Show m RAIL GET INCREASE Telegraphers and Station Agents Profit By Ruling CHIC CHICAGO GO Nov Kov Increase 26 26 6 ot of wages affecting approximAtelY railroad telegraphers and tation s aps a agents and aggregating ape ap- pro were awarded In a decision announced Sunday b by the United States railroad Labor board The board explained that It hid attempted to correct exist existing j ing Inequalities without attempt attempt- ling ing ing- attempting and without ratting a general Increase The of or I a punitive rate ot or time and one half for 0 overtime to tele tele- telegraphers telegraphers I and station agents was also awarded and a a few other in rules were authorized The Tho parties to the case In n which the decision was WIlS rendered are aro the Brotherhood of Railway Station es the Order of Railroad Telegraphers and twenty-six twenty rail rail- road rail ro r old d companies The plan pursued by rby the board was to deny Increases I on e roads where it found the exist exist- existing existing ing rites equal to the average paid on roads in the same I territory and to award Increases on other roads which would l bring their rates up to the average paid In their territory by comparable roads In some somo cases cases- the increases affect arre t one group of and not another They range raniro from two to the five cents an hour NOT UNANIMOUS It li le but just lust to say reads read the that some members or of the board favored a general In- In increase cren crease and that some opposed any an increases at all In dealing with rules the board boar boarIn In n the tre majority of ot Instances reat- reat firm d previous decisions decIsion It Is 1 b Moved llev v d that the payment of ot time and on halt tor for overtime wilt will re- re result result sult In a material reduction in the amount of or overtime work required It is estimated by M r W Hart chief statistician that If it overtime work v were ere required to the present et e- extent tent under the new rule rulo which Is rot not expected it would cost the companies a year The board held that overtime work In addition to the hour eight-hour day bY bythe b the thc classes of concerned In to the i Is largely In the employers control PUNITIVE E RATES nATES On the tho other hand the tho board a request for punitive rates for work on Sundays and holidays WilliamG it t cited a ruling Issued by William G McAdoo as ILS director general of railroads during federal control to the tho effect that such BUCh work was ax ex- ex expected expected petted by the tho public could not he o avoided and ond should not be paid for tor on a punitive basis bazle It added that the director general took steps to reduce Sunday work t ta to toa ta o a minimum fl th that t railroad manage memo as na a rule pursue the tha same somo course coure and that this board h has haa pressed expressed a like desire nn |