Overhaul by Richard Flint & Shirley Cushing Flint

Author:Richard Flint & Shirley Cushing Flint [Flint, Richard & Flint, Shirley Cushing]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780826362506
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

([issue #] 3) The decision of the United States railroad labor board to again cut wages of the employees 56 cents per day on all mechanics, helpers and apprentices, except freight carmen, whom it is proposed to cut 72 cents per day.

. . . The third proposition, upon the wage question, is the straw that broke the camel’s back, and when our friends really understand what is contemplated in the latest decision of the board, we feel sure we will have your unqualified sympathy and support. . . . In December, 1917, this class of mechanics received $5 for a day’s work; under the new proposed scale of pay they would get $5.60, or twelve percent more than they received in 1917, instead of 29% more, as stated by the railroad and public members of the labor board. Why this misrepresentation, if they wished to be fair? Why also did they not cut supervisory forces in proportion, if they wanted to be fair?

. . . The proposed reduction, being the same for helpers and apprentices, will affect these classes of employees proportionately greater.

. . . We feel that this decision is a miscarriage of justice; that that portion of the transportation act requiring that consideration must be given [to] “the relation between wages and the cost of living” was disregarded; and we have therefore exercised our precious American privilege of withdrawing our services from the railroad company.18

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