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Show FDRTER ASSERTS TIPS NECESSARY TO LIVING WAGE Employees of Pullman Company Com-pany Are Given Opportunity Opportu-nity to Testify in Federal Fed-eral Probe. MANAGER OBJECTS TO STRAIGHT SALARY Comptroller Declares Company's Com-pany's Waiting List Is Not Affected by Scarcity Scar-city of Labor. By International Xews Service. WASHIXGTON, Feb. 23. "This tip-pin tip-pin business is the worst thins I ever I did see. It don't amount to a hill of beans, neither, but we got to have 'em." J. T. Padgett, a railroad porter, thus summed up for the railroad wage commission com-mission today the whole system of tip-pin tip-pin and the American riding public. Secretary Lane, chairman of the commission, com-mission, asked the manager of the Pullman Pull-man company earlier in the hearing if it "were possible to change the American Ameri-can temperament to the extent of doing away with tips'?" The manager replied that at straight salary would be "positively "posi-tively injurious to the service." The porter, working on a southern railroad, rail-road, explained that they hated to take tips sometimes, but the passengers seemed to think it was necessary to get good service. The porter also explained that they needed the money "sornethin awful.' Ordinary railroad porters, he said, were generally $15 and $20 In debt over the month's wages. Pullman porters whose lips are higher draw in some cases lower salaries. Other railroad organizations represented were steam shovel dredge men, dispatchers dispatch-ers and operators, Pullman conductors and switchmen. J. N. Maxwell of Indianapolis appeared on behalf of eighty-three gatemen and baggagemen of the station there. These men. he said, worked twelve houra a day, sometimes for fourteen weeks without a lay off, and rarely ate a meal with their lamilies. Jn most cases heard, shorter hours nr.d "consideration"' of the evidence submitted submit-ted were asked. "Little Fellow" Heard. The "little iV-llow" among railroad employees em-ployees was represented today before the railroad wage commission, which was .-isked not to forget thousands of workers, work-ers, organized and unorganized, who con-ribute con-ribute materially to the operation of train, but are little known to the public. Kmployees of the Pullman company were c.ven official inclusion nmong railroad rail-road men under government jurisdiction when Secret r: ry Lane, chairman of the -ommission, told one of their number he might proceed with his representations or. the theory that the Pullman company is a common carrier. Tipping, which Pullman car porters recently re-cently tesetified was relied on to supplement supple-ment their s rn p. l i salaries, wa.s defended today by 1 S. Hungerford, general manager man-ager of the Pullman company. -,f porters were put on a straicht sal-, try, do you Thtf.k tipping would con-ui.ue." con-ui.ue." asked sjecrejary Lane. t General Practice. j "You must take into cor;?. deration that i ; ij-ping is a vry general practice,"' Mr, j i f -cc?- riord repiirl. "I think the porter ! eel' that i.e earns the tips and that the r a avengers fpj the same way. T (pive I'.'f- port-rs are fuT.v entitled to the tins." "Yd:? do not t idnk, then." S'.k (rented i "omrc.issioner Covir.erton. "t:.at the Pu!I-r.an Pu!I-r.an f.vtiipariy coiid readjust the tempera -r..f-nt ri the Amerhn people i:i regard "o handing o--:t a dime or a quarter for ;;t ra .- t--'. ir e ''" "I don't thmk it w-juM be advisable to rt fjolish tipph-t; on Pnilrm'tns i;nle it was : oli.-.'ned elsewhere." tr.e witness an- Mr. H'mgerf'ird Paid few .lining ran :v)-.v v.-re ftp1 rated iv th Pu'lnvn rorn-; rorn-; sr.-, a!! of them b-ioniriz- to the ratl-'o;i',s ratl-'o;i',s nt. whk-h ti;ey are mn. Range of Salaries. I.. S. Taylor. on.ptroiy-r fie I'n.l-.-.an ornpa ny. told tr.e ' on.nii-; , e par. v'h v aif li.z 'ist Pad not n y :'-r.r-t'l ,.' th H'-fcr-ity of labor. H" -vH .'if(f.;-r o. f' fd la rit - 7urif- f roin JTo tn '"V i: ordh. with a 10 pr T.t hotviR .-r.r -'j r, j month salary f-r a -,f-ar vji'.if, ii ti--r.f i t - arid 'ertain hoti'js- 'i'tr rift --, v.ir.4 of ?-,:v porU-r-t re-'ei''e re-'ei''e f roru ..:j 'r. :.') r-g':!ai !y, while ,rlyf. on t roop tiding r $ 7 ' niont hiy. . .;- ' lo v j :igf on v. .i nt'd to i;n-w if the nirp: er pay of a troop t:ain p'r'r was -!. en r." rt ' t :.e P-svt t ipplng n ol!-of ol!-of yd'Ji-r-v I it V flK'iif-d iiiW!i;i t on t ; t- , :.af added -'-mp-r.'-af ion 1-t :ir,;'," Mr. Huntf -r ford r-: h-d with a ::':'.'. "T'.t- tifH-jf, tr-nn port'-rs ii!?o have nrL''- r'-.pornt 1 1 for t,v n-t uh (.on- ! ri'-tora." . . '.y td'-a. a P'j!i r. m n 'on'lijrtor, --Tid V. f ond wtor-M h;i i-) to woi k long ! hvi'!!, j.rjt ;i .lowed to i-p whil on d-jT". Mitdeio 1. ' xr""n-i on th road . i . i addition to rn; i n t ;i i rung f rw-ir f; inili- a'.d t.;it l'ia .a;;irv sfter s!t var!' r-j' r-j' e v. a rn' r.' h. Seek Increases. .. '.r:-,,- ;,tl W M. '.'- ';. inter- j ;t i'.: i;i . r-rc-.id' n ' . -k -d v i ii- r-i 4 oi' rr.err b-i - o;" " ri- J f . t r f i ' ; o 1 1 .i I Cfith'-r-.ood of ,-ic.iin ,.o'.d - j i J f 'i '-d'.-rifM to , ,,rr, , a ' for tf- f.vt tii.i' tiu'ir hiif ,-.-, n f,i:lv ahosit dir'if. n.on' of i;,p i..,,- ' :. ,r p. i'.' now i.a ;ioo-ji JJ7, ,t i i i a 'l;- f ' . o'-r-t I f b i i r Mi,t n of ' i- '!, r-d a " -o- .a f .Of! Oi" T-V ei: , u-ii"d h.i ;. I'-iv 'T n"i-''o enipl'.-, ,. o il-! '' ''i'a l .'-d ' r.a of .v t , i t i... v.'.'Ti 'f." v'.rk f rfoi ir'-'l w, ;m th'-: th'-: f . f ( i- ' ' d 1 -i t m,i ii ,' fivro' -p.- ,:.; .'-' : M;ini ior'-r v. 'uti l!.(v should he known as passenger brake-men. brake-men. because the railroad thought the public would lip a porter when they would not tip a hvakemun. thereby enabling en-abling the companies to keep down the porters' wanes. J. W. Hiins. executive secretary o! the Western Assocciation of Flail ways, re-9 re-9 ppcareil before the. commission to ri v e exact figures on wa.ee increases in the western territory durinsr 191 n nd 1917. whirli , lie said, amounted to ?.t7.$7.V."u't or an average of $151.47 per mi'ii. lie urged that ninny classes of employees wlio had not been represented before the commission should be given t he same consideration in any increases as tfiose whose cases had been presented by the heads of important unions. |