Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-20
$500, 100000 PAY
BOOST GRANTED
TO RAILWORKERS
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and structures were given hourly in
Foremen and assistant foremen were
awarded a lucent increase.
Mechanics. except those affected by the
agreement with the union, 15-cent in
crease.
Mechanics helpers, laborers. draw
bridge tenders, pumper engineers. cross
ing watchmen and fagmen were given
81 cent raises.
Laborers in round house sand shops
such as wipers, fue borers, etc, obtained
a 10 cent increase.
Shop employees including supervisors
employees, machinists, boilermakers and
all classes of skilled labor and their
helper0 and apprentices were awarded
Is cent increases.
Car cleaners were given 8 cents.
All telegraphers and telephone men,
except as otherwise provided for; agent
teiegraphers and tower men; tower and
train directors; block operators and
stan men were advanced 10 cents per
hour.
Agents at telegraph stations were
raised cents per hour.
Stationary engineers, flremen and their
water tenders and coal passers, 10 cents.
In the signal department an advance
or Is cents per hour was awarded fore
men, their helpers and inspectors, gang
foremen and maintainers. signal men
and assistants.
Helpers were given 10 cents.
Train dispatchers were given an in
crease of 13 cents per hour.
Yard masters and their assistants were
awarded lucent advances.
In addition the board superseded for
mer wages for masters, mates and pilots
on railroad operated steamship lines,
setting the wages on a monthly basis
with differentials according to the har-
Dor
In the New York harbor, masters, pilots
or captains Of ferry boats were given
500 per month; mates and first officers
$50 per month.
Tug boat captains were awarded $500
per month; pilots on coal towing lines,
$500 per month, and mates $50 per
month
In the Philadelphia, Camden and Wilm-
ington districts ferry boat masters were
given S1903O: extra pilots, S150-22. tug
boat captains, S150.96: mates, Sill.
FIGURING LEFT TO
INDIVIDUAL ROADS.
In the New Orleans district wages were
set at $3.50 for captains of most steam
ers. listed by names.
Master pilots were awarded 1920
Exceptions were the lei Yivo' and
Gel ListO" of the Southern Pacific, on
which masters were awarded S155 per
mouth.
For the same lines restless the wage
was fixed at $50.
II ~ n
and Norfolk district, wages were fixed
according to the boat CT tug.
For tug captains the wage was set at
from S160 to $50 per month.
Steamship captains ranged from $500
to $3.50 per month.
With the increas es retroactive TO May
/, 1920, Judge Barton said some time viii
he necessary to determine the amount
due each worker.
The computation of these amounts with
be left to the clerical departments Of
each road.
The board specifically avoided deter
mining compensation for officials of the
various roads.
The decision Of the board was not
unanimous.
The award declared the increases rep
resented Judgment of the majority OF
the board"
NJ announcement WIS Udut VI the Au-
dividual stand of members.
In reaching its decision the board said
it took into consideration the following:
Scale of wages for similar work IN
other industries: relation of wages to
the cost of living. hazards OF employ
ment; training and skill required; the
degree of responsibility; the character
and regularity of the employment and
inequalities of increases il, wages or Of
treatment; the report OF previous wages,
orders or adjustments.
The award said it found with few ex-
ceptions railroad employment is more
regular and the character OF the work
IS more desirable than Ike occupations
outside
1T is clear the cost of living in the
United States has increased approx
mately 100 per cent since 1914 the re-
port said.
In many instances the increase to en-
ployes herein fixed, together with prior
increases, exceed this figure
Anticipating the award would not
meet universal favor and attempting to
allay dissatisfaction. the board de-
cIared:
Those persons who consider the rates
determined on herein too high should
reflect on the abnormal conditions re
sulting from the high cost Of living and
the high rates now being paid in other
industries
ALSO HAS WORD
FOR EMPLOYEES.
The employees who may believe these
rates too low should consider the in
creased burden these rates will place on
their fellow countrymen, many Of whom
are less favorably situated than them
selves"
An effort was made, the statement said.
to arrive at an increase sufficient to
provide ga decent living and secure for
the children of the wage earners open
ing for education" without showing
preference" for any class because "the
great mass of the people must ultimate
" pay a great part Of an increased cost
of operation entailed by the Increase in
wages"
If railroad labor will render the best
service of which it is capable" the award
declares, "the American people will re
ceive benefits far outweighing the cost
Of the increases decided upon"
The board asks in making the award
that 1t serve as an inspiration to work
ers to attempt better service to the pub
lie and a spirit Of cooperation.
PENDING FOR
MORE THAN YEAR.
Demands OF railroad employees for in
creased wages have been pending since
July 5, 1919. after the government took
over the railroads.
Shop craft workes asked for a general
increase then, and were followed by de
mands from other branches.
The requests TO Walker D. Hines,
former director general Of the railroad