New-York tribune., 1919-07-29
Chiefs Get From $92.5O to
500 a Month Increases
and All Deck Officers
Share in the New Scale
Seamen Rush for Berths
Vessels Begin Leaving Dur
ing Evening and Few Days
Will Put Service Normal

The American Steamship Associa-
tion and the United States Shipping
Board reached q satisfactory wage
agreement yesterday with the Ocean
Association Of Marine Engineers and
the Natioaal Marine Engineers Rene
fetal Association, awarding the union
men substantial increases in pay and
terminating the nineteen-day strike,
which tied up hundreds of merchant
ships in American ports.
The striking engineers were notified
to return to ships Immediately after
the wage scale was adopted, and ships
began to make their first unhampered
sailing from the port last night. The
agreement was reached after an all
day conference at the Whitehall Club,
II Battery Place.
Chief engineers were granted in
creases ranging from S925O a month
for men on Class e ships, to $500 4
month for the men on ships of Class
A, which are heavier than 10000 tons.
Their pay is now only $25 less a
month than that of the captains.
Assistants Increased
me nrst onlcerS and first assistant
engineers in the FIVE classes from A
to were granted a fiat increase Of
S35 month. Second assistant engi-
neers were granted $25 month more; !;
third assistant engineers were given
$50 a month more; fourth assistant
engineers, SIS more, and junior engi-
neers $40 month. The second, third,
fourth and juniors had asked for a
fiat increase of $35 a month, but COM
promised
The same scale applies to all licensed
deck officers and the masters, mates
and pilots were notified as soon as
the award was agreed upon. The in
creased pay is effective from the time
the men return to the ships.
Matters Of working conditions and
hours were left to subcommittee
which will meet this week. The ques-
tion of overtime will come before this
body and the union leaders declare
they still dape for overtime at 81 an
hour. Shipowners said that this de-
mand had been waived during the con-
ference.
FRANKLIN D. Mooney, president of the
Porto Rico Line and president Of
the steamship association, headed the
committee for the private owned ships
Captain Frank S. Ferris was present
for the Shipping Board and William S.
Brown, of Buffalo, for the engineers
The wage scale and working rules COM
mittee of the engineers for the At
lantic coast and Gulf district, also
present at the conference, included
Thomas L. Delahunty and Bert L.
Todd, of New York; George H. Wiley,
of Boston, and William H. Hyman, of
Baltimore.
Thousands Eager to Sail
In anticipation of a settlement of
the strike last night thousands of sea-
men, cooks, stewards and firememn be-
sieged the marine agencies to "sign
on" the ships in port. The ship own
ers had previously approved q partial
form of the wage increase and, as the
union leaders predicted, the schedule
was adopted on time.
Both the shipowners and the union
leaders fastened to their Offices after
the settlement. The Porto Rico line
had several ships ready to leave port,
and in many cases the engineers were
already aboard. The local union head
quarters were notified by telephone,
and within q few days normal shipping
conditions will return.
Following is the new monthly wage
schedule: