. Railway mechanical engineer . 0 to 9, on to .1)1) -50,00 All advances suggested are effective January 1, 1918, andare retroactive. The back pay due on June 1 is estimated at$125,000,000. The Director General approved these recommendationswith certain changes in General Order No, 27 issued May 25, The most important of these changes from the mechanicaldepartment standpoint is one establishing a minimum rateof 55 cents an hour for machinists, boiler makers, black-smiths, and other mechanics who receive the same basis ofrates. Common labor is granted an
. Railway mechanical engineer . 0 to 9, on to .1)1) -50,00 All advances suggested are effective January 1, 1918, andare retroactive. The back pay due on June 1 is estimated at$125,000,000. The Director General approved these recommendationswith certain changes in General Order No, 27 issued May 25, The most important of these changes from the mechanicaldepartment standpoint is one establishing a minimum rateof 55 cents an hour for machinists, boiler makers, black-smiths, and other mechanics who receive the same basis ofrates. Common labor is granted an increase of 2j centsan hour in of the rate on December 31, 1917. Anothermarked deviation from the recommendations of the RailwayWage Commission is one wherein the basic eight-hour dayis established. This does not reduce the hours of employ-ment as at present worked, nor does it increase the total com-pensation fixed in the order for the number of hours nowworked in excess of eight hours, but it does establish the basic. Cofyright by UnJcrwooil cV Viulcri,o„l. The Successful Outcome of the War Depends No More Upon TheseMen Than Upon Railway Shop Men at Home eight-hour day upon further wage adjustment may bebased. The order of the Director General also creates anadvisory board of Railroad Wages and Conditions consistingof J, J, Dermody, F. F. Gaines, C. E. Lindsey, W. E. Morse,G, H. Sines, and A. O, Wharton, of which Mr, Sines wasappointed chairman. Sections C and I) of tlie Director Generals order deal re-spectively with hourly and piece work scales, principallyof the shop trades are reproduced in part herewith: While it is expected that the Board of Railroad Wagesand Working Conrjitions hereinafter created shall give con-sideration to all questions of inequality as between individ- RAILWAY MIXIIAXICAL ENGINEER 92, No. 6 ualj and ;c? of (.-mplowLs tlirouuliout. suffiticnt infor-mation is available to justify certain ; with re-spec
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