Show MIJ MY HIGHER PAY ADMITS WAGE ADVANCE SHOULD BE MADE TO NEET MEET HIGH COST OF LIVING chairman of conference committee of railroad Man manage agea telli labor t byard avard mounting expenses juav ties fits granting part demands calgo the opening statement of the employers tilde aide of the lie railroad wage question wax was presented on slay may 17 27 before the united states hollway hallway labor board which opened limi hearings rIngs in 1 chicago following a recent two w tek in washington at which rv presen t at ives ot of railroad employed emp loyes were heard MIT U T whiter chairman of the ilia con ferench committee of the railroad managers read a prepared statement lit in which lie he suld mild that wage advances should be granted to many railroad workers to enable thein to meet the high co cost coit st of living according to whiter lter total demands of tit alic rait rail employees include new th of approximately twe twenty n fy five tier per cent would if granted by the labor board not only absorb the revenues ex front from the increase lit in freight rates asked of the interstate coin luence commission but would force the carriers to ask for additional rate ln ili cren lie pointed out on behalf of the rail executives that each in t reave lit in rall mil espensen rp resented a three per cent in freight frel glit rates lie sald uld that for every cent an hour bour increase in wages to rail ein plo ces gOO WOW waff added to rall rail road puy pay rolls the increase in employed lit in 1019 1919 over those ot of 1015 lie ho sold eald was oil ap or nearly forty five per cent tile the ralli railroad ond payroll increased ir or 1419 per cent we appreciate fully mr whiter mild ani that tile the increases In creasea rec received elved by retno in ili iha file last five years yeara have not been ill the in lie cot of living we VL appreciate dilso nl that there tire nrc other oilier employees employ eta who are ro receiving bulej rat illicit cannot bf be at ill all low in ill nn an absolute yet which olo do not compare favorably in somo bome to lo wages paid similar ollar lr occupations in industries |