| Show Pori Porters s Talking Wage Rise j S Let Lei F Four our Chickens ESc Escape pe Pullman Car Kings Declare They Need the Money Particularly Particularly Particularly Par- Par in the Winter One Man Says He Got i in Tips in Eight Days I Four chickens escaped with their lives t today day at the union d depot pot because the only persons they passed in their dash to liberty liberty liberty lib lib- lib lib- erty from a broken crate who might have stopped them were two Pullman porters Why didn't the porters stop stop- them Because all porters are re too busy today talking about their coming increase se in real salary to notice chickens I Salary Increase Announced d. d The Pullman company compan has haR just announced an announced an- an salary Increases aggregating for Cor the year 1916 to he be di divided ill tU- vided among its its of w whom are mr re f porters bEters and and conductors ond c ors Its It's About Time They Say it Jt It is about tim time that porters were weIn being paid at least enough on which to live without being dependent upon gratuities for sufficient s income said ald saida a n porter who has been sixteen years on one one one-of of the coast trains The public pub pub- tic lie thinks that porters get gt much higher high high- er salaries than than they they- flo po I am sure it would be bea a a surprise to many to know that we get only S 6 s a montha month mouth a sum which an office GO by l oy would ha bo Ashamed to work for for core forn-core more than a no f year ear or two to If we did not hot get generous gen erous tips we could not exist exist and and in I winter time it is if hard har to g get t alon along i because travel i is iJ so light I Big D Discussion cus ion Is Result i The announcement of or this this' increase I in the time wages Wages o or of porters is bringing up upa a wide discussion of oC the tipping ques ques- tion Porters it would seem would mu rather much h Jather be he given a self ing salary and have an anti tipping law in hi effect The public complains abou I having ing to tip Up for service on trails s when the they la pay la the railroads I sufficient for tor the thc transportation to get this service but if the public w would l make male a a. law controlling time the I v. v of train s and require that they get enough salary to l keep cp t there would be bo no need of tiC- f tipping said one of the time younger younger- porters who is working for time Soo Sue Line I r know that the tho Pullman porters get et only 25 a month We Vc get et 28 on the Soo in Tips in Eight Days In the last eight days day's I ha have V re- re tonly in tips lips which moans means that a p porter rtE rtE-r has difficulty y in g getting along along- at all in wint winter r. r People arr ar hanging on to their money mony this winter Out of eight ht lowers and two uppers uppers' on th the car which 1 I brought in today I got only 60 cents centRo It lt is ig unjust for forthe forthe the thc public to allow porters s to depend pend pendon on tips for an income Thin Picking in Winter Another porter who works woi for the Pullman company compan in the time summer but ut says he cannot make a living in the winter months on his salary and tips says he will wili return for the winter service if the raise promised is sufficient sufficient suf aol to make male the time tips unnecessary aJ I can make more I in 1 the city all winter inter than I can on oi- th the trains he lie says The increase in sal salary ry make the porters more moie seH-r seH self respecting and certainly more willing tn in remain remain- with i with the company compan all lh the tho year car around Federal Feder 11 Probe Made MacIc Th The porters say suy that this comes as a rt result sult of the investigation of the United States tates Commission on Industrial Conditions An average Increase in increase increase in- in crease of about 22 a year car Is contained In the time Pullman New Kew Ye Years Year's rs r's gift the believe |
