Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-05
|IfROAD WAGES
RAISED 81 A DAY
Increase Granted by Nc
Adoo Benefits Mainly
Clerks and Laborers
ONE MILLION AFFECTED
Adds $l5O,OOO,OOO to Payroll.
Eight Hours Is Basic
Day
ONE MILLION AFFECTED
By the Associated Press
Washington, Sept. !

Washington. Sept. 5.
Nearly million railroad employees,
Including all clerks, track laborers and
maintenance of way men, are to re-
\ ceive wage increases of s25 month,
1 the equivalent of one dollar a day or
twelve cents an hour. over the pay
they received last January I, under
1 eral McAdoo. Advances are effective
as Of September /.
This order, affecting half the rail
I road men in the United States and
adding approximately 100000, 900 TO
the annual payroll in calculations o
I labor representatives. represents the
second largest aggregate wage in
crease ever granted in American In
sdustrial history. 1t is supplementary
to the general railroad wage order
issued nearly four months ago. pro-
1 viding for about $500 900 900 increases,
and for the classes of employees af-
fected, it supplants provisions of that
order.
Most of the employees covered by the
"A new order have made considera ply
less than 800 month, and the vol
suntary increase was decided on by
\ the director general after investiga
zion by his advisory board of railroad
wages and working conditions of the
pay of men doing similar work in
.,ther industries. In the main. this
voards recommendations We're fol-
tPwed.
4 e. Eight Hours Basic Day
The order specified that eight hours
is to be considered the basic day, but
overtime up to ten hours is to be paid
pro rata. with one and one-half the
regular rate for overtime past the ten
! hours Specific rules are laid down for
the promotion of employees on grounds
K OF merit and seniority. Other regua-
tions forbdding dismissal of employees
without cause, and providing for hear.
ing on appeal resemble the rules now in
effect under Government civil service,
These restrictions will affect mainly the
100000 railway clerks.
Thousands of women clerks employed
by the railroads are to receive the same
s pay as men for similar work. but the
interpretation of similar work" is left
to executives.
Back pay from January l will be
made under the former general wage
order. and the advances now granted
will be figured on top Of the wage last
January /, rather than on the pay re-
ceived in the immediate past under tn.
u general wage increase Minimum rates
| OF pay are established for all casse.
covered by today's order, but the in
creases of S25 month, applies if the
epfploye worked on a monthly or weekly
) basis and OF twelve cents an hour ap
; <rlies if the employe worked by the hour
Z in many cases will run the actual new
& rate above the minimum.
Application of Increases
Glasses sharing in the increases, will
8 the new minimum rate for each class
are as follows:
Track laborers, twenty-eight cents al
hour, with maximum of forty cents al
hour
Those doing clerical work of any de
scription, train announcers, gatemen
checkers. baggage and parcel room EN-
ployes, train and engine crew callers
operators of office and station equpmen
IN usvices excepting telegraphers, who's
\ application for wage increases is unde
consideration), together with chief clerks
I foremen. subforemen and other super
7 visory forces of the preceding groups
I $3.50 a month
t .,sh,ea, ,,oar 90 | -
3tenaants saE n ,,,or,h
Ion;tors o1ot ,,
. I switchboard operators. office. station ant
"atciifhen S'o month.
S,al'ohafy steam engineers and chic
atiohary engineers SllO a month; sta
J. uonary hremen and powerhouse oilers
$so; locomotive boiler washers, thirty
4 eight cents an hour with maximum O
Il nifty cents an hour; operators of trans
fer and turntables, forty-five cents a
hour.
I'll Laborers employed IN and aroun
& 4 shops, roundhouses. stations store
4, 4 houses and warehouses (excentinp har
tgk bor emnIoyas IN be nroy,Idod co. cor
!, aratelv1 such as engine wotcbn,en an
,viners sre hriIdor, a,i, ". ,' hoiIa
s wa.bers anahnrar .,,Iy,o H. l''',. 80 ,.
shi,rar, - ,,a,.. - ', = s,'% W., 81
q P"o!' a''u ''"'-c"ut Ut
I e., silii cents an hour' VIII
Ahuiil OF iorty-ihree cents an hour
otner common apor IN these depart
menis' twenty-elght cents an hour, wit
nEximum or forty cents an hour.
Affects Maintenance of Way
IN the maintenance of way denar'
Tent. those receiving the s25-a!mo
MISUNDERSTANDING increase ove
81 ne nav of last January I. together wit
me minimum for each class, are as TO
lows:
s}f Foremen of the kinds of work know