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DEMANDS OF
RAILROAD MEN
Labor Board Award Will Affect
100000 Employees.
EX5 ECT DECISION THIS week
Granting of the Schedules as Submit
ted Means Heavy Burdens For the
Carriers.

ted Means Heavy Burdens For the
Carriers.
Washington, July 12.-Demands for
substantial wage Increases foI. nearly
all classes Of the 100000 railroad
employees have been pending since late
last summer
These demands first presented at
different times to the railroad admin
lStrations board on wages and work
ing conditions, were unsettled when
government operation of the railroads
wan ended, and in turn were referred
to the rOalrOad labor board. which
was created under the transportation
act
The board is expected to announce
its award this week.
The principal demands of the lead.
ing unions follow:
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Passenger brakemen be increased fn.m
S120 3O-day month to $50 for 26
day month; baggagemen be increased
from $124S0 for 30-day month to S16O
ors be increased from $144 for 3O-day
month to $179 for 26-day month:
freight brakemen in valley territory be
increased from $4.OS to S5.OS a dav
with 10 per cent increase over these
rates wherever the grade exceeds Is
per cent; yard foremen or conductors
be increased from $5.33 to $7.2O a day..
yard helpers or brakemen be increas-
ed from 50 to $500 Il day; switch ten
ders be increased from 81 to $500
day; also time and one-half for all
Sunday and holiday service and a
guaranty of 26 days a month for reg
Hlar employees in all classes of serv-
ice. =
Order of Railway Conductors! Pas
senger conductors be increased from
$3.50 fer 30-day month to $225 for &C.
day month"; through-freight conduct
OrS be increased from $40 to S7.6j
day in valley territory, with increas-
eS in the mountain rate from S5.S1 to
1881 day; lOcal-freight conductors
be increased from 1892 to $S.3S a day
in valley territory, with increase in
mountain rate from 1920 to S9.13 a
day.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Enginemen: Road freight firemen
to be increased an average of $1S4
a day over present rates; yard freight
firemen be increased an average of
1925 a day over present rates; pas
Senger firemen to be increased from
present average of S431 a day to
$3.50 a day.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS: While presenting no specific re-
quests, notice was served that the
engineers desired increases proper
tionate to any increases granted other
employees.
All road employees, as distinguished
from yard employees, in the four fore
going organizations, generally group,
ed as the Big Four Brotherhoods, now
get proportionately increased daily pay
when they make mileage in excess If
100 miles and in freight service GIT
time and one-half for time consumed
in excess of what would be required
on the guaranteed speed basis, which
is two and One-half miles an hour.
Switchmen's Union of North Amer
lea: FOremen or conductors be in
creased from $5.53 to $3.50 a day
and IS a night; helpers or brakemen
be increased from 81 to 81 a day and
$3.50 a night; switch tenders to re-
ceive same rate as helpers; time and
one-half for Sundays and holidays.
Maintenance of Way and Engine
house Laborers: Rate for all mechan-
les in the maintenance of way depart
ment to be increased from basic rate
of 80 cents an hour to uniform rate
of 6S cents an hour; rate of all track
men and other laborers TO be increas-
ed from rates running from % cents
to 40 cents an hour to uniform rates !
throughout the United States of 80
cents an hour. Most of these EN-
ployes now receive between 80 and
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks: An
increase of at least 20 cents an hour
retroactive to January l, 1920, and in
addition the re-eStabliShment of diff
ferentials between certain classes of
EMPLOYEES: also immediate elimination
of the existing Accent an hour maxi
mum rate for freight handlers and
other labor in freight houses, store
rooms, etc, and time and one-haf for
Sundays and holidays.
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
That rates received by telegraphers
on the Southern Pacific system, which
were said to be practically the high
est in the country on any important
railroad, shall be taken as a basis,
the rates of all other telegraphers put
on the tame basis, and then an in
crease of II cents an hour added to
rates so established; also increase to
approximately s. cents an hour for
employees now generally receiving g.
and - cents an hour.