 a year. In
surance policies for employees receive
ing less than $4,000.
United Railways Company of St.
L.ouis-Five per cent. wage increase
to 5000 platform men, effective Jan
uary 1, adding $150,000 to the pay
roll.
Vacuum Oil Company, Rochester
wage increases.
Graduated Monthly Bonuses.
worthington Pump and Machinery
Corporation-Bonus Of 10 per cent of
years salary and graduated scale Of
monthly bonuses for 1915, varying
from to 10 per cent. Of salaries
Wabash Railroad Shops, Toledo
Ten per cent. wage increase.
Wisconsin State-Announceme by
the State Industrial Commission of
general wage increases averaging Is
per cent. Munition makers receive
20 per cent. greater salaries than in
1918. j.
Warren Foundry and Machine Co.,
Phi1ipsburg- N. J.-Ten thousand
Al ~, S~k-
employees, amount equalling per
cent Of yearly earnings Of company
Western Union Telegraph Company
|-Twenty-fou thousand employees to
share in bonus of about yz,5oO,o0o.
Messenger boys $25; employees re-
ceiving less than $1,2o0, per cent. Of
annual salaries; from $1,000 to 81
goo, 6 per cent. of annual salaries.
Westchester and Bronx Title and
Mortgage Guaranty Company-Profit
sharing plan for employees, based on
company's profits for year.
Westinghouse Lamp Company
Eight and one-third per cent wage
increase to employees; 1000 en-
ployees in New York, Bloomfield, N.
j., and Milwaukee, Wis.
WHY'S Overland Automobile Com
pany-Approximatel $1,250,000 to be
distributed among FL 900 employees
Western Electric Company-Bonus
Of two to four weeks wages, according
to length Of service.
Wells Fargo~@Exprese Company
One million dollars to be divided
among 5000 employees receiving less
than $4,000 a year in an 8 Is per
cent. bonus, to be distributed in four
quarterly payments
Webb. Levett & Co.-Thirty-thr
and one-third per cent. bonus on an
nual salaries to all employees.
Increases were also voted to en-
ployees of the United Railways Com
pany of st. Louis; Gambler Bros. &
Co. of New York and Philadelphia;
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railway Company: United States Coal