The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-23
WAR BOARD HELPS
LABOR IN 9 CASES
Employees Of Corn Products
Company Will Get Higher
Wages.
EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN
Increase Also Given to Cleri-
cal Workers of General
Electrical Company.
EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.--wages were
ordered Increased. hours OF labor short
sned and dismissed employees ordered
tenstated by the National War Labor
Board to-day in nine awards, chief Of
which was in the case of Corn Products
Refining Company. Each award Is for
the duration OF the war and is retro
active
The other cases In which awards
were made are the employees of the
Syracuse. N. Y. Northern Electric Com
pany: interurban trainmen of Portland,
Ore. clerical workers and night workers
Of the Schenectady works OF the Gen.
eral Electric Company, employees OF the
Butte. Mon. Electric Railway Company.
Substation operators of the Rochester
end Syracuse Railway Company, en-
ployees OF klieber & Dawson Co. OF
Indianapolis. and employees OF the Con-
nersville Blower and the P. II. & F. H
Roots Blower companies OF ConnersvfTfe,
Ind.
The award in Corn Products Refining
Company affects employees\at plants in
Granite City. Argo and Pekin, H., and
Edgewater, n. j. The award provides
for wages ranging from As to 30 cents
an hour for employees in the corn
process service of the company; from
IS TO 65 cents an hour for those in the
machine line service: from 35 to so
cents for those in the shipping and stores
service. and from As TO so cents for
those in the class known as labor SER
vice. Prevailing wages in the communi-
ties of the several plants are established
for the skilled trade workers.
Pay for Overtime Work.
The principle OF time and half for
all work OF more than eight hours and
double time for Sundays and holidays
is established for all employees. Equal
rag for women and men performing the
same service and collective bargaining
are recognized In the award, which is
retroa ctive at the Granite City plant to
last June / and at the Argo, Edgewater
and Pekin plants to last August 1. The
company is allowed until December 81
to make back payments.
Employees of the Klieber & Dawson
Company Of Indianapolis, discharged be-
cause OF union affiliations were ordered
reinstated. an examiner Of the board to
decide which were discharged unjustly.
The right Of collective bargaining was
recognized in the cases of the Corners
viller Blower and NJ. H. & +. II. Roots
Blower companies, and all questions in
dispute relative to wages. hours OF labor
and overtime were referred to a COM
mittee OF employees and the manage
ment for adjustment.
The War Labor Board announced
thatswages of sub-station operators of
the Rochester and. Syracuse Railway
Company, Inc. shall be s4.25 for ten or
twelve hours work and S364 for eight
Gl..f So =.
corrective $4.25 for ten hours work and
APPRENTICE sub-station operators are to
receive $3.45 for eight hours work.
Wages of other employees which haze
been submitted to the board for fxation
must be increased 20 per cent, provided
that the minimum wage for any adult
employee shall be not less than ~ cents
an hour for not more than ten hours work
n day. Women ara to receive equal pay
with MEN for equal work. and the award
is made retroactive to last August 3
The company has until next February ]
TO make the back payments.
General EIectrtc's Case.
Men clerical workers of the Genera,
Electric Works at Schenectady, n. Y.
got q horizontal increase OF Is per cent
under an award announced by the Wal
Labor Board. All classes of womer
clerical workers received an increase o.
20 per cent. with minimum for sdul
women workers of $3.50 week. Thu
nriAimum wage for adult men clerks wa!
nx4d at $22.50 q week
the 10 per cent. increase granted b,
the company July 81 is to be used a.
an offset and deducted from the In
cgeases awarded both classes OF clerica
workers. All bonuses now Naid by thu
company are to be considered wages II
computing the amount of increase du
each employee. and the hours of labo
must remain unchanged.
Women must receive same pay a
men where they do equal work, and tn
award Is made retroactive to August
The company has until January 1 {,
make back payments. The award is 70
the life of the War Labor Board.