Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1918 — Increase for 500 Carmen. [ARTICLE]

Increase for 500 Carmen.

Terre Haute, Feb. B.—An industrial controversy involving nearly five hundred carmen employed by the Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern railroad has been settled, according to a report from the department of labor at Washington, D. ,C. The settlement gives the employees an average Increase of five cents an hour and provides for the paying of back wages due on the new scale from December 1, 1917. The back pay amounts to about $14,000. The controversy was settled by Mark F. Crawford, a government mediator, who was sent to Terre Haute by Secretary Wilson of the department of labor. The new scale affects not only the car repair men but the roundhouse employees, laborers, supply men and in spectors as well. These men are employees in the railroad shops at Terre Haute, Bedford, Latta, West Clinton and Faithorn.