Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-17
CUTTERS DEMAND
BIG RAISE IN PAY
c ommittee Announces Terms to
be Presented to New
Labor Board.

Terms on which the railroad qui tiers
will 20 back to work were announced
YESTERDAY afternoon at their meeting IN
Odd Fellows Hall Members Of the
committee which formulated these terms
in Philadelphia said they expected soon
to have a document signed by the chair
man Of the Wage Board the chairman
appointed by the general managers OF the
railroads TO act Tor them and the chair
man appointed by the heads OF the
brotherhOods, announcing that negotla-
tions had begun on the wage question
that all of the railroads would abide by
the award.
The first condition in the document
prepared by the quitters is that all OF
them shall be taken back wit hout loss
/ of seniority rights. Every man OF the
! 1000 at Yesterdays meeting rose and
/ pledged himself not to return to work
/ until all the men who had quit, or who
/ had been dismissed for refusa 10 take
another man 5 Job, were reinstated.
( Other conditions are that the award
/ shall be referred to all the members of the
! brotherhood before the presidents sign it,
and that no contract shall be prepared
/ which would cut off another wage m
/ crease if the cost Of living continues TO
rise. The cutters demand that the
/ raise be made retroactive to June ], 1919.
Time and a half, according TO the
/ scale presented to the board, Is to be
| paid on Sundays and on seven designated
HOLIDAYS, and double time for all tune
over eight hours within twenty-four, on
| Sunday or any holiday All assigned men
are to be guaranteed % working days per
month. Physical examinations are TO
be abolished, with the exception of the
! one now known as preliminary" Any
! old employe who becomes unable to pass
/ the color test is to BE given other en-
ployment at the same rate of pay which
/ he received before.
The wage scale to which 500 COM
! mitteemen from New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Wilmington and other cities
agreed, is as follows:
( General yardmasters, 1926 a month
! yardmasters, 1895 a month; title of as
1 sistant yardmaster to be abolished. Yard
masters to receive one day off in seven,
with full pay, and two weeks with full
pay every year.
Engineers, yard 81 .35 an hour; through
/ freight, 81 so an hour; local freight 81 .62
! an hour; passenger, 81 80 an hour.
Firemen, yard, $7.20 a day; through
freight, $500 a day; local freight, 1920
| a day: passenger, 81 so day.
Hostlers, outside, $500 day; inside
s7.20 day; hostlers' helpers, s6.75 day
Passenger trainmen on local trains,
conductors 81 10 an hour; ticket collec-
tors. S.97 an hour; baggage masters, $50
an hour; baggage masters on certain
/ special express trains, $50 an hour
/ brakemen, $50 an hour.
Through passenger conductors, $3.50
for first eight hours or eighty miles, five
cents a mile thereafter; collectors. 5000
plus FIVE cents a mile after eighty miles
f1agmen, $500 plus FIVE cents; brakemen
s6.54 plus ~ cents.
The scale for freight workers was not
secured completely, but it includes a
increase for fiagmen to 81 go day and foI
brakemen to S7 80 day.
Yardmen, conductors, sl1 an hour
brakemen and switch-tenders, sos an
| hour.
The report of the shopmen's committee
was presented this morning at the meet
ng of shopmen in Odd Fellows Hall.
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