Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — RAILROADS INCREASE WAGES [ARTICLE]

RAILROADS INCREASE WAGES

Fifty Western Systems Grant Raise of 10 Per Cent In Wages. Chicago, Dec. 30.—Fifty western railroad systems presented 75,000 conductors and trainmen with New Year’s gift in the form of a 10 per cent wage Increase. The raise came at the end of a series of conferences between labor officials and railroad representatives on on the heels of Ihe 10 per cent granted the locomotive engineers the day before Christmas at a cost of $4,000,000 annually. A. B. G&rretson, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, and W. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, signed the agreement in behalf of the men, and a committee headed by A. W. Tenholm represented the general managers.