Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-07-21
MILLIONS ADDED
To RAIL MEN 5
PAY BY RULING
Of LABOR BOARD
About GO Per Cent Of the
Amount Asked For By the
Workers Is Granted By
Award of Federal Bureau
FREIGHT RATE BOOST
BELIEVED NECESSARY
Raj IWayS Must Have Addi-
tionaI Revenues to Offset
This New Drain On Their
Treasures, They Claim,

tsS aossso JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIpxl
Chicago. July 20.--Six hundred
millions dollars was added to the
pay envelope of the nations 2,000.-
600 railroad workers today in the
first award handed down by the
United States railway labor board,
Rejecting the demands of the
organized rail unions for increases
totaling approximately 81 900, ,000.-
900, the board decided approxi-
mately GO per cent of that sum
would be a just increase to meet
present living conditions.
The award adds approximately
q per cent to the present pay
schedules. Railroad officials have
declared that any pay increase
must be followed by a correspond
ing increase In rates and their plan,
" is said, Is to file new tariffs with
the Interstate Commerce commits
sion as soon as they can be pre-
pared.
Whether the award will stave off
the threatened general railroad
strike remains to be seen. The lead
! ers of raoiically all OF the sixteen
| big railroad unifns were present
This morning when Judge r. VI.
Parton, chairman of the board,
handed down the decision. They
left Immediately 10 present the
award to 1000 general chal-men
who had gathered here to pass on
its acceptability. The union presi-
dents refused to make any COM
ment before the meeting. The
terms of the decision had been
known to,them yesterday and they
believed their men would stay in
line. OF least until referendum
vote can be taken, Nearly month
will be needed for the referen-
DUN.
Retroactive to- May i.
The boards decision Is retroae-
tive to May /. AS the maximum
increase granted by any c'ass was
Is cents an hour or $36.72 per
month, the biggest back pay check
due when the settlement Is to be
made on August I, will be $ll01s.
The board provides that the back
pay checks shall be made out sep-
arately So that each man will know
the amount he receives from that
source.
An IS per cent increase In freight
rates will be necessary to meet the
II per cent average wage award
granted railroad employees today
T.. r. Whittier, representative OF the
roads in the hearings before the
railway labor board announced to-
day.
The increases follow:
Passenger Service.
Engineers and motormen, fire.
men, helpers, 80 cents per day.
Conductors, ticket collectors.
bagga gemen, flagmen and brake
men, $50 per month.
Suburban service passenger em-
ployes, $40 per month.
Freig.it service.
Engineers, firemen, helpers,
$1.04 per day.
Conductors, flagmen and brake
men. 1.04 per day.
Superseding rates established by
the railroad administration, the
board fixed the following sched-
ules:
Yard service. n
Engineers, firemen, helpers iS
cents per hour,
Foremen, $500 per day; helpers,
s6.4s: switch tenders. S1.0f.
HOStler Service.
Outside hostlers, 1924 per Day
inside hostlers, $3.50 per day; help
ers, $5.04.
Increases For Shop Men.
The following increases we're au-
thorized for shop employees:
Supervisory forces-Machinists
boilermakers, blacksmiths, sheet
metal workers, electrical workers.
l,oyer men, moulders, cupoia tend"
ers and coremakers,. including
those with less than fout years ex-s
perience, all crafts, 13t cents an
hour. Regular helpers Apprentices
and helpers, all classes, IL cents an
hour. Car cleaners, cents an
hour. Car men, IS cents an hour.
Telegraphers, telephone operat-
ors, agents, towermen, leverme1.
tower and train directors, block
operators and staff men, 10 cents
an hour. Agents at small non-tele-
graph stations, 5 cents an hour.
The following increases were
granted maintenance of way and
unskilled forces:
Construction forces, theit as
sistants, section, track and mainte-
nance foremen and assistants ana
mechanics in these departments,
Is cents an hour.
Laborers. employees in shops and
roundhouses, 10 cents an hour.
Mechanics helpers in bridge and
building departments, track labor
ers, common laborers. bridge tend
ers, hoisting firemen. pumper en-
gineers, crossing watchmen or flag
men and lamp lighters and tenders
lsh cents an nour
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