Evening star., 1936-11-13
MANYIF|RMSL|ST
SALARY INCREASES
White Collar Workers and
' Factory Hands Get
Pay Boosts.
~ the Associated Press.

CHICAGO. November ia happy
host of Americans yesterday Joined
the expanding army OF employees
granted higher pay.
White collar workers as well as mill
and factory hands were accorded
greater compensation.
Northwestern University announced
O 10 per cent salary increase for all
members of its personnel in education,
administrative and other departments
who were on the staff prior to Sep
tember l, 1888. A per cent raise was
provided for those in service for at
least six months since that date and
who earn less than 1000 a year. The
funds will be taken from the recent
s7,0o0.000 Roger Deering gift to the
Big Ten school. They become ef-
fective next January l.
The American Woolen Co. posted
notice of a 10 per cent pay hike No
vember, % for 1850 employees at its
Providence, r. l., plants and for l3,Sou
at Lawrence and Andover, Mass.
5000 Share in Increases.
Wage boosts of between 812 and Q
per cent were extended to the 5000
persons on the pay roll of the Royal
Typewriter Co. at Hartford, Conn.
Upward revisions were also voted for
5000 employees of the Arlington Mills,
200 at the Seldom Worsted Mills, 800
at the Monomac Spinning Co. and
4.800 at the Pacific Mills. The Seldom
factory is in Methuen, Mass. The
others are in Lawrence, Mass.
Nearly 1000 factory workers at the
Mishawaka CInd) Rubber & Woolen
Manufacturing Co. were given pay in
creases ranging from S to 10 per cent
and effective next Monday.
Directors of the Western Auto Sup
ply Co. at Kansas City ordered 5
per cent pay increase for employees
receiving s2,500 year or less. 1t goes
into effect November 18.
officials of the Ferguson & Lange
Foundries in Chicago said per
cent raise granted in october would
be matched by similar hike next
January l.
SdSH DOHuS TiauHCus
The Addressograph-M ltigrap h
Corp. at Cleveland planned a cash
bonus of one weeks pay for 500 per-
sons.
The Uxbridge Worsted Co.. employ
ing approximately 5000 workers in
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut, said its employees would share
wage increases of approximately
s720.0o0 annually, beginning Novem-
Der %. The increase, Harold ]. Wal
ter, treasurer, said. would approximate
10 per cent for each worker.
The Waucantuck Worsted Co, also
Of Uxbridge, Mass. announced a sim
liar increase for its 600 employees.
The Comic Manufacturing Co. al
Rochester. N. H., posted notices in its
Comic and Cocheco mills at Rochester
and the Ware mill at Ware. Mass, oi
~ per cent wage increase, effective
January l. and Christmas bonus OF
t25 for each employe on the company
pay roll November 2.
Second Bonus of Year.
1t was the second bonus this year
for Comic employees, a SIS bonus hav-
ing been passed out by the company
IN September. = -,-es., -
The Comic Manufacturing Co. en-
ploys 1880 persons.
Wage increases Of so cents a day
for nearly 1880 miners in the Occur
DAlene districts were announced by
major producing companies at Wal
lace, Idaho.
Better prices for lead. silver and
kinc are responsible, mine officials
said.
Under the increase, common labor
will be paid S. day, muckers, s525;
miners, s575, and timber men, s625,
beginning with pay checks distributed
about December 18.
Wages Of $50 employees of the Dunn
Worsted Co. at Woonsocket, r. l., will
be increased 10 per cent, beginning
November %, s. Dunn, treasurer, an
nounced.