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Show MORE MONEY FOR RAILROADERS Four Hundred Thousand Trainmen Granted Increase in Salaries. Washington. Wage advances aggregating ag-gregating $65,000,000 were ordered on April 11 by Director General Hines for .400,000 railroad engineers, firemen, fire-men, trainmen and conductors in both passenger and freight service members mem-bers of the Big Four railroad brotherhoods, brother-hoods, retroactive since January 1, 1919. The increases were arranged according accord-ing to contemplated schedule, one of the aims of which was to restore the wages relationship existing before the railroads' iucrease in wages last year. The average advance- in pay per man per year will be about $100. |