Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-07-20
$500, 100000 is RAILWAY WAGE AWARD
NEARLY TWO MILLION
RAILWAY WORKERS TO
BENEFIT BY INCREASES

tnlS accession Ine continuance IN Iull
force and effect Of the rules and
working conditions and agreements IN
force under authority Of the United
States railroad administration. said
the award The intent Of the board
is that the increase be added TO the
present wages, unless otherwise stat
ed
Increases are:
For passenger service engineers,
motormen and tiremen and helpers,
eighty cents day.
Yard service engineers, firemen
and helpers, eighteen cents an hour.
Passenger conductors, ticket collec-
tors. baggagemen, flagmen and brake
men. $50 month
Suburban passenger employees, $50
a month.
Freight conductors. flagmen and
hrakemen. s104 a day
Superseding the old wages, the
board fixed the yard schedule Of fore
man az S6.95 day; helpers. seas,
switch tenders. S5.04; hostlers, out
side. S6.2l; inside hostlers. $500
helpers. S5.04.
The cupola tenders. coremakers, IN
cluding those of less than four years
experience. all thirteen cents an hour
increase: regular and helper ap-
prentlces. all classes. 3 cents an hour,
car cleaners. five cents an hour; AND
telephone operators, agents. tower
lever staff men, town and train d.
rectors. block operators. ten hour
agent at non-telegraph stations. five
cents an hour; construction foremen
assistants, section and track main
tenance foremen assistants and me-
chanics, Is cents an hour; shop and
roundhouse laborers. 10 cents ar
hour; mechanics helpers. bridge build
ing and track common laborers,
bridge tenders. hosting firemen.
bumpers, crossing flagmen, and lamp
lighters. eight and half cents AZ
hour; dispatchers. yardmasters. a.
sistants, fifteen cents mn hCI;
freight truckers. IL cents ar hour;
laborers not otherwise specified eight
and a half cents an hour; clerks of
year experience. thirteen less six and
half cents; storekeepers. callers.
baggage men. thirteen cents an hour;
employees under Is years, five cents
an hour: signal department, thirteen
cents: helpers ten cents.
New schedule for railroad car floats
lighters, ferries. tugboats. harbor ser
vice for gulf coast lines boats, one
master. $3.50; two masters, S220.
mates. Sl40; pilots. sl55.
Increases are also given ship ma
chinists, boilermakers. hlacksm;ths
sheet metal workers. electrical work
ers. power men. moulders and cupoll
tenders.
Whether the award will prevent the
threatened general railroad strike re
mains TO be seen. The union leaders
left Immediately 10 present the award
to the thousand general chairmen
gathered to pass on It. and refused to
make comment on IL before the meet
ing.
known to them yesterday. The be
lieved the men will stay in line until
o referendum vote will be taken.
which requires nearly month
The new railroad union which call
ed q series Of strikes after breakin-
away from the recognized unions viii
submit the boards decision 10 g refer
endum vote, John Grunau. president
OF the Chicago Yardmen's Association
aid. The board failed 70 mention
the unrecogni-ed unions demand for
restoration Of seniority rights lost
during the strike. u did not men
tion insurgent unions, although eigh.
teen unions were specifically named.
An eighteen per cent increase n
freight rates viii be necessary to meet
III twenty-one per cent award granted
the railroad employees, 4. I. White.
representative Of the roads III the
hearing before the board announced
He said after n conference with the
Western Managers Association, thst
the railroads will accept the award
and apply IL Immediately.
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