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Show mm Oil RAIL17AY PAYROLL Claim Made by Attcr-bury Attcr-bury That National Agreement Cost Lines 300 Million Last Year CHICACO. March 2X-Nlion-1 ajrrcemonta between railroad rail-road employer, ami thfir rm-ploye. rm-ploye. forrnl the roala to carry 176. 2 "unnwriwary employee." la W. W. Atterbury. k-e preel- dent of the renneylvenla railroad, rhari-ed before the fnltrd rttalce rmit-rnad rmit-rnad tabor board today. Tb. roaria were forced In par ut ver 0.ooi.o last year aireae payroll, due lo the nallnnal .greemenie. Atterhurv rlslmed. IWi M Jewell. pre.Ment of the rallwar labor department nf lha Amr-Iran Amr-Iran Federation of lji'r. attacked lha accuracy of Atterbury a figures FEDERAL STATISTICS, j Alterhury maila a formal atate. anent in lha board In which ha .anted federal alaliailca In ih"W thai total railroad payroll for 1 tu1 4 aM.ooe oo. I "In e leases of employment covered by lha national agreement. l.jni.H nan wer. employed In HIT," ha ealrt I In ICO there waa an Increae. of, ;: man" ! Atterbury aald lha Inrreese waa dua tha "eight-hour day. derreaae In production par man and Inrraaaad bueineea." -In 117 lha eamlnr. of employee "were t,l SI0.1M 7M. or 117 l par man." tha wllneee rontlnued "In 110 aarnlnr amounted In 11.444.-T4144I. 11.444.-T4144I. or 11701 JO par man. "Increaae In ion mile, waa 4 4 par rani In over 1017. EXCESS OF MSN. "Aeaumlng that tha Increase In umlar of amployaa la directly pro-1 portion. e to lha Inrraaaa In biiel- neea, whlrh la an aaaiimptlon In lha , amployaa favor, It would require Kt - 1 4 additional man. leaving 174 J mn In airaaa In 1120 compared with 117. Thee, airaaa man, at tha avar-... avar-... earning of II7M.M par man. ahow n excess expenditure of lca.ll.-il4. lca.ll.-il4. - "It la fair to Mala (hat In lha 170110 ara many paymanla dua lo tha national agreem.nta If thaaa payment, could ha eegregeted, for lha I I.204.1M employee It e-ould greatly Inrraaaa tha imo.OOO.OOO." CAR HI PAIR C0T. ' Atlarbury told tha board Interna-tlonal Interna-tlonal arbitration eommlttaaa made binding decision, on tha quaallon of, distribution of car rapalr coat f'r thai different rail road a of tha to I tad j tltataa, Canada and Mexico, - Frank 1". Walsh, labor attomay. ! brought out Ihla .t.lemenx because of a previous claim by Atlarbury that I national agieemcnt. cannot ba made aronomlrally applicable to all railroad rail-road a Walah polnlad out a rtila of general application la applied by tha ' rallroada Ihemeelvee, Alterbury'a taallmony waa concluded conclud-ed today. . Jawall will maka a formal atata- I mant to tha board tomorrow In da- j frnaa of lha national agreementa. I |