Show RAISE FOR R R CLERKS ASKED CHICAGO July Wage Wago Wago In- In Increases increases In Increases creases amounting to annually and anti affecting clerical and station ben Ice pm- pm Pm on more than halt half the ri tion's 11 l tion's railroads was as as being request requested ed by E r H w Fitzgerald Itzgerald ot of the Brotherhood of ot and ond Steamship CI Clerks Handers Station and Express l em- em em at a hearing before the United States railroad labor board t today The Increase asked naked for ran mores es estrom from 9 to 17 cents an hour for tor the es on the sixty nine rail rall- railroads rail railroads roads Involved In In the dispute If It these wage sage rates are aro tab r-tab- c tab by the board It will wilt restore the tho compensation ot of o the he granted the men in 1920 by de- de de decision clLon cion two of the board This e ewas was known as the war time sage age award and added to the salary of oC railroad workers wo-kers reductions In sal sal- sala sal salaries a aries arias rles of ot the clerical and en Ice r reduced their wages to below the wage age age rate In effect prior to decision number 2 seconding to Mr F Itzgerald lIe He HeBald said Bald that the railroads would be beable beable beable able to pay tho the wage boost asked because of ot the large volume of business during the last year and that the were entitled to share In the Increased and profit profit- profitable abia abl able earnings The chairman of the clerks or- or or organization's locals started the In- In Introduction introduction in introduction of testimony living costs and other conditions affecting the men In then theu r tive tiye respective territories It i Is expect expected d that the lil conclude their case tomorrow which the eastern stern we-stern and I andI roads representatives Willi will present their Bide ot of the tho CrR case |