Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-05-27
AGGREGATE is 100000, 900
Half of Amount to be Dis
tributed Within a Few
Weeks as Back Pay.
NEW BOARD is CREATED
Investigations Will be Con-
tinued; Women to be
Paid Same as Men.

WASHINGTON. May 26.-Gen-
eral pay increases for nearly two
million railway employees were an
rounced today by Director General
McAdoo, effective next Saturday,
and retroactive to last January car
rying out substantially recommends.
tions of the railroad commission.
The aggregate of the increases prob
ably will be more than s3O0,00O,o0o
a year, half of which will be dis
tributed within n few weeks as back
pay in lump sums ranging from
about 800 to nearly 1900 each.
The director general departs from
the wage commissions recommends
tons in the following particulars:
The principle of the basic eight
hour day is recognized, but owing
to exigencies of the war situatkDn
hours of employment are not actu-
ally reduced and overtime is to be
raid pro-rata; future adjustments
OF pay are to be made on the basis
of eight hours.
In addition to the ordinary scale
of increase day laborers, employed
mainly on track work, are to get at
least 2 1-2 cents an hour more
than they received last December 81.
A eminimum of SIS cents an hour
Is established for the shop trades
including machinists, boilermakers
and blacksmiths, and:
Women Paid Same as Men.
nay as men for the same work ana
negroes are to get the same as white
men for similar employment.
To work out multitude OF IN
eauaIities of pay among employees
doing similar work in different To-
calities and other injustices caused
by varying rules of employment and
condition of organization the direc-
tor-general created a new board OF
railway wages and working condi-
tons, consisting of three labor rep
resentatives and three railway ex-
ecutives which will conduct extern
sive Investigations and recommend
wage and OF ther employment
changes
All increases now ordered will be
determined according to a percent
age scale based on pay received in
December, 1915, and any increases
which have been allowed within that
time, will be deducted. In many
cases raises in pay in the last two
and a half years are about equal
to the increases now approved, and
consequently those employees will
got little or no more. To correct
just such situations when injustices
are apparent will be one OF the prin-
cipal duties of the new wage board.
whose creation was suggested by the
railroad wage commission. In no
cases are wages to be reduced.
All Men to Benefit.
daily. hourly, piece work and train
mile basis will benefit by tho new
allowances, and members Of the four
leading railroad brotherhoods, whose
pay was raised through operation of
the Adamson act, are to receive from
10 to 40 per cent addition, n smaller
increase than they had asked of the
railroads shortly before the govern
ment took control.
The wage order applies to all en-
ployes of the 164 roads now under
federal management. but not to the
so-called short lines unless they are
retained by the government after
July /. II affects employees of ter
companies. lighters, ferries and tugs
owned by railroads, but not en-
ptoyes Of railroad toat lines on the
lakes, rivers or coastwise traffic. AL |
though Pullman cars are now under
government operation, Pullman EN- /,
ployos will not benefit unless the |
railrond administration decides
eventually TO retain management OF
the cars.
New Board Named.
The new board of railroad wages |
and working conditions is composed |
of j. ]. Dermody, vice-president of |
the Order of Railway Telegraphers; |
G.. II. Sines, vice president Of the |
brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen; !
A. o. Wharton, head of the railway |
employees department Of the Amerl-
can Federation of Labor, +. F, |
Gaines, superintendent of motive |
power Of the Central of Georgia |
railway; c. E. Lindsey, maintenance |
of way engineer for the New York |
Central and w f. Morse, general |
of the Denver & Salt Lake |
The latter three have re-
signed their positions with railroads.