Show WAGE INCREASE IS ALLOWED re re MEN advances to ees based on living cost totals MAY NOT APPROVE IT II report of C commission m n SlI submitted matted to di 01 rector motor G general result in protest from fourn F four principal smith broth erhonda washington D C stay may 9 railroad smail employees loy to the number of will receive ata wage ill advances mcca ranging rang ing from I 1 to 43 per or let cent to 1 the lowest paid wor workers tion the total 1 I aggregating gur wall aa according to the be report of the railroad wage commission submit of I 1 ted tea to director 0 r general mcadoo mr mcacy mcadoo 0 1 U expected to adnot only part of the recommendations and ad probably will wake make a number of dlf dif fluent ferent alignments in deciding what wage increases shall be granted in general the director general ad h higher chor pit pa for roust most cie classes of workmen workman to a noble enable them mom to meet in clam creased a ad living coats cams but he br bas be been represented as favoring favor lne proportionate I 1 t ly IY larger increases for or some classes thao than for othera now law making the same mine i barth pay V he attia Is strongly opposed to gran granting dit wage increases which might disarrange dis at the general scheme of pay existing sting throughout throng hout other ludin industries tries lead leaders a an to protest the T he I 1 leaders elders of the four principal and railway brotherhoods brothe found on examining jual nine the report that hat they had bad bee been recommended for less than half the almor if they laul had asked of the go railroad road managements manage to laments menta before govern ment control started and which they repeated before the commis their demands had been for an average of Eom less lam than 40 per par coal cent and ad fact locren a acs ics fop theta them average less than 0 per cent L some union in trade leaders who be anticipated that the commission a to recommend mou a do a lions mr would a id dot at be tor far i ui scant great amounts a as they had asked already have appealed I 1 to director general madoo mado to amad 4 the proposed scale bable to give them higher pay others ho hower over virtu virtually s ily have agreed to accept the report the wane wage ad advances a which range at all I 1 the way pay from 1 to 54 a worth month are a increases above the am elmount t of pay each eh evard employee a yea was receiving oo on de cember other 31 1915 employees who have hae received ree efred advances ad rances since that date data will bon benefit effit now to the extent event of the differ ence abea between it their present wage and that fixed fired by the wage commission the not net mat cost of the th a addict additional I 1 pal pa to the I 1 or at and teishi athla fl exclusive of 1 the bit can mated deficit of to in 9 govern irce ment art op operation ration of the railroads this lear fee ce as a result of which direct general mcadoo contemplates ad avancing ties lp sentar came at least 2 24 per par cent ind and freight eight r rates rate POI possibly ably as much as an 15 per par met cent 8 baand baaed on a living C cort 1 lav tic the scheme ot of wage age advances adopt ed ad Is 11 based on 11 on 11 inquiry into the cost cast of id living if which the f found it haa ban increased approximately t IY 40 per cent to the average r ge railroad contend cm am mahe false receiving ming a mouth month th ehg maiora fl she average a workday presumably e eight gh I 1 hours but bar decided that in U the war emergency the nation could bot at afford to put let into effect a reform that would slow low down dean the war machinery and ad discriminate wm against other classes ot of workers worker being called up upon for far great acerb sacrifices rates of overtime pay tire are no not t tit ats to turbid bed and ad the more increases are 1 adjusted adjo fcc to the al mileage leager basis of if a of acme am employees a road engineer for r a example pit receiving an increase Inc rense ol of I 1 im per at cut cent 1 in 11 his mileage rate to A scheme of applying the tha increases to piece w work art and ove overtime atlea e to Is also provided an import important act feature foodim of the report was that where the same service ts Is rendered the pay shall be the same without admi as to t sair or race men report of consonant th the report pan of the commission con can sitting of franklin Frk ll K laos lane secretary oratory a of the ahr interior charles 0 I 1 mcchord 1 d J harry covington and ad william cw K W willcox limits Is an exhaustive one la in part pact the report says th the requests t which hare ham mile come to us for wage increases increase would it if fill fully 17 granted involve an additional in wages of somei somewhat ha at over om 1000 per year I 1 in excess of the n age fund food of last year which exceeded coded 2000 some naked asked lor for an increase tn crease of per cent in their pay and from this his aliey gradi graduated downward do we word to lo 10 per par cent none w were 0 re satis satisfied fled with their present wags wages wag s an all unprecedented call had mine come for men of certain cartel trades trade I 1 ID connection with the new industries that had ham been created by the war in europe and this long before our entry into at the al 11 machinists and fr iron worker of I 1 all ki kinds ade found theme themselves elves to be essential to the gre great at plants and day Is tabor bar of the most of unskilled killed character motor use rose into high demand cut off those thise not net needed the comm commission Is in recommends recommend that during daring the period of government eon con duel duct of if the railroads 11 r ad na I 1 salaries paid to officials who are not essential to the operation of the roads shall be charged as a part of the operating expenses there should be constituted a fr tribunal or tribunals to continue the study of railroad labor problems win corn posed to in part at 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