Show HAIL MEN INCREASE allowances based on living cost benefit UP TO madoo FOR APPROVAL commission Submits Report to the iliew director Ge genera dealing W with it I 1 ya va rious phases of the railroad situation washington D 0 may 9 an ad tance in wages to railroad employees em plo and ranging from 1 I 1 per cent highest to 43 per pei cent to the lowest paid aggregating Is provided for la in we report to 16 director general mcadoo by the railroad wage commission mr mcadoo Is expected to adopts adopt only part of the recommendations and probably y will make a number of different alignments in deciding what wage increases shall be granted an in general the director general advocates higher pay for most class classes of workmen to enable them to meet increased living costs but he has been represented as favoring prop proportionately te larger increases for some classes than for others now making the same pay he also Is strongly opposed te io i granting wage increases es which might disarrange the he general scheme of pay existing throughout other industries leaders to protest the leaders of the four principal i railway brotherhoods brothe found on examining the r report that they had heen been recommended for less than half the increases they had asked of the railroad managements before govern 8 scale aile of rates of increases in pay awarded to railroad workers by the wagi wage commission present bent new present it new present new monthly ir rate rate monthly rate rate ra te monthly rate rate to to to 1 to to 1433 11 to as l to to to to to to rooi to 72 61 to to to to to to to to t to to to 01 to r 1500 to to t 0 0 to t to to to 12 SOO 1 t to to to t to it to to 1700 1 t to to to t to to to to t to to to t G to t to 0 to t 21 0 to i to to t to 0 to to t 00 60 22 W 01 to to i t to t to t to t 0 to t to to to t to I 1 t 0 to t to to to to t to to to t to to to t abo 73 01 H to to t t 1 0 to to t I 1 t 0 to 14 to t t 0 to 1400 to to to 00 to t t to t 1 to t t to ba to t 0 to to t to to to t off t 0 shoo to to t t 0 to to 1 at 1 to to to t t 0 MOO IS to to t 43 t 0 to to t to 0 to 01 to t to t czi 01 t 0 00 boo t 1232 to t to I 1 to to to t I 1 to 12 to to t szol t 0 t to 0 01 to t 22 2900 t to 2 1001 to t 2 vi to to to t to DOW to to t to to t to to P t to 0 to t t 09 00 13 to 23 t to t 1 to t to to to to to to to t to 1 to to t 01 to to to t t 0 to to t to 0 to to t 0 to to to t 00 to 13 to to t to to to t to to 05 to t to t to 1111 to to t 00 to to to t linol to 0 0 to t 1000 anent control started and which t thy repeated before the commission thier demands had been for an average of somewhat home what legs less than 40 per cent and increases for them average less than 20 pai per r cent some union lead leaders ers who anticipated that the commissions recommendations would not be for as great amounts as te they had asked already have beve ap appealed pealA DIrector to general mcadoo M to amend the proposed scale to give ave them bliem higher pay others however vi virtually have davd agreed to accept the report the wage advances which range all the way from 1 to 34 a month are increases inc eases above the amount of pay each employee was receiving on december employees who have received advances since that date will benefit now to the extent of the difference between their present wage and that fixed by the wage commission the net cost of the additional n pay lo 10 the railroads Is estimated at this la exclusive of the estimated deficit of irl in government operation of the rall railroads mads this year as a result of which director general mcadoo pon contemplates templates advancing passenger rates at least 2 per cent and freight rates possibly as much a as 15 per cent based on living costa zhe the scheme of wage advances adopt aa d ts 6 based on an ah inquiry into the cost coat of living which the commission found has as increased approximately 40 per cent ceni t to 0 the average railroad employee receiving 85 a month the commission fabors it a shorter average workday presumably elgirt eight houra but decided that in the war emergency the nation could not no afford tafford to put into affect a reform that would slow down the tha war machinery and discriminate against other ciet classes aies of ivor workers kers being called upon tor for great baci flees rates of overtime pay are not disturbed and the increases Increase sare are adjusted to the mileage basis of compensation of some employees a road engineer tor for examples example receiving ah an increase of 11 ll per cent in his mileage rate A scheme of applying the increases to piece work and overtime Is also provided an important feature of the report was the recommendation that where the same service to is rendered the pay shall be the same without discrimination as to SPI sex or race report of commission There The report pori of the commission consisting of franklin K lane secretary of the interior charles charles 0 mcchord J harry covington and william R willcox la Is an exhaustive one in part the ibe report says i the requests which have I 1 come toi us ua for wage increases would if fully granted involve an additional outlay in wages of somewhat over per year la in excess of the wage fund of last year which exceeded 2000 some asked for an increase of per cent in their pay and from this they graduated downward to 10 per cent none were satisfied with their present wages to classify the many hundreds of employments in which the railroad workers engage would be a task calling for more time skill insight and knowledge than we possess at the outset it ft was seen that there were grave inequalities in the rates of wages paid but who could say what relationship each class clasa of employees should bear to tho the other abstractly why should ail aft engineer receive per moaitt and a telegraph operator 00 per month in the world of economics this sit nation has haa been made by the simple application of supply and demand which Is in turn furn now varied affected and modified by those limitations arising out of this the artificial but necessary I 1 and historic ruet methods cods hods of collective bargaining nevertheless there stands out one dominating fart recognized by railroad workers as well as by railroad officials that the lower grades of railroad employment those jn in which the he sup supply ply of labor has been less restricted strict ed and where organization has been difficult if not impossible deserve wage increases out of pr proportion op to the lac increases for those in superior grades an unprecedented calt call had pom come e for men of certain trades in connection with the new ne industries that had been created h ly y the war in europe and this long before our our entry into the conflict machinists and iron workers of all kinds found themselves to be essential to the grent plants and day jabor of the roost most unskilled character rose into high demand cut off those not needed the commission recommends that during the period of government conduct duct of the milr railroads odds no salaries paid to officials who are not essential to the operation of the roads shall be charged as part of the operating expenses should be constituted a trl tribunal bunal i 6 or r tribunals to continue e the study of railroad labor problems corn com posed in part at least of men experienced en ed in this kind of wor work kifor for conditions are ever changing 1 |