Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-03-23
TRANSIT WORKERS
TO GET PAY RAISE
Local Company Enters Into
Pact With AmaIgamated
Association.

The Capital Transit Co. and the
Amalgamated Association Of Street
and Electric Railway Employees today
entered INTO contract raising wages
an average of cents per hour for
trainmen, bus operators, shop and car
barn employees and some CT the road
department workers.
The agreement, effective March 30,
will continue for one year. 1t is eX-
pccted to mean an increase of about
$4,000 in wages paid my the CON-
pany during the year
The contract does not provide fat
Accent increase for all. It took into
account the fact that some men had
received wage increases last month
under the transportation code and
also that in merging the Washing On
Railway e. Electric Co. with the Cap
ital Traction Co. there were many
cases of discrepancies in pay for the
same class of work, which would
have made fiat increase inequitable.
Clerks Not Included.
AS a result, there are semployes
who will get no increase, some who
/ will get less than cents and some
who will get considerably more All
, the trainmen and bus operators, how
, ever, will receive the 4 cent per hour
increase.
John H. Hanna, president of the
transit company. said the contract
does not cover clerical employees, but
that there will be some salary in
creases for this class of workers
/. brought about through reclassifica-
ton.
The increases do not affect those
getting more than $1,000 or $4,000
per annum.
The company is operating under
a three-year contract with the Anal
gamated, bat the only clause of the
! contract under negotiation was the
wage clause.
Consider Recruiting Plans.
Meanwhile. Public Utilities Com
mission experts were considering plans
for extensive rerouting Of street car
lines at Fifteenth street and New York
avenue, Fourteenth street and New
York avenue and Fourteenth and H
streets.
Fred A. Sager, chief engineer of
the commission, said that several
plans are being studied, both by COM
mission engineers and those of the
Capital Transit Co, but that the pro-
posals are only tentative.
He said it was expected some weeks
would be required before engineers
are ready to report to the commits
sion on their studies on proposed
route changes of the street car COM
pany. Sager said it was apparent the
congestion of street car traffic was
greater at the points under consider
alton than other intersections of the
city.
May Run Down Fourteenth.
One plan is to direct some of the
lines south on Fourteenth street in
stead of making the loop around
FIFTEENTH street. Another tentative
suggestion is to run a track along
Fifteenth street from New York ave-
nue. to H street, but it is expected OBJ
Jections will be raised to that pro-
posal.
Previously. the Public Utilities
commission started distribution of
10000 cards which are to be used in
a study of the origin and destination
, of Street-car riders. All told. $50 900
residents of Washington are to be
asked to fill out such cards to give
the Public Utilities Commission data
on where street-car riders come from
and where they want to- go. This in
formation is to be used by the COM
mission experts in planning changes
OF routes and time schedules.
The cards are to be distributed to
residents through the Washington
Board of Trade and Government de-
partments.
Facts to Be Sought.
Residents will be asked to state
the method of transportation they
employ in going to and from work,
the time required for transit, where
they park their automobiles, If pri-
vate cars are used, and the location
of their residences and places of work.
Persons given the missionaries
also are requested to state If they
would change their method of trans
portation if an improvement was
made in the services Of the mass
transportation system.