The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
RAILROAD MEN ID
 BE PLEASED WITH
 WAGE AWARD FROM THE LABOR BOARD
Officials of Railway Organ izations Among Wokers Believe the Handling of the Matter Is Satis-
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Disposition among the local railroad men is to accept the award of the United States railway labor board and keep on at work.
 T. P. Kelly, secretary of the local branch of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers, is among those who takes this position.
 Speaking with reference to the award, MT. Kelly says:
 Tt looks pretty good to me and am inclined to believe that the rank and file will accept the award. l am saying this based on what 1 have seen of unofficial reports. Of course. we shall wait the official figures before we enter final decision in the mat ter, but I am inclined to believe that the award will be accepted.
 Tt looks good on paper. If it proves to be what it is on paper. l believe things will be all right.
 W. w. Lane. president of the local organization of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. says:
 CONTINUE WORK
 T hardly know what to say about the award except that, in my opinion, there will be no cessation of work. The award is not what a portion of our membership expected. It seems to be all right so far as the road men are concerned, .but the yard men expected more than the award allows them
 eThe yard men did not receive under the McAdoo award what they thought was coming to them in proportion to
 what other railroad employees were ac- corded, and hence they felt that this award would even things up. That does not appear to have been done to the extent that we had expected. "However, I do not look for any trouble or cessation of work. It is my personal opinion that the men will go straight ahead and will make q further presentation of their case to the board with the hope aDd expecta ton that eventually what they think should be coming to them will be ap corded"
 As far as can be gathered, the Bir- mingham railroad men are prepared to accept the award and go ahead with their work. Here and there some re- view of particular awards may be asked, but, so far as could be gath cred, the award is generally satisfac- tory to the men and fully came up to expectations.
 MUCH MONEY A great deal of money will come to the several thousand railroad men in Birmingham following the award. The wage increases date back to May l, and l each man will receive the. increase of | pay due him for three months. That will amount to several hundred thou sand dollars. It will be a tidy sum with which to face the fall and the Birmin gham merchants will come in for their full share of this extra money | Business men seemed to feel very much like the railroad men. They were 1 agreed that the increase was coming l and is about what they expected. What 1 they like about the matter is that il tends to end prolonged suspense anl uncertainty and to pave the way foi | a more definite state of commercial and industrial affairs.
 1 They said that all that is needed to get everything in pretty fair form is announcement by the interstate com merce commission of its freight anc passenger rate increases. When that lis done, they say the transportation muddle will have been cleared up ane l business will take on new life. l There did not appear to be anywhere lin the community any doubt that the award of the labor board would be ac | cepted. The announcement seemed to limpart distinct feeling of relief 1T all quarters.