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Show II! j Packing Houses ' Grant Increases I to Their Employes (i J CHCACO. pee. 1 Employes, of pack- aaaa! in- "v.. rirma Wcr granted IncreaajM r In WKg s ajrgrecvttinK $12 000,000 a year in I .-. i rl n'.i.i. ) !' ' '-''! ' f'j Alschuler, trbitYfttDiv today. One hun- . fi , , ,. .i ,p.i i -. . 1 . ' ' ' : ... I . rs 'i '! " Ivans. 1 'I,. . i I Inoeln, Forth Worth, St. rvi:. III1 Kn . S Louis. :iinl S.ou City (U ' if ', i )j ihf award, which la letroactivo ' from September 1. 101?. Thr men asked II I to liflvc the liKicn.so .Lite from Tuly H. I '' I f if j Unskilled workers which eompt-lae Kill ri.fi" ". p. t ni "i Hi- ' i.ipioycs ol gill the packing houses are Riven an m- E rifiM of 7 1-2 per cnt. winch, It Is said, III; TV-Ill amoul lo $1.50 a work. L'l Mi mbcra of mechanical trades are to III le ;r.mtei an in. ; "f '- ii while their hclpi i nu u Mowed i . i II oj S per cent. Men engaged In the K.ii-lng K.ii-lng and cutting ganes are given an ln- I crcH-ic of 3 cents on houi II I Thf demand of the men for a 44-ho ir wrric and double pay for overtime was Vi . denied At present the racn receive time EII' and a half for overtime and holida woik. Till Many other demands of tho workers Bi j v. denied by Judge Alschuler. Ilil Among them were: Denied a basic Hr'r eight hour day for private policemen an-1 Hf hmrn H'.j JVmcd demand of Kansas City team- Hji alters and chauffeurs for a basic eight ! lvnied demand to aboli.sh piece work In nj i tli.1 cur shops. Bfll The men won demand for t . Hj maximum ra.le of pay where hop kiflinc and cutting mnjr are combined for I periods where there is not sufficient work to keep both ganga engaged as separate units. In oommennhg on tht demanda of the men Judge Alschuler aaid: "While I believe that conditions are such that the 'employe! generally, and same oLjJicau more particularly, are en- j titletT to some further consideration, It I wems to me th.-u the demands as pr-Bepted pr-Bepted arc in the main so excessive that an arbitrator wotdd not be Justified in I granting tlv re, tiSQhfl en t llffienlty experienced even! under most favorable clrcumatanoea in : passinK1 upon wages ond working conditions, condi-tions, is much multiplied under existing ' conditions where extremes are so much the trouble. Extreme in public views land on economic questions, extremes in i profits and prices, extremes In wealth and in the ant of it. extremes In wa-tes and working conditions in some Instances In-stances the so-called 'economic power' of labor succeeding under seeming Impend- J I lng penalty of great public privation in enforcing wages and conditions apparently apparent-ly beypnd reason and In other Instances tho so-called "economic power' of capital suieeeding In imposing or retaining work ing conditions under which work should not be required to be done, and trages inadequate in these times for even their i subsistence. "With what great benefit to themselves and to all might those twin ; giants, lnboy and .capital, make practically prac-tically application of the aptly expressen Shakespearian truth: It is excellent o have a giant's strength, but It is tyrannous tyran-nous to use it like a gi:int ' " |