Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-06-30
ORDERS PAY CUT
ON 210 ROADS
Federal Rail Labor Board De-
crees II Per Cent Reduc-
ton on All Big Lines.
SAVING OF s4OO,OOO,OOO
New Wage Schedule Effective July 1
All Class Employees Hit by
New Ruiing-Unions Expected
to Accept IL.

Chicago, June 285The United
States railroad labor board extended
Its wage reduction order. effective
July l. to practically every large rail
read In the country. No change from
the average IL per cent reduction
granted 104 carriers on June was
made by today's decision. The boards
order today covered 21O roads.
The new wage decision of the Uni
ted States railroad labor board will
make reality Of the estimated $780,
OOO,OOO annual savings expected when
the boards IL per cent cut, effective
July l, is applied to all employees on
all railroads known as class ! car
rfers. The decision, drawn up as an
addendum to the wage-reduction order
Of June l, was made public today.
1t adds practically every railroad in
class l division to the original list Of
1O4 roads authorized to make the II
per cent reduction.
When the reduction order was is
to all employees on all class 1 roads.
1t would lop approximately S4OO,OO0.-
600 from the country's railroad labor
bill. The new decision will make this
cut possible, by ordering reduced
wages for employees not included in
the original case and also by including
employees on roads which were not
parties to the first hearing
Flood of Requests Received
Immediately following the announces
ment of the boards wage cut on June
l, roads from every section of the
country poured in their applications
to the labor board for authority to
make similar reductions. A hearing
set for June 6 included total of 1874
roads and in the next two weeks 81
more submissions were made and in
cluded in a hearing for June 20. A
few roads which had not included all
classes of employees in their first pc
tftions for reductions came in with
the remaining classes in the last hear
ing.
Many of the roads which asked re-
auctions for only part of their en-
pIoyees at the original hearing in May
came back with applications to cover
all employees in these two later hear
fngs. Virtually every railroad in the
country affected by the labor boards
$800,00O,O00 wage award of July. 1920,
was included in one or more of the
three hearings.
Following the u per cent reduc-
tion, which was generally unsatisfac-
tory to the roads, the carriers returned
to the board with added insistence
that the 1920 wage award be wiped
out. The board, however. was not in
clined to change it's scale Of reduc-
lions determined in the June 1 deci-
sion and merely added to that decision
employees involved in the subsequent
hearings.
Advance Many Arguments.
At the two June hearings the roads.
for the most part, cOntented them
selves with reiterating the evidence
presented in May. Their arguments
consisted chiefly Of cost-Of-living sta
tistics and comparison Of railroad
wages with those in outside indus
tries. The employees took up other
factors laid down by the transporta-
ton acR to be considered in the deter
mination of just and reasonable wages.
Hazards of employment, the living
wage and similar lines Of evidence
were introduced in an effort to pre-
vent any cut in wages.
While no definite returns have been
announced from the referendum being
acceptance or rejection of the IL per
cent cut, it was expected that confer
ences here on July l would agree to
accept the boards decision without
opu inforruntiop of traffic