OCR Text |
Show U. P. SHOPMEN TO : GET WAGE BOOST ABOUT NINETY WILL BE AFFECTED HERE Mechanical department employes of the Union Pacific system lines are !o receive pay increases aggregating .'1, OOO.OPO a year, it was announced in Salt Lake Sunday by II. J. Plum-Imf, Plum-Imf, general manager of the Oregon Short Line, upon advice from W. M. JefiYrs, operations vice president of the system. Approximately 11,000 employes in ill of the thirteen .state" served by the Union Pacific will be affected by the wage increase. The increases uv-lage uv-lage from 2 to 5 cents an hour. The increase was granted as the outcome of a conference in Omaha during the last week between repre-fntatives repre-fntatives of the Union Pacific sys-'em sys-'em shop employe's association and company officials. Tribune. Miss Juanita Miller, time-keeper in the chief clerk's office at Milford stated that she did not know to what extent the raise in wage scale would jenefit local shopmen, as the local office has had no orders on the changes yet. It it not known therefore there-fore when the increases will go into effect. There are about ninety men em-.ileyed em-.ileyed in the shops at Milford, ex-.lusive ex-.lusive of foremen. |