New Britain herald., 1921-06-27
Today's Decision Nal Reality Of Estimai Four Hundred Mill Annual Savings, Bed ming July 1
While No Definite Retl Are Available It Is Exj ed That Employees
 Accept 12 Per Cent 1

Chicago, June 27.-The U. S. road Labor Board today extend wage reduction order, effective J to nearly every large railroad country. No change from the q IF per cent. reduction granted N riers on June 1, was made by decision. The boards order toda, erned 21O roads
 $4OO, ,OOO, ,O0O Savings. Today's decision will make a of the estimated four hundred 1 dollars annual savings expected the boards F per cent. out, el July l, is applied to all employees, railroads known as class one e The decision drawn up as an add to the wage reduction order of J l adds practically every railroad class one division to the original 1O4 roads authorized to make per cent. reduction.
 When the reduction order was it was estimated that if applied employees on all, class one roads it| lop approximately four hundred dollars from the country's railroa] bill. The new decision will make u possible by ordering reduced wad employees not included in the d case and also by including emplo| roads which were not parties first hearing. , All Roads Made Requests. | Immediately after the arnounl of the boards cut on June 1 from every section of the q poured in their applications to thI board for authority to make sim auctions. A hearing set for JunI cIuded a total of 164 roads and next two weeks 61 more subn were made and included in a hear June 20. A few roads which Il included all classes of employees first petitions for reductions ca with the remaining classes in [ hearing.
 Many of the roads which as1 auctions for only a part of thd pioyes at the original hearing came back with applications td all employees in these two latte fngs.
 Virtually every railroad in thu try affected by the labor boaI hundred million dollar wage av July 1920 was included in one of three hearings.
 Carriers Dissatisfied.
 After the F per cent. re which was generally unsatisfac the roads, the carriers returned board with added insistence tn 1920 wage award be wiped out board, however, was not inclij change its scale of reductio termined in the June l decisi merely added to that decision ei involved in the subsequent heal
 At the two June hearings the for the most part contented the with reiterating the evidence pr in May. Their arguments c chiefly of cost of living statist comparison of railroad wages wit in outside industries. The c, took up other factors laid down transportation act to be consid the determination of just and able wages. Hazards of empl( the living wage and similar II evidence were introduced in aJ to prevent any cut in wages.
 Will Agree to Cut.
 While no definite returns hal announced from the referendum taken by all the railroad unions ceptance or rejection of the 12 D but is is expected that con1 here on July l will agree to act boards decision without any iI ton of traffic.
 Today's reduction order i nearly all classes of employees tually every railroad known as One carrier, now included boards original reduction orde Class One group includes ev( road in the country.
 The only change in the rate duction made by today's decis in the case of some marine woI
 About one-half of the TO, cluded in today's decision we ties to the original decision th( cation resulting from the ia many roads did not include all of employees in their first D
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