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Show GAMES PLAYED AS EXHIBITIONS WASHINGTON. Apr tl M Ware-,,' Increases averaging about a mon'h for approximately 60.00') employes of I Ihc American railway express com ! pan) were announced tonight b) I m reeotr General Dines. The Increase represent! an advance of ?2a a month above the -wage scale in effect Jan- i Gary , iftis. The net addition of this I order will be the remainder, or about ' 12.$Q per month. i Wages of lO.fiOu dining car employes were advanced above ihc basic! monthly minima in effect January 1. 1918d This will yield approximately $8 a month additional to each em-Iploye, em-Iploye, since two thirds of this ?25 I increase was taken up in the general v;icp advance last last. The.se minor wage orders for rail-raid rail-raid employe? who were included in Itho estimate of 567,300.000 in Increas- i es announced in connection with the wage order affecting the four train-1 men's and engincmen'.s bio' hcrhoods Several days ago. complete finally the1 "war cycle" of wage advances. Future! applications for higher pay will be I I considered in the light of peace time I conditions but will he dealt with by the 1 I same agency which threshed out ihe past wage questions. I The wage orders arc to become ef ! J fective at once. The express employe.- applied more than six months ago for more pay; and iu some localities threatened a : strike. Later they presented their case to the war labor board but with-drew with-drew i( when assurances were gnen by the director general that Ihe rail- I road administration's board of railway! wages and working conditions would take up their case About that time, the American railway express com pany was taken over for operation Uy the railroad administration |