New-York tribune., 1921-06-28
Order Reducing Wages
10 Per Cent Is Extended
to Make 1t Applicable
to Every Road i'm Land
Completes Saving
OF $4OO,OOO,O
Labor Board Action Will
Affect Marine Workers
and Others i'm New York
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

CHICAGO, June 27.--The United
States Railroad Labor Board to-day
extended it's wage reduction order, eff
foctive July 1, to practically every
large railroad in the country.
No change from the average IL per
cent reduction granted 1O4 carriers on
June l was made by to-day's decision.
The order covered 210 more roads.
1t involves virtually all classes Of
employees ON practically every railroad
known as Glass / carrier which was
rot included in the boards original re-
duction order. The Glass 1 group in
cludes every big road in the coan4ry.
The only change in the rates of re-
duction made by to-days decision was
In the case of some marine workers.
The new decision makes a reality of
the estimated $40O,O00,00O annual saw
ings expected when the boards 12 per
cent cut is applied to all employees on
Class / carriers.
When the first reduction order was
issued 1T was estimated that, if ap-
Piled to all employees on all Glass |
roads, it would lop approximately $780,
ooo,Oo0 from the country's railroad
labor bill
Petitions Amended
About one-half of the roads includ-
ed IN the order are parties to the orig
inal decision, the duplication resulting
from the fact that many roads did not
include all classes of employees in
their first petitions for wage cut.
Rates of reduction for several minor
classes of employees were added to the
order to-day. Chefs and other restau-
rant workers, dining car employees,
laundry workers and porters were
named in added sections of the deci-
sion. Reductions of 60 per cent of the
Increases granted such employees since
February 20, 1920 (the roads were re-
turned to private control on March /,
1920, were directed for those en-
ployees.
Added sections covering marine work
ers set the monthly rates of pay for
railroad marine employees in New
York, Philadelphia, Hampton Roads,
New Orleans, Natchez, Miss; Cairo,
H.; ST. Louis, Duluth, Mimi, and on
the Tennessee River. The monthly
rates for New York are: Captains,
5000; pilots, $3.50; engineers, $3.50; as
SASIalC engineers, 9loO; Ilremen, Sl4U;
deckhands, $125; stewards, $125.
While no definite returns have been
announced from the referendum being
taken by all the railway unions on ac-
ceptance or rejection of the IL per cent
cut, it was expected that conferences
here on July 1 would agree to accept
the boards decision without any inter
ruption of traffic
Agreements to Stand
National working agreements bind.
ing railways and their employees prob
ably will not terminate Friday, as di-
rected by the United States Railroad
Labor Board in it's decision of April
Ia, it became known to-day. Indica-
tions are that they will continue in
force for at least another month and
then possibly for an indefinite period.
This probability developed when it
became definitely known that many of
the roads will be unable to reach
agreements with employees by July |
on rules to be substituted for the ma
tional code and that the Labor Board
has itself lacked time to draft a set
of rules to which it had intended to
give effect on lines that found agree
ment with rail unions impossible.
Some of the railroads. majority of
them, in fact-either have failed in the
effort to carry out the boards in
structions to "get together" with en-
ployees on new working agreements or
have not yet completed the task. A
few of the roads, according to reports,
have made no attempt to meet en-
ployees' representatives on this matter.