the higher rates, will be issued at
once, probably tomorrow.
Union officials said they found
the order "fairly satisfactory," and
disavowed any though of appealing
from it to the courts.
"There
inly a  poin
Public Will Be Asked to Assume
Substantial Proportion of
Jumps to Offset Higher Costs
Awarding somewhat larger wage
Increases than were provided in the
agreement by which the last Puget
Sound ferry strike was settled in
June, Gov. Clarence D. Martin's
board of arbitration yesterday pub-:
lished its findings in Olympia.
The order, putting all ferry employes on a nine-hour day except
for engine room workers, who get
an eight-hour day, will increase the
operating costs of the Black Ball
system $178,000 a year over pre-
strike figures, and the board com-
transport
e a healthy, stable
being  asked  to  assume    substantial    increases    in
ferry rates."
Ferd J. Schaaf, director of public
service, who served on the arbitration board with Ralph J. Benjamin,
utilities supervisor, and W. D.
Lane, transportation supervisor, j
said a new schedule, setting forth
which needs clarification," said
one spokesman for the Masters,
Mates and Pilots and the Inland
Boatmen's Union. "For instance,
the provision, retroactive to June
26, that men are to be paid 75
cents an hour for repair work
when ships are docked, isn't quite
clear as to just what their duties
shall be. But we feel this can be
ironed out easily enough, and
even if it isn't we will accept the
Capt. Alex M. Peabody, president
of the Puget Sound Navigation
Company, was just leaving for San
Francisco and declined to commit
himself on the order, saying he had
not had a chance to read it. He
added, however, that no action
would be taken by the company in
any event until his return from
California a week hence.
Under the order, unlicensed employes of the deck, engine room
and steward's departments will get
$107.50 a month, instead of the
$105 provided for in the strike settlement. Before the strike, deck
and engine room workers got as
little as $85 a month, while steward's department wages were as
low as $45 a month,
Licensed deck officers were given
only the $15-a-month increase provided for in the strike settlement,
while pursers were denied any increase, the board pointing out that
they were not negotiaring for one
at the time of the strike.
Another paragraph in the order
directed that employes be given
ferry passes for themselves and
their families, but not for their automobiles.