Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-06-01

buying power of the idle vorkmen pro-
duced further depression.
Has Depressed Business.
Whatever may be said to be she
origin or contributing causes, there has
been marked, and to, some extent,
distressing and disastrous depression
in business and industry, affecting thu
entire country and some lines of pro-
duction most seriously" the board
says. As q result heavy financial
losses have been suffered and many
hundreds of thousands thrown out Of
employment and deprived Of III wages,
end this loss of purchasing power ~
them has accelerated the general do
pEessiaa- ahF ssdncine the- denAnd fes
the product they would otherwise nxve
purchased. While 1t has been argued
that the fall in prices has not reached
to any large extent the consumer. il
has without question most disastrously
reached and affected the producers,
especially some lines Of manufacture
and the agricultural classes.
Reductions per hour for the various
classes of employees under the decision
are as follows:
Clerical and Station.
Storekeepers, chief clerks and cler-
ical supervisory forces, 8 cents; clerks
two or more years experience). 6
cents: clerks (more than one and less
than two years experience), 13 cents;
clerks tless than one year). 63a cents:
train callers, announcers and gatemen,
10 cents: janitors telephone operators
and waybill clerks, 10 cents; Office
boys and others under Is, cents: sta
ton and warehouse freight handlers, 6
cents tsealers and food inspectors /
cent above freight handlers and also
srevadores , cents above freight han
dlersl: common laborers around sta.
tions and warehouses, S15 ,centa
Maintenance Of Way.
Construction foremen, 10 cents; as
sistant foremen. hosting engineers
ard bridge inspectors, 10 cents; Sec
ton foremen, 10 cents: building me-
chanics. 10 cents; building mechanics
helpers. 71ls cents; track laborers, 8h
cents; laborers around shops, 10 cents.
Shop Employees.
Supervisory forces, 8 cents; machin-
lists. boilermakers, etc. (all crafts. 8
cents: apprentices and helpers, cents;
car cleaners. 6h cents.
Telepraphers.
Telegraphers, telephoners. towermen
and agents texcept non-telegraphl. 8
cents: agents (non-telegraph), cents.
Engine Service.
Passenger service, engineers and mo-
tormen. firemen, helpers. 6 cents:
freight service, engineers, firemen and
helpers. s cents: yard service. engi-
neers, firemen and helpers, cents:
lostler service, hostlers and helpers, 8
cents.
Train Service.
Passenger service (including suburb
In servicel. conductors, ticket collect
,rs. baggagemen. flagmen and brake
nen. 8 cents: yard service. foremen,
helpers and switch tenders, s cents.
Stationary Easiae.
Engineers. firemen and oilers. s
'ents: water tenders and coal passers,
cents.
Signal Department.
Signal foremen,s inspectors. leading
gang foremen, signamen
md signal maintainers, s cents: help
RS. cents.
ft0ateno equipment.
New schedule Of wages per month:
Ferries. captains, 500: engineers,
100: firemen and oilers, $40; dock
lands. S125: porte~s, 800: tug and
team lighters, captains, 500; mates
nd first deck hands, $3.50; second
eek hands. fleet men and float watch
nen, $lo5: engineers. $50: fire,nen
md oilers, $140: bridgemen, $126:
iEhters and harxes. captains. $1Alto
lao; engineers, $14O to $l60: mates.
100. i
uaioas Affected.
The 81 unions affected BY the deei.
ion are:
American Association of Railroad
Z r'cket Agents, American Federation
I Railroad Workers. American Train
association. Brotherhood
t Locomotive Engineers. Brotherhood
1 Locomotive Firemen and Engine
nen. Brotherhood Of Railroad Signal
aen of America, Brotherhood Of Rail-
Dad Station Employees, Brotherhood
( Railroad Trainnen. brotherhood OF
Hallway and Steamship Clerks. Freight
Iandlers, Express and Station En-
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