Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-04-12
RAILROAD WORKERS
WIN WAGE INCREASE
Advances Ordered Affect 100000
Engineers, Fircmcn, Train
men and Conductors.
PAY ROLL NOW 3 BILLIONS
Under Public Operation Railway
Employees Get Billion Dol
lars More Than Formerly.
PAY ROLL NOW 3 BILLIONS
fRy Associated Pres. |

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON. April ll.-Wasc ad :
vances aggrcgatinS sS5.Oo0ooo were
ordered today oy Director General
Hines for 100000 railroad engineers.
firemcn, trainmcn and conductors in
members OF the big four" railway
crhoods-rctroactive since Jan
uary l. 1919.
The brotherhood demands for time
and-a- half pay for overtime was grant, =
ed only for mon engaged in yard ser
vice and for the others this question
VA: referred to the railroad admins
already created for Consideration OF
disputes relating 10 railway trainmcn
inS TO contemplated schedule. ono
ot the aims of which was to restore
the wage relationship existing before
The railroads incrcasc in wages last
year. Tho average adva nee in pay
Psr man per year will be about si60.
Complete Wnr's Wage Cyclc.
This action practically completed the
war cycle of wage increases granted
railroad men since the government
t2ok t,3'lo, over ,ra management of tho roads
acted on.
r,1s lnelqains nlY s. todsys order the sggre
railroad administration to the 1000. 900
railroad employees is at the rate OF
average per man. Thus the total, pay
nearly TO 5000, 100000 = year from
600 OF January l, 1918. when tho roads
parSsd rS into 900 ,ne neo goyernment's govern hands.
o1 nc nc HSo,eoe,9oo added to the pay rolls
hoods brings the total granted this
S,aus TGar o GmpI9IHs III ihs iast Gnn three
I, ts
takes into consideration the s140.oo0.
geo estimated as the brotherhood s
last year, and s5oeceoocS Ssst esimataS ,aGrisss s
She fruit for these men from the Adam
son act. which, established a basic
effect, the 6rotherhoods' pleas for
time and Il half for overtime
Back Pay Since january I.
Back pay for work since January /
Will be given the brotherhood men as
. out the amount due. This may ;A take Iet 4 :.
Gnth amen ofS tse to se%pele
tor-General Hines explained that the
same principles were followed as were
during the war. These principles in. in.
cludcd the adjustment of wages 10 liv-
ing costs and TO various classes of
employment.
In the first general wage advance
made by the railroad administration
raiIpoad Wage ae eonmiasion of The
mately 100000, 900 year was DIS
About sl4o.o0O,o 900 of this Went to
trainmcn and engincmen and about
sa60.00e.oO0 to other employees.
On supplemental orders. about $780,
100000 was added 10 pay rolls OF the
shopmen, about the same to mainte-
nance e-of-way men and clerks, and
about s45.00o,oo0 TO tclegraphers and
station agents. Railway accountants
calculated that in 1916 and 1917, the
years Immediately preceding govern
ment control, the railway companies
increased wages $3.50 100000.
Aggregate Advance Billion Dollars.
With the sSa2.O00OO0 added by the
railroad administration, the aggregate
advance of railroad mems wages in
three years is set AZ approximately ST.
l,2U0uOD0. or about $3.50 per man.
The railroad pay roll in 1917 was cal
culated at Sl..50 000 900: in 1918 So
a3S.00o,000, and this year at S".S2a.-
100000
Comparatively small increases in pay
are expected soon Tor dinng-car and
sleeping car employees.
D!rector-Gcncral.H Hines. in his analy-
sis OF wage situation under govern
ment control, explained that at the
end of last year employees wages
had been raised to Il rate which would
have added s754,S11.o00 to the aggrc-
gate railroad pay roll if it had been
effective throughout the entire year.
lie added TO this 7he sum OF S67-
100000 TO cover increases for the
brotherhood men.