Republican farmer., 1920-07-23
RAILROAD RAISE IS
 GIVEN
,ooo Employes to Receive Increases Of 21 Per Cent. Retroac- tive to May Penn sylvania Road to Let 12,OOO Men Go.

Chicago, July 20-The railway la bor board today awarded 100000 organized railway workers wage in creases totalling s6o0,o00,0o0. The increases are approximately 21 per cent.
 'NThe board assumes the basis of this decision" the award says, "the of the rules, working conditions and agreements in force under the au- thority of the United States Railroad Administration. The intent of this decision is that the named increase, except as otherwise stated, shall be added to the rates of compensation established by the United States Railway Administration. The award is retroactive to May 1 of this year. The decision of the board grants l to the railroad workers approximate l ly sixty per cent. of the billion dollar increases which they sought. Presidents of all the leading broth | railroad managers were present when | the decision was made public. 1 The increases follow: Passenger service: l Engineers and motormen, firemen,
 helpers, 80 cents per day. | Freight service: l Engineers, f1remen, helpers, S104 | per day.
 Yard service:
 Engineers, fremen, helpers 8 cents per hour.
 Passenger service: Conductors, ticket collectors, bag
 gagemen, f1agmen and brakemen, $50 per month.
 Suburban service, passenger em- ployes $50 per month. | Freight service:
 Conductors, f1agmen and brakemen $1.04 per day.
 Superceding rates established by
 the railroad administration, the board
 fixed the following schedules:
 Yard service:
 Foremen s6.ee per day; helpers
 s6.4s; switch tenders, $5.o4. Host1er service:
 Outside hostlers $6.24 per day; in
 side hostlers s5.60 per day; helpers , $5.O4.
 The following increases were au. thorized for shop employees: ,l Supervisory forces-machin boil ermakers, blacksmiths, sheet meta workers. electrical workers, power men, moulders, cupo1a tenders ant coremakers, including those with les. than four years experience, al 7 crafts, 13 cents an hour. Regula 7 and helper apprentices and helpers
 all classes, 3 cents an hour- Ca = cleaners five cents an hour. Telegraphers, telephone operators ) agents, towermen, lovermen, towe f and train directors, block operator ) and staff men, ten cents an hour
 Agents at small non-telegraph sta t tions, five cents an hour.
 The following increas ses were grant e ed maintenance of way and unskillet |. forces:
 s Construction forces, their assist : ants, section, track and maintenance r foremen and assistants. and mechan e ics in these departments, Is cents al d hour.
 K Laborers employed in shops an, t roundhouses, 10 cents an hour
 Mechanics helpers in bridge an, r building departments, track laborers common laborers, bridge tenders
 hoisting fremen, bumper engineers
 crossing watchmen or fagmen an n lamp fighters and tenders, S1z cent ? an hour.
 Train despatchers are given an in
 crease of 1 3 cents an hour. and yard
 masters and assistant yardmasters
 cents an hour. N Storekeepers, chief, clerks, foreme L and other clerical supervisory force
 clerks with one or more years rail " road experience, train and engin 'o crew callers, assistant stationmaste, j. train announcers, gatemen and bag II gage and parcel room employees, l. cents an hour. l. Janitors. elevator and telephon
 
 le ating office appliances and simila l. work, 70 cents an hour. n Freight handlers or truckers, 1 d cents an hour c. All common laborers in and aroun le stations, storehouses and warehouse s. not otherwise provided for. 8 1z cen C. an hour. le Clerks of less than one years e. g perience, 6 F cents an hour. T. Office boys, messengers and otht e. employees under IS years of age, if,
 cents an hour. ly Stationary engine and boiler roo
 employees were advanced Is cents .
 hour for engineers, fremen and oi
 CTS, while water tenders and co r passers received a ten cent increas -o In the signal department foreme CT inspectors, maintainers, signal mt ad and their assistants were increased 69 cents an hour; helpers 10 cents on hour.
 Tt The new railroad unions which ca ss ed the series of strikes this spring a on ter their members had broken aw
 from the recognized brotherhood 1T, l will submit the boards decision to on referendum vote of their mempersh! us John Grunau. President of the Cf Id cago Yardmens Association announ or ed today.
 H. Rejecting the demands for the T
 organized rail unions for increases
 talling approximately one billion d.
 lars the board decided approximate IG 60 percent of that sum would be .et just increase to meet present livi he conditions. I'd, Whether the award as given W y's stave off the threat of a general ra ate road strike remains to be seen. T Ld- leaders of practically every one