Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-20

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departments, fifteen cents an hour.
Laborers employed in shops and
roundhouses, ten cents an hour.
Mechanics helpers in bridge and
building departments, track laborers,
bridge tenders, hosting firemen, pumper
engineers, crossing watchmen or flag
men and lamp lighters and tenders,
eight and one half cents an hour.
Train dispatchers are given an in
crease of thirteen cents an hour and
yardmasters and assistant yardmasters,
fifteen cents an hour.
Aid Clerical Forces
The following increases are added TO
the established rates for clerical and
station forces: ....
Storekeepers, chief clerks. foremen
and other clerical supervisory forces.
clerks with one or more years. railroad
experience, train and engine crew
callers, assistant stationmasters, train
announcers, gatemen and baggage and
parcel room employees, thirteen cents an
hour.
Janitors, elevator and telephone .op-
orators, watchmen, employees operating
Office appliances and similar work, ten
cents an hour.
Freight handlers or truckers, twelve
cents an hour.
All common laborers in and around
stations, storehouses and warehouses.
not otherwise provided for, eight and
one half cents an hour.
Clerks of less than one years expert
ence, six and one half cents an hour.
Office boys, messengers and other EN-
ployes under eighteen years of age, i've
cents an hour.
Stationary. engine and boiler room
employees were advanced thirteen cents
an hour for engineers, hremen and
oilers. while water tenders and coal
| nassers receive ten cent increase.
In the signal department, foremen,
inspectors. maintainers. signal men and
their assistants, thirteen cents an hour I;
helpers. ten cents an hour.
The decision provides that employees in
the departments named who are proper
iv before the board and not otherwise
nroyided for shall receive an increase
equal to that established for the near =
est respective classes.
1.-THE intent of this article" the de-
cision says, Isis to extend this decision
to a miscellaneous class OF supervisors
and employees. practically. impossible OF
specific classifications, and at the same
, time insure to them the same consdera =
tion and rate increase as provided for
! analogous service"
Representatives of all the railroad
mems organizations in the country are
, in session to discuss the decision Of the
board.
2 The boards decision, as printed, GOV
{ ers twenty pages. totaling about 600(
! words. Nine pages are devoted to q
review cf tho case, reasons for thu
boards decision, and an estimate o.
the total yearly increase in pay re-
< sulting from the decision.
t The other eleven pages give the in
I creases for more than one hundred
classes of employees affected by the de
0 cision.
: The following new rates are estab
:. lished for employees operating railroad
: car floats, lighters, ferries and tug
= boats in harbor service:
New York Harbor = Ferryboats
Masters and pilots, 1920 per month
. first officers. $3.50; tugboats and steam
{ lighters: Masters and pilots, ..S22O
pilots in South Amboy, Perth Ambo!
= and Port Reading coal towing lines
9 5000; mates. $3.50. '..
Philadelphia Harbor Rates
u Philadelphia, Camden and Whining
o ton District (rates based on eight hou
: day)-Ferryboats Masters and pilots
$50. 80; extra pilots, S15O.22. Tug
q boats: Masters, S150.06; mates, Sill
- New Orleans, Anchorage, Bato
20 Rouge, Vicksburg, Delta Point, Avon
u dale, Algiers, Harrahan and Colds
% borough District - Southern Pacific
:. Louisiana, Mississippi, Gulf coast line
N and Texas and Pacific boats carryin
= one master. $3.50; two masters, 500
- mates, $140; pilots, $155.
Y Newport News. Hampton Roads an
It Norfolk District-New York, Philadel
Y phia and Norfolk Railroad: Day freigh
: service. tug captains, $3.50: barge cap
tains, S210; Chesapeake and Ohio tu
e mates, $160; steamer master and pilots
# $215; mates, $3.50.
Norfolk Southern tugs: Maste
If (day), $160; captain (night),, $3.50.
e Southern Railroad, Atlantic Coas
# Line ferry and tug captains, $3.50 I
= $3.50; mates, S145 to $3.50. Atlanti
If Coast lines, passenger barge, masters
p. $122.32.
It Port of Baltimore-Baltimore an
'ee Ohio Railroad tugs, masters, S2O1
u mates, $147.
"a Feeling of pessimism was evider
when the union leaders met, and pri
vately they did not hesitate to declar
that a general strike was possibility
Board Appointed by Wilson
y The railway labor board which hande
is down today's decision was created b