1958 - Railroad Payday Change Opposed By N&W, Others

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Roanoke Times - February 25, 1958

Railroad Payday Change Opposed By N&W, Others

RICHMOND, Feb. 24 - Spokesmen for the Norfolk and Western and other
railroads in Virginia spoke out today against paying employes more
frequently than twice a month.
Sydney F. Small, Roanoke, vice president of the N&W, said
railroads would be faced with higher operating costs if they had to
write checks for thousands of employes every week.
The N&W official made his views known to the Senate General Laws
Committee which has before it a bill which Small and other railroad
officials said to them seems meaningless.
Its sponsor, Sen. Stuart E. Hallett of Norfolk, said he introduced
the bill at the request of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. He said
the union felt that present law handicapped them in trying to get
their members paid by the week.
The bill does not require the railroads to pay weekly.
Small said it appears to him the Hallett bill only changes works
which, in effect, are meaningless. But, Small said, the railroads
oppose anything that would imply that they should change their twice
a month paydays.

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- Ron Davis, Roger Link







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