Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-08-29
REFUSES LIVING
/ WAGE DEFINITION
, .hor Board Denies Motion Of
Maintenance Men at
Wage Hearing
CHANGE IN LAW PROPOSED
Bv Associated Press

Chicago, Aug; 5.,,aJ .,a Goa 'nn,;ou
Labor Board .ouJs .,: Iohor ,tat;stic;on ~
OK W.. Jett Iau.n, ;.n,,,od,o ta,r JoRnn tho
that the pearu i;n;,,n ,,,o,oU In tbo
principle ol a,,,.anaSca ~ UNIV ou
case OF .ne sno,,inn ;ncree sod mini. q.
poyes Wno nv
mum rn.e' rn,nest ~ T.. r. Cradle.
az ,,,t ' - Tho maintenance organi-
rreslueh.l, A., ~ booring tbcn was nd iourned
aa,IT", au,;, tomorrow morning.
UNI, uWn 'Vbl Groble announced that he was
.,.a.onhinp President Harding and
Slsstor Cnmmins. one Of the authors
ns"h % .hc TRANSPORTATION Act, at WASH
;no,on y, today, asking them TO present
m Coneress an amendment to the net
wbich would make it mandatory on the
isbor board to "cnunciate the prin-
cinle of the living wage.
The board in its ruling on Lauck's
,oouest declared It could not 20 beyond
Tho Transportation Act. which pre-
sc,,bed the establishment OF Just and
r..sonoble" wages.
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hu'nS oi ~ ~ n'"
The boards ruling, as announced by
Chairman Ben W. Hooper, follows:
"On the motion submitted Yesterday
on behalf of the employees by Mr. Lauck
the board announces as follows:
1T Is supcrfiuous for the board to
announce in advance the principle OF
theory upon which 1t Will fix wages in
The pending dispute. 1t may be as
,umed by the parties IN this case that
the board will give full consideration
10 every circumstance set out in the
statute for its guidance, but 1t will
not 20 beyond that.
"The Transportation Act requires the
hoard to establish wages that are Just
and reasonable. 1t is within the prov
nce OF the parties herein to make such
contentious as they may respectively
zee At as to what will constitute just
and reasonable wage. If the wage,
which the maintenance of way Organi-
.stion finds to be the living wage it
should be demonstrated to be n just
and reasonable wage, the board will
adopt It; otherwise it would not.
'The board will neither limit nor
.nlarrc the right of either party to pre-
sent 70 the board this conception of what
constitutes n Just and reasonable wage
rI,bin tho meaning of the laws.''
a. O, Wharton. the only labor mcm-
hsr of the hoard Mt today's hcorinp
submitted motion which was rejected
oy y oTatu We ~ ~ - IL suiu .
Ihe Iisni VI aii "o'Ht.s. iIeluuins
common ianoietS' ~ issins "ase Is
hefeoy anar.aeu n.ne ,nn m iii mHunf VICES h
minimum ~ rus ',,, VI pay sun pe estho-
saea Will WI, a iIsurt h, .uu supsis.eiice a.,
OF tne WORKER anu lis la.hiiy III heaith
and reasonable comfort ,,
botn NE. Nraple ana .nr. Lauck ue,
cared that thls resolution embodied
the expression they were surviving lor
Srom the labor poard:
The labor Doaru, snld MT. Grable,
has refused to recognize the principle
OF living wage. For that reason we
must OF necessity change great por-
tion OF our argument.
A living wage, according TO union
leaders, IS nothing less than forty-eight
cents an hour, the minimum OF the wage
scale which the maintenance men have
asked the board to establish.
len roads whose trackmen have been
On strike since the Shopmen threw
down their tools July i, loinen IN
protest against permitting the strlK'
erS to have representation in the case
Labor Board.
Ss,tIo Cb,c,oo g. au,, S,r,Lo
nv ,,> ~ Su,
Inc ssr'he OF tne Cn'caso ana Alton
t0d, ua,naien "uS seltied NJ conferences
W. Saa az no3mhouse, ~, ana elater,
.no. a. l. Illus, vice presldeh' OF tne
WunIs Company, PROMISED ah tne ttai'lnen he
,.Hra mGI.u S''e 'nei' everything oue tne
''Troau. Thu s .o1o , a.
,,,eo so tvau .onn,o oouaS pEs"n ~ unra'Si its
TSo T%t ers4 sa"s.eS ,ro;,, Al me western INES
house Nv. in siutn i~tn ~ % ma'Ee iftin %oGu
mnrnir" for st N"Ir nni. ''I ho.n,n ."rnr nio tmo
nss,smgsrl mr,an.s i'' '''' LOUIS p"'r'hs TWO
1, trains VIII be run only by day for
Tue present. ms, Mr. TITUS said, was
~ lhe request or the men at the final
peace conference last midnight. lt was
also agreed to curtail night railroad
!ard service Mt hoodhouse so as to re-
ouce night work for the men as much
~ possible, temporarily, With this ar
,nshsement and the further advice from
or: lltus that the men should use
saelr own Judgment and not attempt tc