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Show PULLMAN COMPJUIY 10 IIUSE WAGES $500,000 Will Go to Con ductors and Porters, Remainder Re-mainder to Agents CHICAGO Dec "7 Salary increases aggregating J800 000 for the year 1918 wl 1 be a New Year a gift of the Pu lman com pany to certain of Its employeea Five hundred thousand dollars of It w II go to conductors and porters and the re malnder to various agents They number 8000 out of 7 000 employees Workers In manufacturing and repair plants are not Included At the Chicago sessions of the United States commission on Industrial relations it was testified that the nages of con ductors on Pullman cars were very low and that porters were practically depend ent upon tips Later Prank P Walsh of Kansas City chairman of the commission said that at Wash ngton Robert T L nco n chair man of the board of the company prom ised that the d re to s Tiould" cons der the mat er of the pay of conducto s and porters At the offices of tl e company today It was n mated however that the ad vances ong had been contemplated and that if anyth ng attacks by w tnesees before the comm sslon delaj ed rather t an acce erated t e move The advance is said to be about 10 per cent for conductors and more than that for porte a At he commiss on hearings It was tes ifled that conductors start work at 70 a month are raised to j S at the end of two years and that the maxlmun Is $100 a month One porter said he received $42 50 a month and often made $76 add lonal n Ips Other porte por-te s general y rece ed smaller wages and some test fled that t ps on many runs were very small in the aggregate |