Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1918 — $52.50 PER DAY FOR STEEL MEN BY NEW SCALE [ARTICLE]

$52.50 PER DAY FOR STEEL MEN BY NEW SCALE

The United States Steel corporation, whose plants in South Chicago, ■Gary, Hammond, Joliet and other part sos the Chicago district employ about 4(1,000 persons, Saturday announced that instead of the eight hour work day promised by the corporation to begin Oct. 1, there will be a continuance of the present twelve hour day with extra pay for the added-four hours. It means the workmen will be paid on the eight hour basis, with time and a half for the overtime. The pay roll increase in the Chicago district will be about $900,000 monthly. ■ Unskilled laborers, who now get $4.80 for working twelve hours, will get $5.60. A few years ago they received $1.50 a day. The highest class of skilled labor, rail straighteners, who now receive S3O for working twelve hours, will receive $52.50 for a day’s work.