Bisbee daily review., 1921-06-01
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 WILL BE SAVED
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE oNEj proxmately Is per cent or from $370 to s3.02 per day.
 i Switchmen and shop crafts were given a nine per cent reduction while train service men were cut approxi- lmately per cent. Car repairers were lcut 10 per cent.
 Common Labor $3.3a
 The board recently reclassified the various employees in connection with railway operations and this, it was pointed out, may have some effect on labor costs.
 The board also, a few weeks age ordered abrogation of the national working agreements, to become effec- tive July l. At the hearing on the petition for abrogation of these agree ments, railroad witnesses estimated savings in labor cost as high as $300,- 000,000 annually. This would be in addition to the saving possible through the wage reduction decision,
  Common labor pay, over which the railroads made their hardest fight, is to be reduced six to eight and one-half cents an hour, cutting freight truckers average monthly wages to $97.10 and track laborers to S77.11. This new schedule still gives section men an average daily wage of s3.3S for an eight hour day, althougl considerable testin.o ony offered by the roads show ed common labor wages as low as $1.5O for 10 hours.
 Shop craft employees and train and engine service men, except those in passenger service, are reduced eight cents an hour. Construction and sec tion foremen are reduced 10 cents an hour.
 Passenger and freight engineers who were given increases of 10 cents and 13 cents an hour by the 1920 award, are to be cut six and eight cents an hour respectively. Passenger and freight conductors, who received increases of 121s cents and 13 cents in 1920 are cut 71z and cents respec- lively.
 Train dispatchers and yardmasters whose monthly earnings average $26O to S270 are cut eight cents an hour.
 The smallest reduction will apply to office boys and other employees under Is years of age. who will receive five cents an hour less.
 Operators Disappointed
 CHICAGO, May 31. - Railway exc cutives tonight expressed disappoint- mcnt,at what they termed the made uuate wage decrees announced by the si ailway labor board.
 !, B. M. Jewell, president of the rail- road department oi the American Federal on of Labor. refused to com ment, but declared that the reduc- tion would be taken up at an execu- tive meeting probably in Chicago soon.
 The reduction is not, in my opin- ion. sufficient to meet the demands of the situation" said H. E. Byram, president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul railroad.
 ~The railroads in good faith asked for and expected that the board would make reduction of wages equivalent to the advance 1t grant ed July 20. 1920 That advance prov ed to run at the rate of almost $S00.- 0OO,000 year when the railways were handling a normal business and averaged about 22 per cent.
 The reduction is just about one half of this sum. It is estimated that t will amount to S400.000.000 d year. or an average of about F per cent. The reduction granted will be 1 helpful, but it, will not be sufficient. Whether it. and other developments will make prs.cticable any reductions O rates will depend upon the effect upon the net earnings cS tue rail- ways It does not seem probable | that the net earnings of the railroads will be incrsased enough to make | practicable any substantial reduc' tions in rates in the near future
 $. M. Felton, president of the Chi eago Great Western, declared that he was disappointed. "The reduc- ton granted to the roads," he said ~is relatively too small as to pre- { elude early return Of any substan. tial reduction Of freight and passen ger rates although discriminations or where it is shown that rates are hindering movement of traffic | changes will be made
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