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Exhibit "A" .Item ,1. The applicant is engaged In supplying water f&r residences and certain industries, and for U.S. Housing Projects at Las Vegas, Nevada, and the operation of a rooming house for railroad employees. Item 2. The increases herein applied for are to conform with the Washington agreement of January 17, 1944, with respect to railroad employees subject to the Railway Labor Act so that part of the increases herein applied for will be retro­active to February 1, 1943, and part retroactive to December 27, 1943, in conformity with the Washington agreement above referred to. Item 3 . The Las Vegas Land and Water Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, whose lines of railroad are operated by the Union Pacific Railroad Company under lease. It is proposed to grant to the employees of this wholly-owned subsidiary, whose basis of pay has been comparable with railroad employees, the same rate of increase as was allowed to railroad employees under the Washington agreement of January 17, 1944. Item 4 . As Indicated in Item 3 above, the employees of this applicant, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, have been paid rates of pay comparable with rates paid to railroad employees in the territory. Railroad employees were granted increases in pay retroactive to February 1, 1943, and December 27, 1943, under the provisions of the Washington agreement of January 17, 1944. It is proposed to apply to the employees of this applicant, be­l ow listed, the same rates of increase as were authorized for