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ceived last December 31. A minimum of 55 cents an hour is established 

 for the shop trades, including machinists, boilermakers and black- 

 smiths, and women are to receive the same pay as men for the same 

 work, and negroes are to get the same as white men for similar employ- 

 ment. Men wo'rking on the monthly, daily, hourly, piece work and train 

 mile basis will benefit by the new allowances, and members of the four 

 leading railroad brotherhoods whose pay was raised through operation 

 of the Adamson act are to receive from 10 to 40 per cent additional, a 

 smaller increase than they had asked of the railroads shortly before 

 the government took control. The percentages of wage increases range 

 from 43 per cent for men who received $16 a month in December, 1915, 

 down to small rates for those receiving just under $250, and no more 

 pay is allowed men who made $250 a month or more in 1915. The 

 additions run up to $34. With exception of office and messenger boys 

 under 18, who are given smaller increases, all employes who received 

 less than $46 a month are given a flat increase of $20, with the provi- 

 sion that laborers paid by the day shall get a minimum of 2J^ cents 

 an hour above the rate of six months ago." 



''WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. Nearly 1,000,000 railroad employes, in- 

 cluding clerks, track laborers and maintenance of way men, are to re- 

 ceive wage increases of $25 a month, the equivalent of $1 a day or 12 

 cents an hour, over the pay they received last January 1, under a wage 

 order issued by Director General McAdoo. Advances are effective as 

 of September 1. This order, affecting half the railroad men in the 

 United States and adding approximately $150,000,000 to the annual 

 pay roll in calculations 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 employes affected, it supplants provisions of that 

 order." 



''WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Railroad station agents today were granted 

 by Director General McAdoo a general wage increase of $25 a month 

 above the rate prevailing last January 1, with a minimum of $95 a 

 month. Eight hours is to be considered a day's work with pro rata 

 pay for two hours overtime and time and a half for service above ten 

 hours. The order affects about 2,500 station agents, who are not 

 telegraphers, and who consequently were not covered by the recent 

 wage increase for telegraphers." 



