Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-20

| Grating Office appliances and similar
work. 10 cents an hour.
| Freight handlers or truckers, IL
| cents an hour.
stations, storehouses and warehouses,
not otherwise provided for, n cents
an hour.
! Clerks of less than one years ex-
perience, 61s cents an hour.
Office boys, messengers and other
employees under eighteen years of
| age. 5 cents an hour.
| Stationary engine and boiler room
| employees were advanced 13 cents an
hour for engineers. firemen and oilers.
while water tenders and coal passerS
receive ten-cent increase.
Signal Department Raises.
In the signal department, foremen.
| inspectors, maintainers, signal men
and their assistants, 10 cents an hour:
helpers. 10 cents an hour.
The decision provides that employees
in the departments named who are
properly before the board and not
otherwise provided for shall receive
an increase equal to that established
for the nearest respective classes.
THE intent of this article" the deci-
sion says. sis to extend this decision
to a miscellaneous class of super
possible of specific classifications, and
at the same time insure to them the
same consideration and rate increase
as provided for analogous service"
Harbor Service Rates.
The following new rates are estab-
lished for employees operating rail-
road car floats. lighters, ferries and
tugboatS in harbor service.
New York harbor:
Ferryboats - Masters and pilots,
1920 per month; first officers. $3.50.
Tugboats and steam ighters-Masters
and pilots. $220; pilots in South AM
boy, Perth Amboy and Port Reading
coal-towing lines, 5000; mates. $3.50.
Philadelphia, Camden and Whining
ton district crates based on eight hour
day.:
Ferryboats - Masters and pilots,
$4,000; extra pilots.-s150.22.
Tugboats - Masters, $150.96; mates,
Sill.
New Orleans. Anchorage, Baton
Rouge, Vicksburg. Delta Point, Avon
dale. Algiers. Harrahan and Colds
borough districts: Southern Pacific,
Louisiana, Mississippi. Gulf Coast
lines and Texas and Pacific boats
CARRYING one master, $3.50; two mas
tiers, 1920; mates, $140; pilots. $155.
| Newport News, Hampton roads and
| Norfolk districts: New York. Phila-
delphia and Norfolk railroad, day
freight service, tug captains. $3.50;
! barge captains. $21O; Chesapeake and
! Ohio tug mates, $3.50; steamer master
and pilots, $215; mates. $3.50.
| Norfolk Southern tugs. master
day.. $3.50; captain (nighD. $50.
Southern railroad, Atlantic Coast
Line ferry and tug captains, $3.50 to
$50; mates, $145 to $3.50; Atlantic
Coast Lines. passenger barge, mas
tiers, $122.32.
Port of Baltimore: Baltimore and
Ohio railroad tugs. master, 1901
mates, $147.
| Decision Not Compulsory.
The Railway Labor Board. which
handed down today's decision, was
created by the Esch- Cummins trans
portation act. under which the rail-
roads were returned to private man
agement on March / of this year.
Neither the roads nor the men
! however, are bound by the law to &C.
cept the decisions of the board
The board was appointed by Presi.
dent Wilson, with Judge R. NJ. Barton
some delay in making the appoint
ments, after the transportation bill
| went into effect. on April l dis.
satisfaction of the men with the delay
was manifested in Chicago, when the
Chicago Yardmen' Association brand.
ed by the old established unions as ar
! OUTLAW, called a strike which rapid
ly spread to nearly every section OF
the country. The President was urg-
ed to speed up selection of the board
in an effort to halt the strike. The
! board appointed April 10. met in
Washington and later transferred its
hearings to Chicago.
Men Denied a Hearing.>
The striking railroad men endeav-
ored to present their grievances here,
but we're denied a hearing. the board
ruling that the men should return to
! their recognized brotherhoodS, and re-
| fusing to treat with any other unions.
| Members of the board. in addition