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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1943

Steel Firm's Boatment Get 44-Cent Hike

Increase Covers 12-Hour Day For 325 Workers

A pay increase of 44 cents per day of 12 hours has been granted by the Regional War Labor Board at Philadelphia to river boatmen employed by the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, principally on the Pittsburgh district rivers, it was announced last night.

The pay boosts are retroactive to February 15 for those workers who are members of Local 25, AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots, and Local 30, CIO National Maritime Union employed on the company's boats. 

Labor members dissented from the action on the wage issue, supporting instead the original request of the unions for a general increase of 5.5 cents an hour.

325 Get Pay Boost
The RWLB also approved, for the approximately 325 workers affected, a maintenance of membership clause with the regular 15-day escape provision, open-end contracts and the check-off of union dues.

Industry members dissented as a group on the maintenance of membership issue, with one industry member, W.H. Doran of Reading, PA, dissenting also on the check-off and open-end contract provisions.

A request for preferential hiring, made by the unions, was unanimously rejected by the RWLB.  The major issue involved in the...


Chinese Flier Aids Fund Drive

Lee Ya-Ching
Miss Lee Ya-Ching, one of China's first women fliers, who is now living in this country, spoke last night in behalf of the United War Fund campaign at a Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation dinner in the Pittsburgh Athletic Association.  She trained to fly in her own country, and received her pilot's license in 1933.  She has given up aviation for the duration.