Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-21
MILLIONS ADDED TO
RAIL MEMS PAY BY
RULING LABOR BOARD


Train dispatchers are given an
increase of 10 cents an hour and !
and assistant yard
masters. / 5 cents an hour.
The following Increases are ado
ed to the established rates for cler-
zeal and station forces:
Storekeepers, chief clerks. fore
men and other clerical supervisory
forces, clerks with one or more
years railroad experience, train
and engine crew callers, assistant
station masters, train announcers,
gatemen and baggage and parcel
room employees, i 3 cents an hour.
Janitors, elevator and telephone
operators, watchmen, employers
operating office appliances and
similar work, 10 cents an hour.
Freight handlers or truckers, u
cents an hour.
All common laborers in and
around stations, storehouses and
warehouses. not otherwise provided
for, sh cents an hour.
Clerks of less than one years
experience, ~ cents an hour.
Office boys, messengers and
other employees under Is years Of
age. cents an hour.
Stationary engine and boiler
room employees were advanced ID
cents an hour for engineers. fire
men and oilers, while water tenders
and coal passers receive 10-cent
increase.
In the signal department, fore
men, inspectors maintainers, sig
nal men and their assistants, 13
cents an hour; helpers, 10 cents an
hour,
Demands for substantial wage
increases for nearly all classes of
the 100000 railroad employees
have been nending since late last
summer. These demands, first
presented at different times to the
railroad administrations board on
wages and working conditions, were
unsettled when government opcr-
alton of the railroads was ended,
and In turn were referred to the
railroad labor board, which was
created under the transportation
act
Some few of the classes of or
ganized employees have not pressed
formal demands but have insisted
that their wages be increased Il
advances were granted other re.
lated classes of workers. The
principal demands of tho leading
unions follow:
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men; Passenger brakemen be in
creased from $3.50 a thirty-dav
month to $3.50 for twenty-s' day
month; baggagemen no increased
from s124.SO for thirty day month
to $3.50 for twenty-six- day month:
assistant conductors ne increased
from $144 for thirtv-daY month to
$179 for twenty six-1ay month;
freight brakemen In valley terri
tory be increased from 81 0S to
s5.SS a day with 10 Ger rent IN
crease over these rates wherever
the grade exceeds is per cent,
yard foremen or conductors be in
reased from $3.50 to $40 n day;
yard helpers Or braknmru be In
creased from IS to s6 90 n day,
switch tenders be increased from
81 to $3.50 a day; also time and
one half for all Sunday and holiday
service and guaranty of twenty
six days a month for regular en-
ployes in all classes of service.
Order of Railway Conductors:
Passenger conductors to be in
creased from $3.50 for thirty-day
month to 1925 for thirty day
month. through freight conductors
be increased from $5.40 to $7.65
day in valley territory, with in
creases in the mountain rate from
1851 to 1897 day local freight
conductors be increased from 1892
to 1888 a day in valley territory,
with increase In mountain rate
from 1925 to 1913 a day,
brotherhood Of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen: Road freight
| firemen to be increased an aver
age of $1.S4 day over present
rates; yard freight firemen be IN
creased an average OF $225 day
| over present rates: passenger IRE
men to be increased from present
average of $4.31 a day to $3.50
day. -
brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
gineers: While presenting no spe,
cific requests, notice was served
that the engineers desired increase
proportionate ITO any increases
granted other employees.
All road employees, as distin-
guished from yard employees, IN
the four foregoing organizations,
generally grouped as the Big -Four
brotherhoods, now get proportion
ately increased daily pay when
thew make mileage in excess OF
| 100 miles and in freight service
get time and one-half for time
consumed in excess of what would
| be required on the guaranteed
speed basis, which Is two and one
half miles an hour.
Switchmens Union OF North
America: Foremen or conductors
be increased from 1888 to si.50
day and IS night; helpers or
brakemen be increased from 80
to 81 a day and $3.50 night;
switch tenders to receive same
rate as helpers; time and one
half for Sundays and holidays.
Maintenance of Way and En-
, pinehouse Laborers: Rate for all
mechanics in the maintenance OF
way department to be increased
from basic rate of 81 cents an
hour to uniform rate of 6S cents
an hour; rate Of all trackmen ana
other laborers to be increased
from rates running from 2S cents
to 40 cents an hour to uniform
rates throughout the United States
of 80 cents an hour. Most OF
these employees now receive De-
tween 35 and 40 cents an hour.
Brotherhood of Railroad Sig