Reports of the Public Service Commission of the State of Missouri Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...of between 38c and 42c per hour for trainmen, with an additional allowance of 4c per hour for one-man car operators, are increased As modified by order of November 29, 1919. 8 Mo. P. S. C. to a wage scale, per hour, of 44c for the first six months of service; 46c for the second six months; 48c for the second year, 50c for the third year and thereafter, one-man car operators, 4e per hour extra; applicable also to motormen on work cars, together with increases of 3c per hour to the track department and laborers, 5e per hour to shop and barn mechanics; and monthly increases of $5 to janitors, watchmen and bus driver. 2 Arbitration: Employes' wages: Return: Operating expenses: Rates. It is necessary in arbitrating the question of employes' wages between the employees and a street railway to take the matter of rates into consideration. Robert A. Brown for St. Joseph Ry., L., H. & P. Co. Frank O'Shea for Almalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America. FINDINGS AND AWARD OF THE COMMISSION. BY THE COMMISSION: --The St. Joseph Railway Light, Heat and Power Company, and certain employes of said company, being unable to reach an agreement relative to the adjustment of wages, filed a stipulation, submitting their differences to this Commission for arbitration under the provisions of section 118 of the Public Service Commission law. Section 118 reads as follows: "Commission may act as arbitrators.--Whenever any public utility has a controversy with another public utility or person and all the parties to such controversy agree in writing to submit such controversy to the Commission as arbitrators, the Commission shall act as such arbitrators, and after due notice to all parties interested shall proceed to hear such controversy, and th...