Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1920 — EXPRESS COMPANY EMPLOYES HEAR FINE NEWS [ARTICLE]

EXPRESS COMPANY EMPLOYES HEAR FINE NEWS

Chicago, Aug. 9.—Eighty thousand employees of the American Railway Express company will be awarded increased wages in a decision to be handed down at 8:80 o’clock tomorrow morning by the United States Railway labor board, which has heard their claims. All employes of the express company, with the exception of 2,500 shopmen who were benefitted by the 13 cent increase granted July 20 in the $600,000,000 award to the 2,000,000 railway workers will be affected by tomorrow’s decision. The award is the second to be made by । the railway labor board, which was created by the Esch-Cummins transportation act. The express increase, it was learned tonight is to be on a flat baste to all classes of express employes, including messengers, clerks, drivers, chauffeurs, stablemen and oth- ' ers. While it was indicated that 'the award will not be all the men 'asked, it was stated on reliable authority that the amount would exceed that granted to the majority of the railroad workers. The beard maintains that the express employes, as a class, were not so well paid as the average railroad man.