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Show UNION PACIFIC ADDS 1900,000 TD WAGE ROLL New Schedule for 14,000 Shopmen Effective . To-, To-, day; Grades of Pay Are Based on Seniority FOREMEN INCLUDED . IN BLANKET RAISE Lower Grade Machinist! Receive Highest Rate of . Increase; U. P. First to Recognize Section Men - Wage Inert1 asms which will ag-g ag-g re gale If 00, 000 a year and affecting affect-ing approximately shopmen bealdes 1800 foramen, were put Into effect today.-according to an an- ' noun cam ant by O. H. Hlnes. assistant assist-ant to tha vTeo prealdent of tha Union Pacific eyetem In charge of wagea. Tha now wage schedule 1a baaed on what la known aa the step rata and tha various grade. a being fUrured on a seniority baala. Tha Union Paolflo la aald to be the flrat railroad era em In ths country to racognlaa the seniority claims of the aactlon foreman. It Jm aald th lnereass will bo divided between th ahopmen and foreman In tha proportion of $50,000 to the former and $260,000 to tha latter. Wage lncreasaa for tha mlacel-laneous mlacel-laneous employes saaoeiatlon, which Includea telegraphere, maintenance main-tenance of way employes, store department de-partment men, who, prtor to July 1. 192$, were represented by the Federated fihopcrafts - aaaoclatlon and brldga and building employes, maintenance of way mechanlca and helpera who are not represented by tha maintenance of way organisation, organisa-tion, will go Into effect October 1. The wage Increase In thla mlacal-laneoua mlacal-laneoua group will effect approximately approx-imately 2200 employes. SEVERAL CLASSES INCREASED According to th schedule of pay for shopmen which Is effective today, to-day, fully qualified mechanics which Includes mach Inlet specialists, special-ists, machinist layer out, toot and sSV dlemakere and other akllled work, will receive $6 cents per hour, which la no in crease over the old ached-. ached-. ule. Qualified mechanics, who were receiving $0 cents an hour under the old achedule receive no Inereaae. . but thoee who received 7$ cents an hour have been Increased to 77 rente an hour and thoee who received re-ceived 7$ cent a per hour have been Increased to 74 rente. Mechanics who do work not requiring skill hsva received rates t cents Increase Voveranhe old achedule. Km ploy ee under this group, who received a $4 snd 00 cents per hour have been Increased to 70, CI and $ cents. per hour. . Mschlntsts helpera hsva received an Inereaae amounting to $ cents an ,hour. which la baaed upon the length of service the employe has with the company. Helpers who previously received , , 4t and 47 cents an hour have been Increaeed to 65. 61. 61 and O cento a hour reepectlvely. BOILERMAKERS INCREASED. Tha aame classification of pay that waa framed for tha machinists nppllea to the bollermakers work. Qualified mechanics In that department depart-ment receive $6 cents an hour, which Is no Increase over the superceded su-perceded achedule. Other mechanlca mechan-lca under the bollermaker group re-cefo re-cefo the 1-ccnt Inereaae almllar to the machinists, with the exception of the helpers, who are on a elm!- lar seals as th maehlnlet helper. Blacksmiths, who on ths super-reded super-reded schedule, were receiving . j i and SO cents an hour for work requiring qualified mechanics, receive re-ceive th an me pay on the new schedule. Other under that elaaef- I flratlnn. audi aa thoee that received 7 cent an hour, hav been In-1 creased to TT cent, en hour, and .those that were receiving 71, 01 and Vl cente an hour hav been raised -in 74. 70 and St cents an hour re-" re-" spectlvely. Helper under thla classification ar Increaeed , com meneurate with other helpera - Sheet metal worker, electrician., passenger carmen employes, who previously received IK centa an hour for being qualified mechanlca, receive re-ceive the asms rata, but thoee with preeent rate ranging from to 17 centa hav received a 1-cent In-rreae. In-rreae. Coach cleaners snd helpers in these three classifications have generally received a 1-cent Increase, k prelsht carmen employee, who were receiving 74 osnts en hur, here been Increased to 70 centa, with thoee employe In moidera' work oh-raining oh-raining an Increase of 1 centa TERRITORY OUTLINED. Differential abov th eehedule rate provided In the agreement for the various claeelflcattone for work performed will be eetabllshed as follow: Thre ent per hour for -seher ebop employes, engine house snd power plant workers" at Rawlins Raw-lins and weet. Minidoka. Glenns Ferry Dubois, Urns. BUver Bow. Huntington. Umatilla. Starbuck. Kernels, Telocaeet. Pleasant VsJIey. Termo, K.leO. I -OS Vegss snd Csl-ienta. Csl-ienta. Ths differential under the old schedule wss 1 cents sn hour, mil. buhdluetaolnshrdluetaoinunu Ths new eehedule, which I an th step rat method. Is commensurate commen-surate to the shop employes' ln creeee, but section are divided snd rates of pay based on seniority snd locations, whether they be yard, county or- desert sections. A foreman fore-man beginning with th railroad will receive 11 II per month and will be Increased et th ret af ti Ml pee year for the first nlns years, when h will then receive 111 per month. Th seniority m-creeee m-creeee of tl.10 doe not operate after th ninth year. Th foramen will relv straight pay for the ninth and tenth hour of work, but will receive time and one-half for all hour over tan. Sections on the desert or tn th larg terminal will receive II In-era In-era over th country sections At preeent tn eectlon foreman maximum pay 1. tlM.10 per month. Under-the new rate th maximum will be fill, an average In creese of 14.10 a month. Bridge and building foremen and twenty-fir other claeelflcationa of foremen receive re-ceive kvcisasss randlng from I-to I-to I0 per month. i tliitll recently th ect!en fore-tnerl fore-tnerl on the -Union Pacific were members of th maintenance of I way aaaoelatlan, hut under a re- j cent rsorganlsation the section, foremen were mad a separate orV ganlaatloa by . themselves. Corf eiderabls opposition wss mad I foremen to the ehang fa tbe organisation, or-ganisation, "but . "Mr. Bines said today- that 00 per cent hd now Joined th. new sclioa foremen', organisation. |