New-York tribune., 1920-07-21

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disposed Of the board plans revising
the rules in effect on all roads.
Increases Granted
Tho increases follow.
Passenger Service 49, Engineers and
motormen, firemen, helpers, 80 cents
day, EEr.,,bt observation-disclosures. arom.n
and helpers, $1.04 a day.
Yard Service - Engineers, fremen,
helpers, 1S cents an hour.
Passenger Service-~Conductors tick
ct collectors, baggagc-men, fagmen and
brakemen, $40 a month; suburban serv-
ice passenger employees, $50 month
Freight Service-Conductors, fagmcn
and brakemen, S1.04 a day.
Superseding rates established by the
railroad administration, the board fixed
the following schedules:
Yard Service-Foremen, $500 day;
helpers. $6.4S; switch tenders, $5.04.
Hostler Service-Outside hostlers,
1924 a day; inside hostlers, $3.50 a
day; helpers, $5.04.
For Shop Employees
The following increases were author
lied for shop employees:
ermakers, backsmiths. sheet metal
workers, electrical workers, power
men, moulders, cupola tenders and core
makers, including those with less than
four years experience, all crafts, 13
cents an hour. Regular and helper ap-
prentices and helpers, all classes, 13
cents an hour. Car cleaners, s cents
an hour. Carmen, 13 cents an hour.
Photographers, telephone operators,
fOu Low -,
train directors, block operators and
staffmen, 10 cents an hour. Agents at
small, non-telegraph stations. cents
an hour.
The following increases were granted
maintenance of way and unskilled
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
roundhouses, 10 cents an hour.
Mechanics helpers in bridge and
building departments, track laborers,
common laborers, bridge tenders, hoist
ing firemen, pumper engineers, cross
ing watchmen or hagmen, and lamp
| lighters and tenders, 8M cents an hour.
Train Dispatchers. Raised
Train dispatchers are given an in
crease of 13 cents an hour and yard
masters and assistant yardmasters Is
cents an hour.
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 rail
road experience, train and engine crew
callers, assistant stationmasters, train
announcers, gatemen, and baggage and
parcel room employees, 13 cents an
hour.
Janitors, elevator and telephone
| operators, watchmen, employees oper-
ating office appliances and similar
work, 10 cents an hour.
Freight handlers or truckers, IL
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 years cx-
perience, Ga cents an hour.
Office Boys Benefit
Office boys, messengers and other
employees under eighteen years old,
cents an hour.
Stationary engine and boiler room
| employees we're advanced IL cents an
hour for engineers, fremen and oilers,
while water tenders and coal passers
received 10-cent increase
In the signal nt-foremen,
inspectors, maintainers, signalmen and
their assistants, 13 cents an hour;
helpers, 10 cents an hour.
The following new rates are estab--
lished for employees operating railroad
car floats, lighters, ferries and tug
boats in harbor service:
Masters and pilots, 1920 month; first
officers, $3.50. Tugboats and steam
lighters, masters and pilots, 1920;
pilots in South Amboy, Perth Amboy
and Port Reading coal towing lines,
5000; mates, $3.50.
Philadelphia, Camden and Whining
ton district Crates based on eight-ho
day.: rryboats--Masters and pilots,
$1903O extra pilots, $150.22. Tugboats
Masters, $15096; mates, Sill.
Southern Districts
New Orleans, Anchorage, Baton
Rouge, Vicksburg, Delta Point, Avon
dale, Algiers, Harrahan and Goldsbor-
ough district; Southern Pacific; Louis
lana, Mississippi, Gulf Coast lines and
Texas and Pacific boats carrying one
master, $3.50; two masters, s220; mates
$140; pilots, $155.
Newport News, Hampton Roads and
Norfolk oistrict-New York, Philadel-
phia & Norfolk Railroad, day freight
service, tug captains, $3.50; barge cap
tains, $210. Chesapeake & Ohio tug
mates, $3.50; steamer masters and
pilots, s215; mates, $16O.
Norfolk Southern tugs, master (day),
$3.50; captain (night), $3.50.
Southern Railroad, Atlantic Coast
Line ferry and tug captains, $3.50 to