The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21
Wage Increase s Granted RaiInaen

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 Chicago. July 2o.-Increases granted railway employees by the railway labor board follows:
 Passenger service:
 Engineers and motormen, firemen, helpers, so cents per day.
 Freight service;
 Engineers. firemen, helpers. s1.o4 per day
 Yard service:
 Engineers, firemen, helpers, IS cents per hour.
 Passenger service:
 Conductors, ticket collectors, bag gagemen. flagmen and brakemen, $50, per month. Suburban service passen- ger employees, $50 per month
 Freight service:
 Conductors, flagmen and brakemen, s1.04 per day.
 Superseding rates established by the railroad administration. the board fixed the following schedules
 YardmenS' service;
 Foremen, s6.96 per day; helpers SEAS; switch tenders s5.04.
 Hostler service:
 Outside hostlers, s6.24 per day; in- side hostlers, $5.60 per day; helpers. $5.04.
 SHOP EMPLOYES The following increases were au thorized for shop employees:
 Supervisory forces. machnists, boil ermakers, black1niths, sheet metal workers. electrical workers, power men, holders, cupole tenders and coremakers, including those with less than four years experience. all crafts 13 honr Rpun1ar helper apprentices and helpers, all classes. 13 cents an hour Carmen, l3 cents an hour. Car cleaners, cents an hour.
 Photographers. telephone operators, agents, towermen, levermen. tower and train directors, block operators and staffmen, 10 cent asn hour. Agents at small non-telegraph stations. 5 cents an hour.
 maintenance of way and unskilleG forces: Construction forces, their assistants. section. track and maintenance fore men and assistants and mechanics in these departments Is cents an hour Laborers employed in shops and round houses, 10 cents an hour./ Mechanics helpers in bridge and build ing departments, track laborers, com
  firemen, bumper engineers, crossing watchmen, or flagmen, and lamp light CTS and tenders S1a cents an hour. Train dispatchers are given an in l crease of 13 cents an hour and yard masters and assistant yardmasters, 15 cents hour. The following increases are added to station forces: CLERICAL FORCE Storekeepers chief clerks, foremen and other clerical supervisory forces, clerks with one or more years railroad ex- perence, train and engine crew callers, assistant station masters. train an- nouncers, agents. baggagemen and par eel room employees, IS cents an hour. Janitor, elevator and telephone opera tors watchmen, employees operating of flee appliances and similar work, 10 cents an hour. Freight handlers or truckers, 12 cents an hour All common laborers in and around stations, storehouses and warehouses not otherwise provided for. S1a cents an hour Clerks of less than one year experience, 6la cents hour. Office boys, messengers and other em- ployes under IS years of age, cents an hour. Stationary engine and boiler room em- plOyeS were aQNanced Is cents an hour for engineers. firemen and oilers, while water tenders and coal passers receive 10 cents increase. In the signal department. foremen. in- spectors, maintainers. signalmen and their assistants, 13 cents an hour; help CTS, 10 cents an hour. New rates established for employees operating railroad car floats, lights, fer res and tugboats in harbor service in- clude
 New Orleans. Anchorage. Baton Rouge, ylcksburg. Delta Point. Avondale, Al giers. Harrahan and Goldsborough dis trict: Southern Pacific, Louisiana, Mig sissippi. Gulf Coast Lines and Texas and Pacific boats carrying one master, s2sn; two masters. s22o; mates. $40. pilots, sl55
 Newport News, Hampton Roads ana Norfolk district: New York, Philadel- phia and Norfolk railroad freight serv- ice, tug captains. $250: barge captains. s210; Chesapeake and Ohio tugmates. sl60; steamer master anr pilots, s215; mates, sl60.
 Norfolk Southern tug masters, day. s16o; captain. $50. Southern Railway. Atlantic Coast Line ferry and tug captains, $1S0 to 1eo. mates. sl45 to S160; Atlantic Coast Line passenger barge masters, sl2632 Port of Baltimore: Baltimore and Ohio railroad. tug masters. s2ol; mates, S47.