ALASKA RAILROAD GRANTS WAGE RAISE
Wage raises ranging from 30 to 50 cents an hour for 275 Alaska
Railroad operating personnel are announced.
The agreement, subject to final approval by Interior Secretary
Chapman and the Wage Stabilisation board, was signed by Col. J. P.
Johnson, general manager of the railroad, June 11.
Under the pact, yard service engineers and conductors are
granted 50 cents an hour; firemen and brakemen, 40 cents; road
service engineers and conductors, 35 cents; firemen and brakemen.
30 cents.
Settlement of operating scales brought to a close wage negotia
tions on the Alaska Railroad that were first opened in January.
An agreement was signed governing some 1,600 non-operating em
ployes last month.
Railroad officials said the larg
er increase for yard service em
ployes was in keeping with simi
* lar adjustments for trainmen on
Outside railroads. Higher wages
reflect higher living costs for Al
aska.
UNIONS SIGN
The pact was made between
the Alaska Railroad wage board
and the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Firemen and Enginemen and
the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen.
Besides Colonel Johnson, those
signing the agreement were Paul
* Shelmerdine, chairman of the
wage board; James De Cicco, gen
eral chairman of the firemen and
enginemen and Del Van Curler,
general chairman of the train
men’s brotherhood.
Officials said that part of the
wage boosts would be effective
as of January 8 with the balance
being paid from April 1. All yard
„ service employes were granted
36 cents an hour from January 8
and the remaining increase from
April 1.
Employes engaged in road serv
ice work will get 15 cents an hour
from January 8 with the balance
being paid from April 1.
Scales were set for other oper
ating personnel as follows: en
gine and terminal hostlers, 35
cents an hour; hostler helpers, 301
cents and engine and firemen
watchmen, 25 cents an hour.
Eighteen cents of these in
creases is dated from January 8
with the balance being effective
from April 1.
EFFECTIVE DATES
The effective date of the agree
ment with the non-operating
unions was February 1, it was
pointed out. The earlier date of
January 8 was possible as the re
sult of a committment by the
railroad management and the
settlement on Stateside lines.
The Alaska Railroad set Janu
ary 8 as the effective date when
negotiations were started, but
said the date would be contingent
on dates decided covering the
Northern Pacific railroad. Under
this procedure, the January 8
date was possible since the Out
side line agreed on October 1,
1950, for retroactive pay for op
erating unions, but set February
1, 1951, as the effective date for
non-operating workers.
An escalator clause was writ
ten into the agreement that
wage adjustments to correspond
would provide for automatic
with the Bureau of Labor statis
tics living index. The agreement
is subject to review each quarter
starting October 1, 1951.
Assisting with the negotiations
here was Mr. Ed Fitch, an interior
Alaska Dairy
Products Corp.
Anchorage, Alaska
Announces that Koslosky’s Grocery Depart
ment now is handling their milk
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Home Ceremony
For Eileen Madson
And Kenneth Hurd
In an evening home wedding in
Wasilla, June 12, Miss V. Eileen
Madson was married to Kenneth
Hurd.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ilmer Madson of
Bonners Ferry, Idaho. The bride
groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Hurd of Wasilla, well known
in Matanuska valley, where they
have lived since 1934. He is a
graduate of Palmer high school,
class of 1939.
Officiating at the marriage
ceremony in the Hurd home was
U. S. Commissioner Mrs. May
Carter.
The bride wore a street length
gown of blue satin with a corsage
of pink carnations. Her attend
department labor consultant,
from Washington, D. C.
ant, Merlie McCombs, wore yel
low with a corsage of gardenias.
Robt. McCombs was best man. At
the wedding reception Miss Juan
ita McKechnie presided at the
guestbook.
After a honeymoon in Seward,
the Hurds will be at home in Wa
silla. Hurd is a section foreman
with the Alaska Railroad.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wallace are
in the east on vacation and have
called on Delegate Bartlett. Wal
lace is an engineer with the Alas
ka Railroad at Anchorage.
M. L. Harker, Sr., attorney for
the Alaska Railroad, has been a
recent Washington, D. C., visitor
from Anchorage.
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