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Show WILL IRK DAK OF EIGHT HOURS WITHJERTII jTwo Thousand Yard Boe Affected by Order of the Railroad Labor Board, Revising Schedule of Pay CHICAGO. Oct. 1 (By A. P.) An elght-hotir day with overtime, which la aald to amount to nearly a 26 per cent Increaae In ray, were granted to approximately SOOi) yardmaaters on twenty-alz class one railroads and at alx switching terminals by the Vnlted 8tatea railroad labor board today. Thla la the flrat time the board haa a-tabllahad a-tabllahad rulea and working conditions for ysrdmasters, who now are classi-fled classi-fled aa subordinate offlclnla and sub-Ject sub-Ject to the board'a Jurisdiction under the transportation act. By establishing the eight-hour day with pro rata overtime wagea, the yardmaatere affected virtually have been awarded a 2i per cent wane advance, ad-vance, according- to J. B. Kldrldge, prealdent of the Railroad Yardmaaters of America. The organization la International In-ternational In scope. The ruling affecti all ysrdmasters on the roada Involved, except auch general yardmaatere aa were claasl-fied claasl-fied aa offlclala under a ruling of the Interatate corrrmerge commleslon laat rrovemtier: On at tmTM melts- nwila, yardmnaters have agrecmente with the railroad! which will govern In thoae cases. The. Delaware TySckawanna, the Penneylvania and the Illlnola Central railroads were excluded from the de-ciaion de-ciaion today. W. I.. Mc.Menlmen, a labor member of the board, althouVh contending that those three roada were properly before the loard In the matter, voted to exclude them. In order to obtain a decision which otherwise oth-erwise would have failed, for lack of one vote. The rulea provide that yardmaatere required to work seven daya a week ahull be given two daya off each month. The Yardmaaters' aasoclntlnn tsanld to have a membership of between 4000 and 6000. Among the roads affected by the decision are the New York Central, linea eust and west: Baltimore A Ohio; Kansas City Kotuhern; Kansas City, Oklahoma A Gulf; Missouri Pacific; Pa-cific; San Antonio A Aransas Pass; Ienver Pnlon Terminal; Kort Worth & Denver Cltv: Clulf Coast Lines; Seaboard Air Lines; Texaa & Pacific, and Wabash. |