The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-09-29

Why the shopcraft employees would not
accept a Decision which was unjust
and were forced to quit work:
Increases in passenger rates, freight
rates Pullman rates and Pullman sur
charge rates were granted to the rail-
roads by the Interstate Commerce
Com mission and these increases were
put ON the ..aveling public.
On July LIST, 1921, the United States
Railroad Labor, Board decision No. LAT
reduced the railroad employees wages
IL PER CENT. DID THE PUBLIC
GET ANY PART OF THIS REDUC-
TON? NO! NO!
On August 16, 1921, the United
States Railroad Labor Board in deci-
sion 222, reduced the shopcraft en-
ployes further reduction of 10 per
cent. DID THE TRAVELLING PUB
Lie RECEIVE ANY PART OF THIS
REDUCTION? NO! NO!
On July 1st, 1922, the United States
Labor Board in decision No. 1896,
again reduced the shopcraft employees
a FURTHER REDUCTION OF IL
PER CENT. A TOTAL REDUCTION
OF "a PER CENT in their wages
within one year.
ASK YOURSELF THE FOLLOW
ING QUESTIONS:
1. Have the passenger rates been
reduced "a per cent?
2. Have the freight rates been re-
duced "a per cent?
3. Have the HIGH SALARIES OF
RAILROAD OFFICIALS BEEN RE-
DUCED 81 PER CENT?
4. HAS THE PRICE OF RENT
BEEN REDUCED "a PER CENT?
5. HAVE THE TAXES BEEN
REDUCED 81 PER CENT?
6. Has the street car fare been
reduced "a per cent?
T. Has flour been reduced "a per
cent?
9. Has your electric light bill been
reduced 81 per cent?
10. Did you ever read a decision
that the salary of the Labor Board
has been reduced "a per cent? They
ONLY receive 100000 each per
year, $500 per day, or $500 per hour,
and the. railway employee helps pay
this board that cuts the wages of one
class of employees to 28 cents per
hour.
Do you know that during the last
six months of 1921 the total pay roll
slash, including the lay-offs, was run
ming at the annual rate of ONE
THREE HUNDRED MIL
LION DOLLARS per year?
Do you know that eleven railroad
q
President of the United States, a to-
tai of s865,571.06; an average of
S78, 701.97, or $500 per hour for a
four-hour day. Do you know that
twelve other railroad officials and at
torneys draw salaries amounting to
SOTO, 800, an average of $4,000 per
year.
Do you know that forty-eight rail
road officials and attorneys draw to-
tai of S1,586,15O per annum, an aver
age of $50, 044 per year, and do you
know that the grand total of the an
nual salaries of these seventy-one
railroad officials and attorneys is
901.06?
Do YOU know that $4,000 individu-
ais, families and estates own and
control One Hundred and Twenty Bill
lion Dollars, or one-third of he Nation
al wealth?
Page 2e, u. S. R. R. Labor Board
Decision dissenting opinion) reads
1.-THE rates of pay established under
this decision are not based upon the
human needs of the hundreds of thous-
ands of families involved. They are
to provide these families
with the absolute essentials. The
earnings of this large group of rail
road workers will not provide the
father of family with as much food
as is allowed convicts in the Cook
County OIlinois) JAIL"
Can you blame the shop crafts for
refusing to accept decisions that are
so unfair and unjust? The shop craft
employees have accepted decision at
ter decision which were unjust. DID
the railroads do this? No! No!
Eighty-two railroads accepted only de-
cisions that suited them and you do
not read of these railroads as outlaws
in the daily press.
Help the Railroad Workers Main
tain living wage.
SILVER MOVEMENT