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Show I RAIL ROADS EXTEND WAGE REDUCTIONS WAGE CUT WILL BE MADE ON PRACTICALLY EVERY LARGE ROAD IN THE U. 8. JULY 1st 12 Per Cent Reduction of Pay Is Orders Or-ders of Rail Heads Which It Claims li Necessary to Meet Present Day Conditions Chicago. Employees on virtually every railroad In tho country will feel tho 12 per cent wngo reduction ordered by tho Utdtcd Stntcs rnllrond labor board to tuko effect, following a nup-rilementnl nup-rilementnl decision Mondny extending cue order to nearly 100 nddltlonnl roads. The wogo slash authorized by tlio bonrd on Juno 1 to tnko effect next rldny originally contemplated fourteen four-teen railroads, although not all employees em-ployees wero effected on nil roads. Mondny's addendum to that decision In eluded 210 roads, may of which were parties to tho original decision, but ivhlch returned to ask reductions for clnssess of their employees not covered cov-ered In tlio first ordor. Tho reductions authorized Mondny were Identical with tlioso of tho original origin-al ordor, tho only change being tho adaption ad-aption of rates for marlno workers 1n i.'crtaln hnrbors and of n section covering cov-ering restaurant nnd dining car cm-ploycccs, cm-ploycccs, whose wages wero ordered reduced by 00 per cent of nil increases received slnco February 20, 1020. With tlio exception of a few subsidiary subsi-diary lines, whoso parent owners filed petitions for reductions, every railroad In tlio country affected by decision No. 2, tlio labor bonrd's $000,000,000 wage nwnrd of July, 1020, has now been authorized to roduco wages an average of 12 per cent. Most of them lmvo received re-ceived mieli permission for all clnssw of employees. In addition, nenrly two scoro other roads which voluntarily applied ap-plied tho increased ncalo fixed by tho board in 1020, uIbo havo received authorization auth-orization to make a nlmllar cut. Bnslng IU figures on the normnl number of employees onnll ronds affected af-fected by decision No. 2, tlio labor board recently estimated that its 12 per cent reduction would lop approximately $100,000,000 from tho nation's railroad wuge bill, if apppllcd to all employees. Comparatively fow roads now havo a full quota of employees, but restoration restora-tion of normal conditions nnd application applica-tion of tho bonrd's cut to alt employees of the Inrgor railroads will probably make the ? 100,000,000 reduction a reality. |