The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1922-10-28
INCREASE FOR
MAINTENANCE men
Labor Board Has Granted In
crease of &c an Hour to
R. R. Employees.

Chicago. Il-Sixteen railroads have
completed agreements with new organ
izations of their shopmen by which in
effect the men waive the right to strike
and the companies pledged themselves
not to litigate both parties agreeing
to abide by the decisions OF the rail
road 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,
aggregates 55,9l6.
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 shop crafts. which di-
rected the nationwide shopmens strike
which started July l. are without rec
ognition or representation so far as
the sixteen railroads are concerned.
The Pennsylvania Railroad. the Iarg-
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 nego-
tiations before the strike.
The roads which signed the agree
ment are: Southern Pacific (Pacific
SYSTEM: Missouri. Kansas & Texas;
Southern Pacific, Texas and Louisiana
lines; Nashville. Chattanooga & St.
Louis; Central of Georgia.; New York.
New Haven & Hartford: Chicago. Bur-
lington & Quincy; Colorado & South
ern; Great Northern; Lehigh Valley;
International & Great Northern: Union
Pacific System; Illinois Central; Flor
ida East Coast; Trinity & Brazos Val
ley; and San Antonio. Uvalde & Gulf
The United States railroad labor
board Tuesday granted increased pay
of &c an hour to over 100000 mainte-
nance of way employees. Four of nine
groups of the United Brotherhood of
Maintenance of Way Employees and
railroad shop workers were affected
by the raise The decision raised mini
mum rates of pay for the classes af-
fected from the present 23c and 35c
to CSC and SIC.
Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the
labor board in a statement following
the decision said that the board based
it's findings on general upward trend
in wages since the boards decision Of
last July reducing wages for this and
other groups Of workmen.
Tuesdays decision marked victory
for the public group OF the board,
which proposed the &c increase. The
proposal being rejected at first by the
three members of the railroad group,
who favored no change, and the three
members of the labor group, who favor
ed a much larger increase.
Track laborers and all common Ia
borers constitute the largest single
class benefited by the wage increase.
The men in this class number approx
imately 10000. The ranges of aver
age pay and the number Of men in each
of the other glasses follow:
Seventeen cents to 23c an hour, 49,
OO9 men, applying mostly to employees
of Southern roads; 23c to 34c an hour,
1O9,864 men; 34c to Csc an hour, 35,975
men; CSC to 36c, 112.069 men; 96c to
SIC. S72 men: CSC to 55c and above.
1859 men While these figures are
averages supplied by IS per cent Of
the railroads. they are generally &C
cepted as typical of all roads.