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