New Britain herald., 1920-07-20
TODAY'SR. K. RULING SETTLES LONG FIGHT
Workers in All Branches Have
 Sought More Pay

nearly all classes of the 2,00O,0OO railroad employees have been pending since late last summer. These de- mands, first presented at different times to the Railroad administra- tion's board on wages and working conditions, were unsettled when gov ernment operation of the railroads was ended and in turn were referred to the railroad labor board, which was created under the Transportation act.
 Some few of the classes of or ganized employees have not pressed formal demands but have insisted that their wages be increased if ad- vances were granted to other related classes of workers. The principal demands of the leading unions follow:
 Traimmcn's Demands.
 Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen: Passenger brakemen be increased from s120 a 3o-day month to s150 for a 26-day month: baggagemen be increased from s124.s0 for a 30-day month to s160 for 26-day month; assistant conductors be increased from S144 for 30-day month to s179 for 2S-day month; freight brake men in valley territory be increased from s4.0s to s5.ss a day with 10 per cent. increase over these rates wher- ever the grade exceeds Is per cent. i: yard foremen or conductors be in- creased from s5.33 to s7.20 a day; yard helpers or brakemen be in creased from s to s690 a day; switch tenders be increased from s4 to s5.90 a day; also time and one-half for all Sunday and holiday service and a guaranty of 2o days a month for regular employees in all classes of service
 White Conductors Asked
 Order of Railway Conductors: Passenger conductors be increased from s1so for a 30-dsy month to s225 for a 26-day month: through freight conductors be increased from s5.4o to s7.65 a day in valley terri tory. with increases in the mountain rate from s5.s1 to ss.37 a day: local freight conductors be increased from s5.92 to sS.3s a day in valley terri tory, with increase in mountain rate from s6.26 to se.15 a day.
 Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire men and Enginemen: Road freight fremen to be increased an average of s1.S4 a day over present rates; yard freight firemen to be increased an average of s2.25 a day over pres ent rates; passenger firemen to be in- creased from present average of s4.31 d day to s6.50 day
 Brotherhood of Locomotive En- sineers: While presenting no spe- cific requests. notice was served that the engineers desired increases pro- portionate to any increases granted to other employees.
 All road employees. as distinguished from yard employees, in the four foregoing organizations, generally grouped as the Big Four brother hoods. now get proportionately in creased daily pay when they make in excess of 100 miles and in freight service get 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.
 Demands Of Others.
 Switchmen's Union of North Amer ica: Foremen or conductors be increas- ed from $5.33 to s7.50 d day and $S a night; helpers or brakemen be in- creased from S5 to s7 a day and s7.50 a night; switch tenders to receive same rates as helpers; time and one- half for Sundays and holidays.
 Maintenance of Way and Engine house Iaborers: Rate for all me chanics in the maintenance of way department 10 be increased from basic rate of 53 cents an hour to uniform rate of 6s cents an hour; rate of all trackmen and other la borers to be increased from rates run  hour to uniform rates throughout the United States of so cents an hour Most of these employees now receive between S5 and 40 cents an hour.
 Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America: An increase of approxi- nately 10 cents an hour for each class of signal employees.
 Brotherhood of Railway Clerks: An increase of at least 20 cents an hour to January 1, 1920, and n addition the re-establishment of between certain classes If employees: also immediate elim- nation of the existing 43-cent an lour maximum rate for freight hand CTS and other labor in freight houses, etc, and time and one half for Sundays and holidays.
 Order of Railroad Photographers: That rates received by telegraphers ,n the Southern Pacific system, which were said to be practically the high est in the country on any important shall he taken as basis, he rates of all other telegraphers put on the same basis. and then an increase of r cents an hour added o rates so established: also increase O approximately S5 cents an hour
  i7 and 72 cents an hour.