Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-07-23
Increase Affects Every De-
partment of the Service
Means Much to Montpelier
Railroad Men Retroactive
to May First. I

The United States Railway
Board Tuesday awarded the nearly
100000 organized workers wage
increases bOtalling 5000, ,OOO,OOO
The increases average approx
imately Fl per cent of the present
rates of pay and are retroactive to
May 4, 1920.
The decision of the board grants
to the railway workers approxt-
mately sixty per cent of the bill
lion dollar increase which they
sought.
Presidents of all the leading
brOtherhOOds and representatives
of the railroad managers were pre-
sent when the decision was made
public.
1.-THE board assumes as the basis
of this decision," the award says,
1.-The continuance in full force and
effect of the rules, working condi-
tions and agreements in force un-
der the authority of the United
States railroad administration.
The intent of this decision is that
the named increase except as other
wise stated shall be added to the
rates of compensation and estab-
Ished by the u. s. railroad adj
ministration."
The increases follow:
Passenger Service
Engineers and motormen, firemen,
helpers, 80 cents per day. Conduct
ors, ticket collectors, baggagemen,
flagmen and brakemen, $50 a month
Suburban passenger employees, $40
per month.
Freight Service
Engineers, firemen, helpers, 18
$104 per day. Conductors, flagmen
and brakemen, S1.04 per day. Su-
perseding rates established by the
railroad administration the board
fixed the following schedules:
Yard Service
Engineers, firemen, helpers, Is
cents per hour. Foremen $6.96 pei
day; inside hostlers $500 per days
helpers, $5.04 per day.
Employees of Shops
The following increases were au-
thorized for shop employees:
Supervisory forces-Machinist
boilermakers, blacksmiths, sheet
metal workers, electrical workers
powermen, moulders, Cupalo tend
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with less than four years experience
all crafts, LIZ cents and hour. Regu-
lar and helper apprentices and help
ers, all classes, 13 cents an hour. Car
cleaners five cents an hour.
Telegraphers, telephone operators
agents, towermen, levermen, lower
and train directors, block operators
and staff men, 10 cents an hour
Agents at small non-telegraph sta
tions,. five cents an hour.
Maintenance of Way
The following increases were grant
ed maintenance of way and unskiiled
forces
Construction forces, their assist
ants section, track and maintenance
foremen and assistants and mechan.
les in these departments, 15 cents an
hour. Laborers, employees in shops
and round houses, ten cents an hour
Mechanics helps in bridge and build
ing departments, track laborers, com
mon, laborers, bridge tenders, hoist
ing firemen, pump engineers, cross
ing watchmen or flagmen and lamI
lighters and tenders, 81 cents al
hour. Train dispateheTs are given an
increase of 1 8 cents an hour and yarc
masters and assistant yard masters
15 cents an hour.
Janitors, elevator and telephon,
operators, watchmen, employees op
Grating office appliances and simi
liar work, 10 cents an hour. Freigh,
handlers or truckers, IL cents al
hour. All common laborers in ant
around stations, storehouses and
warehouses, not otherwise provided
for, 811a cents an hour. Clerk of lesi
than one years experience, s X cent
an hour. Office boys, messengers and
other employees under IS years o.
age, five cents an hour. Stationary
engine and boiler room employees
were advanced 3 cents an hour fol
engineers, firemen and oilers, while
water tenders and coal passers re
ceiye a ten cent increase.
In the signal department foremen
inspectors, maintenace, signalmeI
and their assistants, 13 cents "A
hour; helpers 10 cents an hour.