Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-06-27
WAGE REDUCTIONS
EXTENDED TO ALL
LARGE RAILROADS
(By The Associated Pressl


CHICAGO, H., June 27-The
United States Railroad Labor Board
today extended the wage reduction
order effective July to practically
every large railroad in the country.
No change from the average twelve
per cent reduction granted 104 car
riers on June ! was made in today's
decision. The boards order today in
cluded 210 roads.
Many roads which asked reduc-
tions for only part of their employees
in the original hearing in May came
back with applications to cover all
employees in two later hearings.
Virtually every road in the country
affected by the Railroad Labor
Boards 5000, 100000 wage award
in July 192O( was included in one
or more of the three hearings.
Following the twelve per cent re-
duction which was generally unsat-
isfactory to the railroads, the car
riers returned to the board with adj
ded insistence that the 1920 award
be wiped out. The board, however,
was not inclined to change the scale
reductions of June / and merely ad-
ded to that decision the employees in
volved at subsequent hearings.
At two June hearings the roads for
the most part contented themselves
with reitcrating the evidence pre-
sented in May. Their arguments con-
sisted chiefly cost of living statistics
and comparison of railroad wages
with outside industries.
The employees took up the otaer
factors laid down by the transrorta-
iion act to be considered in deter
miration of just and reasonable
wages. Hazards of the employment.
living wage and similar lines of evil
dence were introduced I'm an effort
70 prevent cut.
While no definite r.turns- h4Te
been announced from the referend-
um of all railway unions on accept
ance or rejection of the twelve per
cent cut, it is expected that confer
ences here July will agree to ac-
cept the boards decision without IN.
terruption Of traffic.
The new wage decision Of the Rail.
road Labor Board which will make
a reality of the estimated S400, ,o0O,-
900 annual savings expected when
the boards twelve per cent cut, eff
fective July /, is applied to all en-
ployes of all railroads known a
Class | carriers.
The decision. drawn up as an adden-
dunn to the wage reduction order OF
June adds practically every railroad
OF the Class division to The origin
al list of 104 roads authorized to
make the twelve per cent reduction.
When the reduction order WIS is
sued. il was estimated that IL 1t was
AZ pied to all employees of all Class
..sa. 4 would lon a-,rONimat"lv
S400. .C00'tc from &c country's
:a.lrO,d l. .or bill.
The new decision will make this
cut possible by ordering reduced the
wages of employees not included in
the original case and including en-
ployes of roads not parties to the
first hearing.
Immediately following the an
nouncement Of the boards wage cut
June ! roads in every section Of the
country poured in their applications
to the labor board for authority to
make similar reductions. The hearing
set for June included a total Of
l64. In the next two sixty-one more
submissions were made and included
in the hearing on June 20. The few
roads which had not included all clas
ses Of employees in their first petit
tions for reductions come in with the
remaining clases at the last hearing.