Arizona republican., 1920-07-21
AU Elm ployes To Benefit By
 Board Ruling
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 CHICAGO, July 20-Increases pro- vided in the award of the railway la bor board, as they affect operating
 trainmen and skilled craftsmen, fol- low:
 Passenger Service
 Engineers and motormen, firemen, helpers 80 cents per day.
 Conductors. ticket collectors, bag gage men, flagmen and brakemen, $50 per month.
 Suburban service. passenger em- ployes. $50 per month.
 Freight Service
 Engineers. firemen. helpers, S1-oz
 Conductors, flagmen and brakemen. $1.04 per day.
 Superseding rates. established by the railroad administration. the board fixed the following schedules:
 Yard Service
 Engineers, firemen, helpers. IS cents per hour.
 Foremen. ss.ss per day; helpers. $6.4s; switch tenders. s5.o4.
 Hostler Service
 Outside hostlers. S6.24 per day; in side hostlers. $5.60 per day; helpers, $5.04
 The following increases were author ized for shop employees:
 Supervisory forces: Machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths. sheet metal I men. moulders. cupola tenders and core makers. including those with less than four years experience, all crafts. 15 cents an hour. Regular and helper apprentices and helpers, all classes. 13 cents an hour. Car cleaners five cents an hour. Photographers, telephone operators. agents. towermen. levermen. tower and train conductors, block operators and staff men. 10 cents an hour. Agents at small non-telegraDh sta tions. five cents an hour. The following increases were granted maintenance of way and unskiiled forces:
 UnskiIIed Workers Get Big Boost
 Construction forces. their assistants, section. track and maintenance fore men and assistants in mechanics in these departments. 15 cents an hour. Laborers employed in shops and round houses. ten cents an hour. Mechanics helpers in bridge and building departments, track laborers, common Iaborers, bridge tenders. l hoisting firemen, bumper engineers, crossing watchmen or flagmen and lamp lighters and tenders, 8 1-2 cents l an hour.
 Train despatchers are given an in- crease of 13 cents an hour and yard masters and assistant yardmasters, 1s l cents an hour. i The following increases are added to the established rates for clerical and 1 station forces. i Storekeepers. chief clerks. foremen and other clerical supervisory forces clerks with one or more years railroad i experience. train and engine crew i callers, assistant stationmasters. train 1 announcers, gatemen and baggage and parcel room employees, 13 cents an ] hour.
 Janitors. elevator and telephone 1 operators. watchmen, employees oper- ating office appliances and similar i work. ten cents an hour. l Freight handlers or truckers, r cents an hour. 1 All common Iaborers in and around stations. store houses and warehouses not otherwise provided for. 1-2 cents an hour.
 Clerks of less than one years ex- perience. 1-2 cents an hour. Office boys. messengers and other employees under Is years of age, five cents an hour.
 Stationary engine and boiler room employees were advanced 13 cents ar 1 hour for engineers, firemen and l oilers; while water tenders and coa passers receive a ten cent increase. l In the signal department. foremen | inspectors, maintainerss signal meT and their assistants. 13 cents an hour; | helpers, 10 cents an hour. I The decision provides that em- ployes in the departments named whC | are properly before the board and not 1 otherwise provided for shall receive l an increase equal to that established for the nearest respective classes