Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-07-20
The increases follow:

The increases follow:
Passenger service: Engineers aud
motormen, fremen. helpers. eighty
cents per day.
Freight service: Engineers. 1re~
men, helpers. s1.O4 per day.
Yard service: Engineers. firemen.
helpers. eighteen cents per hour.
Passenger service: Conductors.
ticket collectors. baggaSemen. dag
men and brakemen. $40 per month";
Suburban passenger employees $40
per month.
Freight service: Conductors, fnK-
men and brakemen. s1.04 per day.
Superceding rates established by
the administration, the board dxed
the following:
Yard service: Foremen. 1886 per
day; helpers. ss.4s; switch tenders,
s5.04.
Hostler service: Outside. 3szx:
inside hostlers. $3.50 per day; help
ers. s5.04.
The following increases we're Au-
thorized for shop employees: Super
visory machinists. boilermaker<.
black sheet metal workers. electrical
workers, powermen, cupola tenders
and core makers, including those
with less than four years experiences.
thirteen cents an hour: regular ana
helper apprentices and helpers al
classes thirteen cents an hour; coz
cleaners, five cents an hour telfE<
Traphers. telephone operafor4, &K1u<x
ltowermen, levermen. tower Mu6
train directors block Operators 114
staff men, ten cents an hour Akeft6
at small non-tetegraph stations dyo
cents an hour.
The following increases wers
granted maintenance OF way and
unskilled forces:
Construction forces, their assist
ants, section track and maintenance
foremen and assistants. and me-
chanics in these Departments. fifteen
cents an hour.
Laborers employed in shops and
round houses. ten cents an hour;
mechanic helpers in bridge and
building departments, strike labor
ers. common laborers. hoisring fire.
men. pumper engineers. crossing
watcnmen, or fiagmen. and lamp
lighters and tenders eight and one
half cents an hour.
Train dispatchers are given an m
crease of thirteen cents an hour.
and yard masters and assistants
fifteen cents an hour.
The following are added TO estab-
forces: Store keepers. chief clerks.
foremen and other supervisor
forces, clerks with one or more ra1l-
road express train and engine crew
haulers, assistant station men. train
announcers, gatemen and baggage
ard parcel room employees. thirteen
| cents an hour.
Janitors, elevator and felepbone
operators, watchmen, employees op-
Grating office appliances ana similar
work, ten cents an hour. Freight
handlers or truck handlers. twelve
cents an hour.
All common laborers in and
around stations, storChouses. ware-
houses, eight and half cents an
4 hour. Clerks with less than enc
wears experience. six and a 1alf
I cents an hour. Once n3Dys.
messengers and other employees un-
der eighteen years, i've cents an
I hour.
Stationary engine and boiler room
/ employees were advanced thirteen
cents an hour for engineers. nre-
men and oilers; water tenders ano
! coal passers received the ten Per
cent. increase.
( In the signal department. fofe-
men inspectors. maintainers. signal
men and assistants. thirteen cents
an hour; helpers, ten cents an hour.
Whether the award given VIII
stave off the threats OF general
railroad strike remains 10 be seen.
/ The leaders representing every one
/ of the sixteen big railroad unions
were present when Judge Barton
chairman of the board. handed down
the decision. They left immediately
/ to present the awards to 1000 g.
neral chairmen gathered here 20 pass
on the acceptability.
/ The union presidents refused 70
make any comment. The ap-
proximate terms of the decision had
been known to them yesterday and
/ they believed then. their men would
I stay in line, at least until re-
/ ferendum vote can be taken Nearly
month vii, be needed for the re-
! ferendum.
Two other unions. the }ntefr
national association OF railroad
supervisors of mechanics ARD fhe
I American train dispatcherE azseE<a-
/ tion are made party 10 the 1ee,s.Qzz.
/ More than 400 railroads are speez~
hcally named as parties.
The decision provides that ia case
Of a dispute as 10 the intcFprc.Az.a an
of the decision the question shall Pc
referred to the board for dceizio1-
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