Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-26
Believes POrtersAre
 Entitled to Tips
GENERAL MANAGER HUNGER Y FORD OF PULLMAN co.
TOLD THE COMMISSION
Employees of the Boston C Maine Road
 Suggest Wage Increases Ranging r. From 20 to 40 Per cent-others Ask
 Wage Increases.

P washington Feb. 25.-The little fellow" among railroad employees was represented today by the railroad wage commission which was asked not to forget thousands of workers, or sanized and unorganized, who con- tribute materially to the operation of trains. but are little known to the public
 Employes of, the Pullman Company were given, official inclusion among railroad men under government juris- diction when Secretary Lane chair man of the commission, told one of their number he might proceed with his representations on the theory that the Pullman Company is a common carrier
 Tipping, which Pullman car porters recently testified was relied on to SUD- plement their small salaries, was de- tended today by l.. s. Hungerford, general manager of the Pullman com pany.
 If porters were put on a straight salary, do you think tipping would continue?" asked Secretary Lane. Believes Porters Are Entitled to Tips I You must take into consideration that tipping is very general prac- tice," MT. Hungerfo I'd replied. "I think the porter feels that ne earns the tips and that the passengers feel the same way. I believe the porters are fully entitled to the tips" | You do not think then" suggested Commissioner Covington, that the Pullman company could readjust the temperament of American people in regard to handing out dime or quar- ter for extra service"
 T don't think it would he advisa | n al nr1 p111J less. it was abolished elsewhere" the
 witness answered.
 MT. Hungerford said few dining
 cars now were operated by the Pull Iman company. all of them belonging
 to the railroads on which they are
 run.
 Conductors Salaries.
 | L. S.. Taylor, comptroller of tht
 Pullman company told the commis
 sion that conductors salaries rang.
 from s70 to $100 a month, with a ter per cent. bonus each year. a month
 salary for a year. without denlerit land certain bonuses after fifteen year Iof service .'Rerters receive from. $3 sttrains get s75s. monthly :; A. L., Rhoades Pullman eonduc T tor, said the conductors have to wori long hours. are not allowed to sleeI while on duty, undergo heavy ex } nenses on the road in addition t maintaining their, families and tha | This salary after six years service wa sa9 a month.
 Urged Increased Pay on B. 6 M. George P. Mann and P. H. McNa mara urged increased pay for tn, clerks of the Boston and Maine. . R. T. Huston. speaking for the Crde of Telegrahhers, Dispatchers, Agent
 and :Signalmen, suggested 40 per cen increases for tower men drawing les than s75 month 30 per cent. flo ,, those receiving between s75 and s10 :. and, 20 per cent. for those above S10t Steam Shovel and Dredsemen. T. J. Brady and W. NJ. Welch, in : ternatioEal president, asked wage in !, creases for members of the Interna t tional Brotherhood of Steam Show
 and Dredgemen to compensate for tn f fact that their busy season is onl : about eight months of the year. Thei pay now is about S175 month. J.
 Maxwell, a newspaper man of Indian
 apolis. said unorganized baggag
 handlers. and gatenlen of the Indian E apoiis Union Railroad Company, wor : twelve hours a day with only one da 0 of every seven weeks for wages
 s79 a month and less.
 S-Hour Day and Annual Vacation.
 T. M. Lynch, president of the Brott e erhood of Freight Handlers, asked, u l. commission to investigate the worl l. inss of the compulsory relief associs e tion of the Baltimore and Ohio raj z road, which s. E. Ieberling, of u is Switchmen,. attacked in his testimor
 as unfair. An eight hour day and g l. annual vacation was asked for u le freight handlers
 l. S. E. Padgett. general chairman xii the Colored Assoniation of Railros > Fmployes, urged thlt the pay of n ,s gro employees should be equa!ized wi
 that of white men when the wol is performed was the same.
 l. Wage Increases on Western Roads aai1 J. w. Higgins, executive secreta al of the Western Association of Rai ways, re-appeared before the con z: mission to give exact figures on wa as increases in the western territol T. during 1916 and 1917. which he sa
 amounted to s97,s75,000 or an avera