Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-06

order and the advances now granted will be figured on top of the wage last January 1, rather than on the pay received in the immediate past under the general wage increase. Minimum rates of pay are established for all classes covered by today's order, but the increase of $25 a month, applied if the employe worked on a monthly or weekly basis, and of 12 cents an hour, applied if the employe worked by the hour, in many cases will run the act ual new rate above the minimum.
 Classes sharing in the increases, with the new minimum rate for each class are as follows:
 Track laborers, 2S cents an hour, with maximum of forty cents an hour.
 Those doing clerical work of any description, train announcers, gate men, checkers, baggage and parcel room employees, train and engine crew callers, operators if office and station equipment devices (excepting@ tele- eraphers whose appplication for wage increases is under consideration, to- gether with chief clerks, foremen, sub foremen and other supervisory forces of the preceding groups, $S75O month.
 Office boys, messengers, others un- der IS years of age, and station at tendants, $45 a month.
 Janitors, elevator and telephone switchboard operators, office station, and warehouse watchmen, S7O a month.
 Stationery steam engineers, and chief stationary engineers, $11O a month; stationary firemen and power house oilers $90, locomotive boiler mum of fifty cents an hour; opera cents an hour.
 Laborers employed in and around shops, round houses, stations, store houses and warehouses (eXcepting harbor employees, to be provided for separately such as engine watchmen and wipers, fire builders, ashpit, boil CT workers, flue laborers, truckers, stowers, shippers, coal passers, and coal chute men, 31 cents an hour, with maximum of 43 cents an hour, other common labor in these departments, 28 cents an hour, with maximum of forty cents an hour.
 In the maintenance of way depart ment, those receiving S25-a-month or 12-cents-an-hcur increases over the pay of last January 1, together with the minimum for each class, are as follows:
 Foreman of the kinds of work known as building, bridge painter, signal, construction, mason and con. crete, water supply, maintainer and plumbing $115 a month; for assistant foreman of these classes, and for fore men of classes known as coal chute, coal wharf, fence gang, and for ditch ing and hoisting engineer and bridge inspector $105 month.
 Track foremen $100 a month; as- sistant trank foremen, five cents an hour above rate paid laborers when they supervise.
 Mechanics in maintenance of way and bridge building departments who were not included in wage advances for shop crafts several weeks ago, 53 cents an hour; helpers and mechanics in these departments, not provided for in the wage order affecting shop men, 43 cents an hour.
 Common laborers, 28 cents an hour, with maximum of 40 cents.
 Draw bridge tenders and assistants piledriver, ditching and hoisting fire men, bumper engineers and bumpers, crossing watchmen or flagmen, lamp lighters, add 1925 month to wages of January l.
 Coach cleaners are to receive al minimum of 28 cents an hour, with maximum of forty cents. This is or dered as a supplement to the action affecting shopmen.
 For groups not specifically men, toned among the preceding classifi- cations, the standard increases of $25 a month or IF cents an hour were ordered.
 In no cases are wages received un- der the general age advance order to