Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — INCREASE FOR RAILWAY MEN [ARTICLE]

INCREASE FOR RAILWAY MEN

Trainmen Granted Raise Aggregating $65,000,000 a Year. Washington, April 11. —Wage increases to the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, aggregating S6.",O<K 1,00(1 a year, it was learned here, are to be announced bv the railroad administration within a day or two. This increase will bring wage advances under government administration of tire railroads to an aggregate of $910,000,000, while tire railroad companies in 1916 and 1917 raised wages by $350,000,000, making a total Increase in three years of $1,260,000,000.