The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-20
$6o0, GOO, 900 RAISE
 FOR RAILROAD MEN

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 masters and assistant yardmasters 1 5 cents an hour.
 Storekeepers, chief clerks, foremen and other clerical supervisory forces clerks with one or more years rail- road experience, train and engine crew callers, assistant stationmaster, train announcers, gatemen and bag gage and parcel room employees. 3 cents an hour.
 Janitors, elevator and telephone operators, watchmen, employees oper- ating office appliances and similar work, 10 cents an hour. Freight handlers or truckers, 12 cents an hour.
 All common laborers in and around stations, storehouses and warehouses, not otherwise provided for. 8 F cents an hour.
 Clerks of less than one years ex- perience, 6H 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 hour for engineers, f1remen and oil CTS, while water tenders and coal passers received a ten cent increase. In the signal department foremen, inspectors, maintainers, signal men and their assistants were increased 12 cents an hour; helpers 10 cents an hour.
 The new railroad unions which call | ed the series of strikes this spring af- ter their members had broken away l from the recognized brotherhoods, l will submit the boards decision to a 1 referendum vote of their membership, l John Grunau, President of the Chi cago Yardmen's Association announc- | ed today.
 | Rejecting the demands for the re- | organized rail unions for increases to- l talling approximately one billion dol
 lars the board decided approximately | 60 percent of that sum would be a | just increase to meet present living conditions,
 Whether the award as given will stave off the threat of a, general rail- l road strike remains to be seen. The | leaders of practically every one of | the sixteen big railroad unions were | present when Judge R. M. Barton,
 chairman of the board, handed down the decision. They left imm ediately | to present award to 1000 general
 chairmen, who had gathered here to
 pass on it. The union presidents re- | fused to make any comment before
 the meeting. The approximate terms
 of the decision had been known to them yesterday and they believed then their men would stay in line at
 least until a referendum vote could be
 taken. Nearly a month will be needed for the referendum.
 ! 12.ooo MEN TO GO.
 l Philadelphia, July 20-With the l statement that 'it is time the men got
 down to work" the Pennsylvania
 Railroad made known today that
 within the next few days it will dis miss approximately 12,000 employees All are in the eastern region, which is bounded on the west by Altoona, the
 north by Lake Ontario, the south by i Washington and the east by the At lantic Ocean. Virtually every class of workers is affected except en-
 gineers, f1remen, conductors, brake men and switchmen.
 1 It is estimated that between 1,0o(
 and 1,5O0 men will be layed off 1T Philadelphia and suburbs.
 The notices of dismissal will be eff
 fective five days after their receipt , which, in many cases, mean today. ii Clerks, shopmen and maintenance
 of way men are the ones most af fected by the order, hich came aftel
 a conference of Elisha Lee and gen eral officials of the Eastern region, O. ] which, as Vice President, he ha , ] charge.
 l The statement added that it wa. l hoped to place the dismissed men il
 other regions.
 s l. While some statesmen. worry abou
 lavish expenditure, others see no oc l' casion for alarm, as the money cal I always be borrowed. The politicians see no objection p to the commission form of govern
 ment, provided they get the commis
 aionA