Report of the Railroad Wage Commission to the Director General of Railroads, April 30, 1918 |
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... less than a determination of what policy or plan of wage adjustment will make for the permanent well - being of the State . We have searched for no such ultimate answer , if there can be one . But our investigation sought to reveal the ...
... less than a determination of what policy or plan of wage adjustment will make for the permanent well - being of the State . We have searched for no such ultimate answer , if there can be one . But our investigation sought to reveal the ...
Page 17
... from the railroads disposed of this belief . Fifty - one per cent of all employees during December 1917 received $ 75 per month or less . And eighty per cent received $ 100 per month or 17 REPORT OF THE RAILROAD WAGE COMMISSION.
... from the railroads disposed of this belief . Fifty - one per cent of all employees during December 1917 received $ 75 per month or less . And eighty per cent received $ 100 per month or 17 REPORT OF THE RAILROAD WAGE COMMISSION.
Page 18
... less than three per cent of all the employees ( excluding officials ) and these aggregate less than sixty thousand men out of a grand total of two million . ( See Appendix 111. ) - The greatest mumber of employees , on all the roads ...
... less than three per cent of all the employees ( excluding officials ) and these aggregate less than sixty thousand men out of a grand total of two million . ( See Appendix 111. ) - The greatest mumber of employees , on all the roads ...
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... less whatever his monthly wage as section man may have been advanced in the intervening two years . In the application of the scale the wage runs with the place . If in the past two years an employee has been promot- ed , his new wage ...
... less whatever his monthly wage as section man may have been advanced in the intervening two years . In the application of the scale the wage runs with the place . If in the past two years an employee has been promot- ed , his new wage ...
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... less favored of the railroad workers . The foundation for such a study may be found in the charts constituting Appendix VII . of this report . OVERTIME PAY Closely allied to the matter of hours of service is that of extra pay for ...
... less favored of the railroad workers . The foundation for such a study may be found in the charts constituting Appendix VII . of this report . OVERTIME PAY Closely allied to the matter of hours of service is that of extra pay for ...
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12 hours 26 day mo 30 day mo 9 hours APPENDIX applied April 30 Average Percentage Increase award back pay British railways CENTS PER HOUR Class 1 Railroads comes comes comes Commission's plan compensation cost of living creases day per mo day Workers December 1915 scheduled December 31 earnings employed entitled Erie Railroad Co FAMILY BUDGETS figures flagmen francs Government control Group Group Group Harry Covington hours 10 hours hours 12 hours of service Hours overtime Income Income Income Interstate Commerce Commission labor mileage rates Monthly Rate Named in Shown Northern Railway Old Hourly rates old rates operation paid pay in cents prices of food PULLMAN COMPANY Railroad Co Chicago Railroad Wage Commission railway employees rate New rate Rate of Pay rate per day retail prices Road passenger roads will substitute Southern Statistics table are explanatory TERRITORY U.S. Shipping Board unions wage increases WAGES WAGES Rates week
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Page 17 - There is high authority for saying that " to him that hath shall be given, but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 18 - These, it is to be noted, are not pre-war figures; they represent conditions after a year of war, and two years of rising prices. And each dollar now represents in its power to purchase a place in which to live, food to eat and clothing to wear, by but 71 cents as against tjje 100 cents of January 1, 1916.
Page 52 - There shall be paid to any person or body of persons whose railroad or plant may be taken possession of in pursuance of this section, out of moneys to be provided by Parliament, such full compensation for any loss or injury they may have sustained by the exercise of the powers of the Secretary of State under this section as may be agreed upon between the said Secretary of State and the said person or body of persons, or, in case of difference, may be settled by arbitration in manner provided by "...
Page 4 - make a general investigation of the compensation of persons in the railroad service, the relation of railroad wages to wages in other industries, the conditions respecting wages in different parts of the country, the special emergency respecting wages which exists at this time owing to war relation between different classes of railroad labor.
Page 18 - Even among the locomotive engineers commonly spoken of as highly paid, a preponderating number received less than $170 per month, and this compensation they have attained by the most compact and complete organization, handled with a full appreciation of all strategic values.
Page 4 - Railroads: Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the President of the United States in his proclamation of December 26, 1917, wherein it was stated that for purposes of accounting, possession, and control of the railroads shall date from 12 o'clock midnight on December 31, 1917, you are notified that, until otherwise directed, no changes in the present methods of accounting as prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Page 17 - It has been a somewhat popular impression that railroad employees were among the most highly paid workers, but figures gathered from the railroads dispose of this belief.
Page 34 - ... of the war. But with this we earnestly urge that a most exhaustive study be made of this matter of hours of service, not with a view to the adoption of some arbitrary and universal policy which shall have no regard to "the kind of work done, or to the effect upon the railroad service, but with these very considerations in mind. And we have gone into this matter far enough to justify to ourselves the belief that by the steady application of such sympathetic consideration the railroad service may...
Page 37 - ... shall be effective as of January 1, 1918, and are to be paid according to the time served to all who were then in the railroad service, or who have come into such service since and remained therein. A proper ratable amount shall also be paid to those who, for any reason since January 1, 1918, have been dismissed from the service, but shall not be paid to those who left it voluntarily.
Page 34 - Manifestly, therefore, at this time, wiien men must be constantly taken from the railroads, as from all other industries, to fill the growing needs of the nation's army, hours of labor cannot be shortened and thereby a greater number of men be required for railroad work. The nation cannot, in good faith, call upon the farmers and the miners to work as never before and press themselves to unusual tasks, and at the same time so shorten the hours of railroad men as to call from farm and mine additional...