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Show 1100 WILL RAISE RAIL HS WAGES COMMISSION PROPOSES AN AVER. AGE 20 PER CENT ADVANCE IN PAY FOR ALL CLASSES. I Approximately $260,000,000 Will Be Added to the Pay Rolls of the Nation's Na-tion's Railroads, if Suggestions Are Put Into Effect. Washington. Director General Mc-Adoo Mc-Adoo will announce soon his decision on recommendations of the railroad wage commission, which were said in well-informed quarters to propose an average 20 per cent advance in pay for all classes of railroad employes. If Mr. McAdoo follows the suggestion of the commission, approximately $200,000,000 will be added to the pay rolls of the nation's railroads. Strong pressure is said to have been brought to bear on the director general gen-eral to modify some of the commission's commis-sion's recommendations, especially affecting af-fecting the four great brotherhoods., Mr. McAdoo is not bound to follow the advice of the commission and can increase in-crease or reduce their recommendations recommenda-tions as he sees fit. The commission lias followed its announced policy of giving the highest paid unions the lowest rate of advance, holding the relief is needed most by the men who have been barely making ends meet or perhaps going in debt on the wages they received. Apparently none of the commission's recommendations has met the requests of the unions themselves, which ranged as high us 40, 50 and GO per cent. i |