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r. r. WORKERS
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Tor engineers, firemen and oilers, while
water tenders and coal passers receive
ten cent increase.
In the signal department foremen,
inspectors. msjntaIners, signal men
and tlcir assistants were increased -
cents an hour. helpers 10 cents an hour.
The decision provides that employees
ln the departments named who are prop
erly before the board and not otherwise
provided for shall receive an increase equal
10 that established for the nearest respec-
tive classes
The lntcnt of this article. the decision
savs. Is 10 extend this decision to a
miscellaneous class oi supervisors and
employees, practically impossible of
specific classification, and AZ the same time
insure to them the same consideration
and rate increase rs provided for analo-
gous service.
The following new rates arc established
for employees operating railroad car floats,
lighters, ferries and tug boats IN harbor
service.
New York harbor-Ferryboats-Mas-
tors and pilots $500 per month: first off,
Gers $50; tugboats and steam lighters
masters and pilots S220; pilots in South
Ambov. Perth Amboy and Port Reading
coal towing lines S200; Hates $50.
Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmin. ton
district rates based on s hour day)
Fcrryboats-Niastcrs and pilots slo030;
extra pilots Sl50.22 Tugboats-Masters
$50 o6: mates Sill.
Port Of baltimore Baltimore AID Ohio
Railroad tugs-Masters S20l mates Sl47.
The board 5 decision Is retroactive to
Nav / As the maximum increase granted
any class was Is cents an hour or $50. ~
per month, the biggest back pay check
due when the settlement is made August
will be SllO.16.
Seven things were taken into consi4era-
tion in arriving at the award, the pre-
amhle OF the boards announcement says
They were:
The scale paid for similar kinds of woik
In other Industries; the relation between
wages and the cost of living; the hazards
OF the employment: training and skill
required; degree of responsibility; charac-
ter and regularity OF the employment and
inequalities IN increases and treatment
resulting from previous wage orders.
Those persons who consider the rates
determined on herein too high should
reflect on the abnormal conditions result
inc from the high cost of living and the
high rates now being paid In other indus
try" the board sand. The employe
who may have thought these rates too
low should consider the increased burden
these rates will place on then fellow
cotmtrymen, many of whom are less
favorably situated than themselves.
"The board has endeavored to such
wages as will provide a decent living
and secure for the children of the wage
earners opportunity for education and yet
10 remember that no class of Americans
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that the great mass of the people must
ultimately pay great part OF the In
creased cost of operation entailed by the
increase in wages determined herein"
The decision, Chairman Barton ex-
plained was not unanimous one, some
members dissenting on nearly every sec
ton. The awards gwen were by a me-
ioritv vote on each section with at least
one member of the public group voting
for each award.
Demands of the railroad men whostru
last April and formed new unions are
ignored by the board.
OUTLAWS WILL HAVE VOTE
The new railroad unions which called
the series OF strikes this spring after their
members had broken away from the
recognized brotherhoods, will submit
the board $ decision to referendum
vote Of their membership, John Grunau
president of the Chicago Yardmen's Asso-
cation announced today.
Rejecting the demands of the organized
rail unions for increases totalling approx.
mately one billion dollars the board de.
cided approximately 60 per cent of that
sum would be a just increase to meet
nresent living conditions.