The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-07-20
INCREASE TO WORKERS
/. AVERAGES FIFTH MORE
Than PAY AT PRESENT
Here Are New
Rates Of Pay
Board Allows

Chicago, July 20.-The increases
(; allowed by the boards decision to-
day follow:
Passenger service:
Engineers and motormen. fire.
men, helpers, 80 cents per day.
Freight service:
Engineers, firemen, helpers, $1.04
per day.
Yard service:
! Engineers, firemen, helpers, 1S
cents per hour.
Passenger service:
Conductors, ticket collectors,
baggagemen, fagmen and brake
men, $50 per month.
Suburban service, passenger en-
ployes, $50 per month.
Freight service:
Conductors, f1agmen and brake
men. $1.04 per day.
! Superseding rates established by
the railroad administration the
board fixed the following schedules:
Yard service:
| Foremen, 1896 per day; helpers,
|$6.48; switch tenders, $5.0A.
! H0Stler service:
Outside hostlers, 1924 per day:
inside hostlers, $3.50 per day; help
ers, $5.04.
Shop employees:
! The following increases we're
l authorized for shop employees:
:! Supervisory forces:
/, Machinists, boilermakers, black
smiths, sheet metal workers. elec-
trical workers, powermen. molders.
cupola tenders and coremakers.
including those with less than four
years experience. all crafts, 13
cents an hour. Regular and helper
apprentices and helpers, all classes,
13 cents an hour. Car cleaners,
S CENTS AN HOUE
Telegraphers, telephone operat-
ors, agents, towermen, levermen,
tower and train directors, block
operators and staff men, 10 cents
an hour. Agents at small nom
telegraph stations, 5 CENTS AN
HOUR.
Unskilled forces:
The following increases were
granted maintenance of way and
unskilled forces:
Construction forces, their assist
ants, section, track and mainte-
. nance foremen and assistants and
mechanics in these departments
! Is CENTS AN HOUR
Eaborers employed in shops and
round houses, 10 CENTS AN HOUR
Mechanics helpers in bridge and
building departments, track labor
ers, common laborers, bridge ten
| ders, hoisting firemen, pumper en-
gineers, crossing watchmen OF
: flagmen, and lamp lighters, and ten
ders, 81 CENTS AN HOUR.
Train dispatohers are given ar
increase of 13 cents an hour and
yardmasters and assistant yard
masters, Is CENTS AN HOUR.
!. Clerks:
: The following increases ar.
I added to the established rates fol
:, clerical and station forces:
Storekeepers, chief clerks, fore
l men and other clerical supervisory
I forces; clerks with one or more
years railroad experience; train
e engine crew callers; assistant sta
I tionmasters; train announcers
4 gatemen, and baggage and parce
q room employees, 13 CENTS Al
HOUR.
Janitors, elevator and telephone
operators; watchmen, employees
operating Office appliances and sim
liar work, 10 CENTS AN HOUR.
Freight handlers or truckers, 1.
CENTS AN HOUR.
All common laborers in AM
around stations, storehouses AM
warehouses, not otherwise provide,
for 81 CENTS AN HOUR CLERK
Of less than one years experience
8h CENTS AN HOUR-)
Office boys, messengers, an,
J. other employees under IS years o
age, CENTS AN HOUR.
Stationary engine and boilel
room employees were advanced l;
cents an hour for engineers. fire
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d and coal passers receive . II
y cents increase.
It In the signal department fore
,, men, inspectors, maintainers. sig
r nal men and their assistants, i
cents an hour; helpers. 10 cents Al
y hour.
o All Classes Increased.
ei The decision provides that en-
o ployes in the departments name
d who are properly before the boar
+ and not otherwise provided 70
shall receive an increase equal b
g that established for the neares
d respective classes.
y Tho intent of this article" tn
decision says. sis to extend this de
. cisinn 70 . miscellaneous class Q
= supegvisors and employees. pract!
cally Impossible a specific class
4 fications, and 1t the aame time, II
It sure to them the same considerstio
l. and rate increase - provided d
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