The result of the deliberations of the National Railway Wages Board on the application of the railway employees for an advance of £1 per week was made known on June 4th. Advances, ranging according to grade and district from 2s. to 7s. 6d. per week proportionately to their pre-war rates, were granted to men other than those in the locomotive and signalmen's grades, and, in addition to the 3s. per week already granted to the locomotive grades, drivers were to receive 7s., firemen 4s., and cleaners (over 18 years of age) 2s. per week. The Wages Board added that the claims by the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen in respect of holidays, rates for overtime, Sunday and night duty, and the exclusion of Sunday from the "guaranteed week" were considered not to have been established.
The effect of the award on the various grades is briefly indicated in the following lists:—
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The new rates became payable as from June 14th, and the new scales of pay became as follows:—
