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Show WESTERN RAILWAYS GIVE WAGE BOOST ENGINEERS BENEFIT BY NEW AGREEMENT The following article tells of a new award- in wage increase to locomotive engineers on western roads. This affects af-fects 22,500 men on 55 western railroads. rail-roads. The increase, under the new agreement, amounts to-an average of fifty-five cents per day for each engineer. en-gineer. No data is available on the number of engineers on the Los Angeles An-geles & Salt Lake who' will benefit from the increase. Chicago, June 19 An increase amounting-to 6 1-2 per cent of the daily wage scale today was awarded the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Engin-eers by the conference of managers of the Western Railways, affecting approximately 22,500 employees and totaling $4,500,000 a year.. . The increase in-crease was agreed to by W. M. Jeffers chairman of the railway managers representing re-presenting about fifty-five western railroads, and A. Johnson, grand chief engineer representing " the "Brotherhood. "Brother-hood. Salt Lake Tribune. |