New-York tribune., 1922-10-15

or wages IN other lines Oh 5nuuHtFy
since March, particularly. the wages
| pronounced change In the cost Of liv.
ing. A majority Of the members OF tha
board were Of the opinion that the de-
cision rendered last spring, decreas.
Ing the wages Of this class Of labor
was Just and reaHonable, and the pres.
ent decision is not therefore, revi.
sion Of that decision. The reasons
upon which this finding 10 based will
be act forth fully In the text Of the
decision when issued
A. o.. Wharton, Of the labor group
declined to, vote on the proposition, Il
The classes Of employees who will
receive the increased wages are the
following:
Section, track and maintenance fore
men and assistant section, track and
maintenance forernen; track laborers
and all common laborers In the main
tenance Of way department and in and
around shops and roundhouses; draw
bridge tenders and assistants, bile
drivers, ditching and hosting fire.1len,
pumper engineers and pumpars, cross
ing watchmen or hagmen and lamp
lighters and tendsrs; engine watehmer,
and wipers, fire builders, ash pit men,
fue borers, coal passers and miscal.
laneous classes Of foremen and other
employees.
Classes Not Affected
Tho classes not affected by the deci-
sion include tho mechanics and helpers
in the, bridge and building and main
tenance OF way department. bridge.
building, painter, construction, mason
and concrete, water supply and plum
Der foremen and assistant foremen.
Track laborers and all common
laborers constitute the largest single
class. While most Of them now are
receiving between 81 and SO cents an
hour, according to figures compiled by
the railroads, the new scale carries a
top figure of 81 cents. The men in
TINS class number approximately 49,
Sixteen railroads have completed
agreements with new organizations Of
their shopmen by which in effect the
men waive the right to strike and the
companies pledge themselves not to
lltigate, both parties agreeing to abide
by the decisions of the Railroad Labor
board it became known to-day. Notice
OF the completion of the agreements
has been filed with the Railroad Labor
Board
The mileage represented by the six
teen roads, which include such large
systems as the New York, New Haven
& Hartford, Lehigh Valley, Central Of
Georgia, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
Southern Pacific and Union Pacific, ag
gregates 55.018.
Other Roads Negotiate
In addition to these roads. numerous
others are negotiating agreements with
associations Of their own employees.
With the organization Of company
unions ON the sixteen roads, the Fed
Grated Railway Shopcrafts, whose Of
fetal name is the Railway Employees
Department of the American Federation
Of Labor, which directed the recent
nationwide shopnien's strike, are with
out recognition or representation so
Tar as the sixteen roads are concerned.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, the larg-
est OF all the roads which have made
agreements with new organizations of
employees, is not included in the list.
that system having begun such negotia-
tions before the strike. The Penn
ssylvania refused both to recognize the
federated urions or to abide by the
wage decision of the Labor Board, and
still Is in litigation with the board.
There are 20i Glass / railroads Of q
total mileage Of 256,000, of which the
federated shop crafts have announced
approximately 80 railroad companies
Gncluding several bridge and terminal
and switching companies), with mile
age of $4,000, have settled the shop
crafts strike on the basis Of the War
field -Willard-Jewell agreement ratified
by the shopcrafts month ago, by
which number of the larger Eastern
and Western roads took back their
s strikiug employees Excluding the roads
which have made agreements with
the federated shopcrafts, the sixteen
which have settled with their own men
and the Pennsylvania System, there
remains mileage of approximately
100000, for which the roads are UNDER
stood to be negotiating with their em-
ployees.