Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-20
Award Is Retroactive To May
OF 1920; Increase Is
About Sixty Per Cent OF
Amount Workers Demand
ed; Union Leaders Present
When The Decision Is An
nounced.

Chicago, July 2O-The United
States railway labor board today
awarded the nearly 1000, 900 Or
ganized railway workers wage In.
creases totalling $500, ,OOO, 900.
The increase amounts to ap-
prOximately Fl per cent of the
present rates Of pay.
The board assumes as the
basis of this dectsiOn,' the award
says, 1.-The continuance in full
force and effect of the rules,
working conditions and agree
Inents In force under the an
thority Of the United States
railroad administration. The in.
named increases. except as other.
rates of compensation establish
cd by the United States railroad
administration"
The award is retroactive to
May of this year.
The decision of the board
grants to the railroad workers
approximately 60 per cent of the
billion dollar increases which they
sought.
Presidents of all the leading
brotheftoods and representatives
Of the railroad managers were
present when the decision was
made public.
The increases follow: 4
PASSENGER SERVICE
Engineers and Inotornnen, fire
men. helpers, 30 cents q day.
+ FREIGHT 7ERzkyzg1
Engineers, ffremf2, helpers,
41.O4 per day. SsN
YARD SERVICE,
Engineers ffiremen, helpers. ,18
centsyper hour.
PASSENGER SERVICE.
Conductors, ticket collectors,
baggagemen, nagmen and
brakcmen, $50 per month.
SUBURBAN SERVICE.
Passenger employees, $50 per
month. 8ss
FREIGHT SERVICE.
Conductors, flagmen and
: brakemen, 81 .04 per day.
: Superseding rates established
By the railroad administration,
the board fixed the following
schedules:
YARD SERVICE.
F'oremen, $8.O6 per day; help.
ers, $8.4S; switch tenders. $5.O4.
HOsTI4ER SERVICE.
Outside hostlers, $8.24 per day;
inside hostlers, $3.50 per day;
helpers, $5.O4.
Shop Employees.
The following increases were autl
orized for shop employees:
Supervisory Forces - Machinist
blacksmiths, sheet me
II workers. electrical workers. powe
men, moulders. cupoia tenders al
core e-makers, including those with lie
than four years' experience, all Graf
l3 cents an hour. Regular and help,
and helpers all classes,
cents an hour. Car cleaners cen
IN hour.
Telegraphers, telephone operator
agents. towermen, levermen, tow,
md train. directors, block operate
and staff men. 10 cents an hour.
Agents at small non-telegraph st,
tions cents an hour.
The following increases were gran
I'd maintenance-o of-way and unskillt
Eorces:
CONSTRUCTION forces, their assistant
section, track and maintenance for,
men and assistants. and mechani
in these departments, Is cents q
hour.
Laborers employed in shops al
roundhouses. 10 cents an hour.
Mechanics. helpers in bridge ar
Aa~o - "a Ia hnpnr
common laborers, bridge tender
hoisting firemen, pumper engineer
crossing watchmen or flagmen ar
lamp lighters and tenders, S1a cen
IN hour. s.
Train dispatchers are given an Ii
crease OF 13 cents an hour and yal
masters and assistant yardmasters, :.
cents m hour.
Once Force.
The following increases are addt
to the established rates for cleric
Ind station forces: .s,.
! Storekeepers. chief clerks. forems
md other clerical supervisory force
clerks with one or more years raj
road experience; train and engine ere
callers; assistant station master
train announcers, gatemen and bal
cents IN hour.
{ Janitors, elevator and telephoi
watchmen, employees, ope
Afing ofiice appliances and simfli
work, 10 cents an hour.
Freight handlers and truckers. ]
cents m hour.
All common laborers In and arour
stations, store-houses, warehouse
not otherwise provided. SA cents I
hour. s ~ 3S, is5. T. &.
& once boys, messengers and 9TH