The Connecticut labor news., 1921-12-02
Overtime Called h. creased Wage When Workers Are Con- cerned but Big Gifts to Officials Are Claim ed Strictly Regular.

Washington, Dec. 2.-At the contm- nation before tle Senate Committee on
 Interstate Commerce of the hearing on suggested amendments to the 1ranSpor- T. tation act, Frank J. Warne adder to the testimony he gave as representative of railroad employees.
 He asserted that expenditures by the railroads for way and structures aver aqed S65.7OO,OOO monthly under Govern ment control; $75, 100000 under private operation, with no guarantee, and nearly So5 100000 under Government guarantee and private operation. He revleWed tne exnerience of the Big Four railroad brotherhoods with wage statistics pre- sented by the railroads before Federal boards of arbitration Ill wage controVer- sies since 1910, and contended that the emploves had proved that these statistics were incorrect. He maintained that this was also true of wage statistics presented before the Interstate Commerce Com mittee at the present hearing.
 CITES OFFICERS SALARIES
 One of these statistical fallacies," MT. Warne held, was the inclusion ot salar- ies paid to general and division officers In 1920 these numbered approximately 22,OOO, and their total annual salarles ex- ceeded 100000, not including officials temporarily identified with and paid by the Railroad Administration during Fed eral control Mir Warne asserted that these salaries had increased since 1910 by more than $3o,OO0,O0O, while the total number of general and division officers had increased in these five years less than 5000. The average increase in the an- nual salary of each of these officers m this time was $8,OOO, he said
 Tt is clear" the witness said, that in the present form which the railway wage problem has assumed the salaries of these officials are properly not part ot that problem and, III fairness, the amount ot their compensation and its increases should be eliminated from statistics pu- porting to show distinct wage increases None of the awards of the Railroad Labor Board affect the salaries of these officers they are not subject to the jurlS diction of the board they can be, and have been increased at any time by a mere dictum of the Board of Directors they can even be greatly increased by having large sums voted to them as special gifts. In no economic sense are these high salaries a part of the rail- way wage labor problem"
 MT. Warne quoted from a report of the Interstate Commerce Commission which he said, showed that Vice Presi- dent J. E. German of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific, had received secretly an additional $18,75O, making his total annual salary $43,750, whereas the roads payroll showed only $25,OO0; that Chief Engineer C. A. Morse received secret bonus of $3,OOO the first of each year in addition to his annual salary of $l5,0O0; that General Solicitor R. A. Jackson re- ceived $1OO,OO0 in cash on his retirement that Vice President C. H. Warren re- ceived $50,0OO in cash and $255,O0O in par value stock; that Vice President Robert Mather received $25O00 in cash that C. T. Boggs, a director who was also Secretary to the Board of Directors, received $15,OOO in cash when he retired
 When the capital stock of the railroad was increased, MT. Warne asserted, shares to the par value of $88O, 500 were placed by resolution of the Executive l Committee in the name of the President l to be disposed of at par flor the benefit | of such officers of the company as the | President shall elect and determine" which contributions were in addition to | the annual salaries of the officials, the l salaries ranging from $75,OOO to $32, ,OOO ] OVERTIME PAY CALLED WAGE
 INCREASE
 Mr. Warne believed that men employed | in the freight service where the speed l basis Is less than twelve and a half l miles an hour do not receive compensa- ton which is relatively sufficient when | with those who work on trains 1 where the speed basis is higher. Wit l nesses for the railroads had included