Perth Amboy Evening News

INCREASE OF $25 PER MONTH
FOR MANY RAILROAD EMPLOYES

By Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5:—Nearly a
million railroad employes, including
all clerks, track laborers and maintenance of way men, are to receive
wage increases of $25.00 a month, the
equivalent to $1 a day or twelve cents
an hour, over the pay they received
last January 1, by a wage order issued today by Director General McAdoo. Advances are effective on
September 1.

This order, affecting half the railroad men in the United States and
adding approximately $150,000,000 to
the annual payroll in circulation of
labor representatives, represents the
second largest aggregate wage increase ever granted in American industrial history. It is supplementary
to the general railroad wage order
issued nearly four months ago providing for about $300,000,000 increases, and for the classes of the
employes affected it supplants provisions of that order.

Most of the employes covered by
the new order have made considerably less than $100 a month.

The order specified that eight
hours is to be considered the basic
day, but overtime up to ten hours is
to be paid pro rata, with one and
one-half the regular rate for overtime past the ten hours. Specific
rules are laid down for the promotion
of employes on grounds of merit and
seniority. Other regulations forbidding dismissal of employes without
cause and providing of hearing on
appeal resemble the rules now in effect under government civil service.
These restrictions will affect mainly
the half million railroad clerks.

Thousands of women clerks employed by the railroads are to receive
the same pay as men for similar
work but the interpretation of "similar work" is left to executives.