The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-27
LABOR BOARDS ORDER
HITS PRACTICALLY ALL
WORKERS ON 21OR0ADS
Men Expected to Accept
Award Little Fear
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OF Strike.
Chicago June 17-The United
States railroad labor board todny
extended its wage. reduction UedeA
effective July I, to practically tS-
cry large railroad In the country.
No change from the average II pr
cent reduction granted 1O4 carr1etB
ON June l WAS made BY today's de-
cision. Tho boards order today
covered 80 roads.
All Big Lines Included.
Today's reduction order involved
practically all classes OF employees
ON virtually every railroad known
AZ class carrier, which was not
included in the boards original re-
duction order. The class ! group
includes every big road In the
country.
The only change in the rates Of
reduction made by today's decision
vas in the case of some marine
workers.
About one-half Of the roads IN.
cluded in today's decision were
parties to the original decision, the
duplication resulting from the fact
that many roadsd i'd not include all
classes Of employees in their first pc
titionsf or q wage cut All classes
Of employees have now been named
in the submission Of some OF tne
roads. The wage cut, however, ap-
plies only to those employees OF .
given road which were named in
that roads submission.
Dining Car Men Cut 90 Per Cent
Rates of reduction for several
minor classes Of employees were
added to the order today. which
was issued as an addendum to de-
cision No. LAT, the original wage
reduction order. Chefs and. other
Irestaurant workers, dining car em-
jployes, laundry workers and por-
tiers were named In added sections
Of the decision. Reduction Of 50
per cent of the increases granted
such employees since Feb. 20, 1920
(the roads were returned to private
control by tho railroad administra-
ton on March l, 1920) were directed
for these employees.
Added sections covering marine
workers set the monthly rates OF
lpay for railroad marine workers In
New York, Philadelphia, Hampton
Roads, New Orleans, Natchez,
Miss. St Louis. Cairo. Ill, Duluth
and on the Tennessee river.
Immediately following the an
nouncement Of the boards wage cut
on June 1, roads from every section
Of the country poured in their appli-
cations to the labor board for auth
ority to make similar reductions. A
hearing set for June 8, included Z
total of 164 roads and In the next
two weeks 81 more submissions
were made and included in q hear
ling for June 20. A few roads which
1had not included all classes of en-
ployes in their first petitions for re.
ductions came in with the. remain
! ing classes in the last hearing.s
Carriers Ask General Cut
Many of the roads which askAd
B reductions for only q part of thell
employees at the original hear3Al
in May, came back with applfcA
tions to cover all employees in thest
two later hearings. Virtually ever
: railroad in the country affected b!
a the labor boards 100000. 900 wag'
q award of July, 1920. was includes
in one or more Of the three hear
ings.
!, Following the IL per cent reduc
+ ton, which was generally unsatis
5 factory to the roads, the carrier
d returned to the board with adde,
: insistence that the 1920 award b
q wiped out. The board. however
was not inclined to change it
: scale of reductions determined 4
Q the June decision and maeea
o added to that decision employees ID
: volved in the subsequent hearing
70 At the two June hearings th
roads, for the most part. contente
l. themselves with reiterating th
10 evidence presented in May. Thei
" arguments consisted chiefly Of COZ
of living statistics and compariso
Ie Of railroad wages Of those outsid
II industries.
b. Employees Fight Reductions.
The employees took up other IA
: tors laid down by the transports
| ton act to be considered in the d,
| termination Of just and reasonabl
| lwages. Hazards Of employmen
/ the living wage and similar lins
4 of evidence were introduced In {
| effort to prevent any cut in wage
4, While no definite returns hay
\ been announced from the referl
dunn being taken by all the railw,
unions on acceptance or rejection
| the IL per cent cut, It was expec
ed that conferences here on July
i would agree to accept the board
decision without any interfuptia
OF trafiic.
.I GAMES POSTPONED.
Il bloomington, Ill, June H.-Ro
|. Island Bloomington game postpo