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Show RAILROAD TO HELP ffiTlil PIES XEW YORK, Dec. 5. Directors of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway company today authorized a distribution equal to 10 per cent of a year's pay to all its employees In the service of the sysiem for at least iwo years and whose annual compensation does not exceed $ jr. i ni. President Ripley of the Atchison, Topeka To-peka tt Santa Pe railway said today that the amount to be distributed whs estimated esti-mated at about sj.T'O.ooo. Me said that the lailinnd, "especially since the influence influ-ence of the European war had been fully felt," has enjoytvl "'what appears to be an abnormal prosperity." 11 was In ree-ognitiiu ree-ognitiiu of this, ai:d or the increased cost of living t-hat led the directors to make the distribution, he said. NEW YORK, Dec. 5. Directors of the Western T'nion Telciapn company at a special meet in tr hulay voted a bnus to employees rece.'vin less than S2i)'ii a year 7 per cent of their annual salary to those receiving leiss than SlL'HU and 6 per cent to thosY! receiving between $!on and ?2"t'0. Messengers will receive J-ij each. The rcsltrnaticn of W. H. Bakr, secro-tr.r-y of tiie company, v:bs announced. Andrew An-drew b". Burleigh was appointed his successor. suc-cessor. SPRING Fl EI. Ii, Mny.. Dec. 5. All tho paper mills in western Massachusetts, Including In-cluding I b-lyok-i. Aiawam. Mit tinea tcue find Berkshire county, have granted their j employees an emergency honus of 10 per T cent in wages beginning December 15 and Tjito. computed monthly on the basis of the pre- "" ceding month's earnings. This plan will W continue until further notice and is grant- i ed, according to a statement, to offset the increased cost of living. Between 40UO and 5000 employees will benefit. DENVER. Dec. 5. The state Industrial commission announced todav that the miners min-ers of the Leadville district had been granted an increase of wages from 30 to f.O cents a day. The increase affects about 1S0I) men. Members of tho commission com-mission went to Leadville today to investigate inves-tigate working conditions. |