Show thanksgiving PRESENT goodre fi iron mountain road restores waxes of ot 1893 st louis NOT nov 26 afif fifteen teen thousand employed emp loyes ot the missouri cacille iron Moun mountain taia railway system where salaries were cut from five to twenty per cent in 1893 owing to prevalent hard times have been made glad by a proclamation issued by president george gould restoring wages to their present basis the men whose salaries were cut included officials office men engineers J conductors trainmen telegraph operators station agents and machinists their salaries ranee range from 50 per month to a year u about employed emp loyes live or have bad quarters in st louie louis five hundred clerks aro are employed in n the auditors office and in ia the general offices cep the rema remainder indor of the are in the yards and freight depots president goulds thanksgiving present to bis his men will be all the more appreciated prec precia lutea ted because unexpected the missouri pacific system including the iron mountain gives employment to men the monthly pay roll averages the cut which ie is now restored was effective june 1 1893 until further farther notice salaries of employed emp loyes making from 50 to M a month were reduced 5 between 75 and a month the re reduction ju no wan wati 5 percent per cent ten per cent was reduced from salaries between aloo acif including those of the highest officials of the road it was eaid said when the cat cut was made that it was the intent to reduce the salary account 10 per cent this made an average monthly saving of or annually the cut was in effect three years and five months on a basis balie of 10 per cent the management is eaid said to have bare saved through its retrenchment policy the earnings of the system have been inc increasing steadily atea dily fore for everal months a ful force is wording working overtime in every department and the management believes the revenue will justify the restoration of reduced salaries the advance dates from Nov november emberl 1 |