The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-03-05
Tile Agreement Reached.


The Agreement Reached.
The board of the local lodge of Brother
meeting with the Rio Grande Western
people, and as a result the following docu-
ment has been agreed to:
Articles of agreement and schedule of
wages between the Rio Grande Western
Railway company and the locomotive fire
men employed thereon.
Article l. Section 1-Firemen in passen-
ger service shall be paid at the following
rates: Standard gauge engines, $3.50 per
day; narrow gauge engines, 40 per day !;
100 miles or less to constitute days pay.
AL over 100 miles pro rata
Section 2-firemen in freight service
shall be paid 66L per cent. of engineers
wages on standard gauge consolidation en-
gineS, and s.. so per day on set-out engines
in road service. On narrow gauge engines,
60 per cent. of engineers wages; 100 miles
or less to constitute days pay.
Section 3-Firemen in switching shall be
paid s2.25 per day Twelve hours work..
Road fremen in temporary switching ser
vice shall be paid s.. 40 per day
Section delays and over time, as also
mileage on grades of 200 feet and over,
shall be compensated on the basis of en-
gineers' agreement dated March 2, 1891.
Section 5-Firemen on helper engine
shall be paid 664 per cent. of engineers
pay, time and overtime to be computed
on same basis as allowed engineers in this
service. -
Section Con assigned and short runs
hremen will be compensated on the same
basis as the engineers, as also in work train
service, tiremen shall be paid their engine
class rates, hours of duty to be on the
hnei L..
ment dated March 2, 1891.
Section I'm case fireman report for
duty and his services are not required, he
shall receive one-half his regular days pay
and stand first out on freight runs.
Section S-Firemen firing passenger or
special trains with freight engines, shall
be allowed freight rates, and for firing
passenger engines on freight trains, they
shall be paid freight rates.
Article 2-lf at any time there should be
surplus Of firemen, the elder men shall
have preference in order Of their term of
service, provided their services have been
satisfactory to the company.
Article 3-When firemen are dead-head
ing over any section of the road under
orders OF their master mechanic, they shall
be allowed one-half passenger rates
Article 4.-Firemen required to attend
court as witnesses or for similar services
regular daily wages, and reasonable hotel
expenses when called away from home
Article Sin all cases the oldest fireman
In line OF service shall have preference to
all runs. where his services have been
equally satisfactory.
Article 6.-Firemen that have been pro-
NOTED to engineers shall have preference
TO regular engines over men hired since
their promotion.
Article Z. Section 1-Hosrlers shall be
made from the Oldest firemen in the SER
vice, under condition of article 5.
Section 2-Hostlers shall be paid s2.75
per Gay, twelve hours to constitute a davis
work. Holsters doing switching shall be
paid switching engineers wages.
Article 6-The company will furnish a
man to clean all fiues, fire and ash pans at
terminal points, but firemen will keep their
front ends and stacks well painted, and
their engines in good order.
Article 9.-Firemen shall be called for
duty at division stations one hour
or as much sooner as necessary
Tor getting meals, etc., before leaving
time, and the caller shall be provided with
a book showing the names of the crew
and for what train required, in which book
the fireman must sign his name and enter
the time called.
Article 10-When fireman has been in
service sufficiently long to require rest. he
shall give timely notice to the roundhouse
foreman of the fact. Ffremen to be Judges
Of their own condition.
Article l1-When engines are shopned
for general repairs. firemen of such en-
glnes shall be given work on other engines
when practicable.
Article 12-No fireman shall be reouired
TO pay for loss or breakage of tools or
other property of the company that is
liable to happen on any well managed rail
way.
Article l9-Al errors in keeping or com.
putting time and mileage of firemtn shall
be corrected, and the amount paid them the
following month.
Article 13115-Supplies will be put on all
engines that arrive at district terminals
where regular roundhouse force is EN-
ployed after o'clock pm. or depart he
fore o'clock am
Article l4-When fireman is DISCHARGED
or leaves the service of the company he
shall be furnished by the master mechanic
with letter stating cause of his discharge
or leaving, and the length of time he has
been in the company's employ
Article 141s.-No fireman shall be sus
penoed or discharged without just and suf-
hclent cause, and in case fireman believes
his suspension or discharge to have been
unjust, he shall make written statement
OF the facts In the premises and submit il
TO bis master mechanic, and at the same
time designate any two other firemen who
may be in the employ of the company at
the time, and the master mechanic. to-
gcther with the two firemen last referred
to shall, in conjunction with the superin
tendent or his proxy, investigate the case
in question, without unnecessary DELAY
and give prompt decision, and in casa the
aforesaid suspension or discharge is de-
cided to have been unjust he shall be re-
instated and paid full time for all time Lost
on such account.
Article l5-The proper officials of the
company shall at all times listen to any
grievance that the fremen as body repre-
sented by the committee or individually
may wish to make. The fact of the fire.
men presenting grievance shall in no
manner prejudice their standing with any
official of the company.
This agreement to take effect from the
End day of March, 1891, and if any change
is desired in the same by either party
sixty days notice shall be givvn in writing
The Rio GRANDE WESTERN
RAILWAY Co.,
BY. A E. Welby, Supt.
BROTHERHOOD OF LoCoMo-
TIVE F'IREMRN.
A. Z. Koontz.
Silas Clark, jr., Sec'y,
James Littlejohu.