The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-20
Railroad Wage Board Appointed by
President Grants Wage Increase to
Rail Workers Amount to Six Hundred
Million Dollars; Union Officials Will
Probably Submit For a Referendum


general conference tonight
The union men as a whole do not
seem satisfied with the increase au.
| thorized. but there was no talk prior
to the executive session of a general
strike. The belief grew that the lead
ers would submit the question to
referendum vote of their men.
Passenger Service Increase
The increases follow:
Passenger SERVICE Engineers and
motcrmen, firemen, helpers so cents
per day
Freight service: Engineers, firemen.
helpers, s1.O4 per day.
Yard service: Engineers, firemen,
helpers 1S cents per hour.
Passenger service: Conductors, ticket
collectors, baggagemen, flagmen and
brakemen, $50 per month. Suburban
service, passenger employees. $50 per
month.
Freight Service Increase
Freight service: Conductors, flag
men and brakemen, s1O4 per day.
! Superceding rates established BY the
| railroad administration fixed the fol-
| lowing schedules:
Yard service foremen, $500 per
day; helpers, s6.4S; switch tenders.
/ S5.04.
Fostler service: Outside hostlers,
1924 per day. inside nostlers, $500
per day; helpers, s5O4
( Shop Employees
! The following increases We're au-
thorized for shop employees:
Supervisory forces: Machinists, boil
or makers, blacksmlths, sheet metal
workers, electrical workers. power
men, mouders, cupola tenders, and
core-makers, including those with less
than four years experience, all crafts
10 cents an hour. Regular and helper
apprentices and helpers, all classes, 13
cents an hour. Car cleaners five
cents an hour.
Telegraph Operators
| Telecraphers, telephone operators,
agents. tower men, lever men, tower
and train directors, block operators
and staff men, 10 cents an hour.
Agents at small non-telegraph sta
tions, five cents an hour.
Representatives of all the railroad
mems organizations. were in session
here today to discuss the question OF
railroad labor board
Decision Covers 20 Pages
The boards decision as printed, COW
ers 20 pages. totaling about 5000
| words. Nine pages are devoted to
review Of the case reasons for the
boards decision, and an estimate Of
the total yearly increase. IN pay re-
sultiig from the decision.
The other eleven pages give the in
creases for more than 100 classes Of
employees affected by the decision. The
increases are presented in tabular
form on the basis, in the main, OF
hourly increase; no attempt is made
10 figure the preceding increase or
show the present rate Of pay.
Way and Unskilled Forces
The following increases were granted
maintenance of way and unskilled
forces:
Construction forces, their assistants,
section, track and maintenance forenen
and assistants in these departments
Is cents an hour.
Laborers employed in shops and
round houses, 10 cents an hour.
Mechanics helpers in bridge and
building departments. track laborers,
common laborers, bridge tenders, hoist
ing firemen. pumper engineers, cross.
ing watchmen or flagmen and lamp
lighters and tenders SIP cents an
hour.
Train dispatchers are given an In.
crease Of l3 cents an hour and yard
masters and assistant yardmastera
Is cents an hour.
Clerical and Station Forces
The following increases are added 20
the established rates for clerical and
station forces:
Store keepers, chief clerks, foremen
and other clerical supervisory forces,
clerks with one or more years rail-
road experience, train and engine
crew callers, assistant station masters,
train announcers, gatemen and bag.
gage and parcel room employees. ls
cents an hour.
Janitors, elevator and telephone ope.
rators, watchmen, employees operating
office appliances, and similar work
~ cents an hour.
Common laborers in and around sta.
tons, store houses and warehouses,
not otherwise provided for. l-2 cents
an hour.
Clerks of less than one years exper.
ience, l-2 cents an hour.
Office boys, messengers and other
employees under IS years of ags,
cents an hour.
Stationery engineers and boiler room
employees We're advanced 13 cents IN
hour for engineers flremen and oilers
while water tenders and coal passers
received l0-cent increase.
In the signal department, foremen.
inspectors, maintainers, signal men
and their assistants, l3 cents an
hour, helpers, 10 cents an hour.
The decision provides that employees
in the department names who are
properly before the board and not
otherwise provided for shall receive
an increase equal to that establishes
for the nearest respective classes.
"The intent of this article" the de.
cision says, "is to extend this decision
to a miscellaneous class Of supervisors
and employees, practically imposibls
of specific classification, and at the
same time insure to them the same
consideration and rate increases ~
provided for analogous service"
Car Floats--Tug Boats
The following new rates are estab.
lished for employees operating railroad
car floats, lighters, fire and tug boats
in the service.
New York harbor ferry boats: Mas
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