Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-12-24 | Page 11 | Dispatchers Ask Increase

j DISPATCHERS ASK INCREASE Western Men Want Wage Fixed at S175 a Month. SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec. 23. Spokane train dispatchers, thirty-six in number. Rre preparing to petition all railways operating op-erating here to Increase their wages to 3175 per month, effective January 1. The wages at present range from S125 to $la0. They state this Is a Dart of a great national movement, backed by similar petitions In all parts of the country, the purpose being to raise train dispatchers' wages to S160 oast of the Mississippi and to $175 west of the river. If a satisfactory Increase is not granted grant-ed before June It is proposed to bring the oucstlon before the convention of the Train Dispatchers' association nt Baltimore, which up to the present has taken no action on wage disputes.