The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-27
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.
That New Schedule for Union
Pacific Employees.
THE THREATENED CUT.
STATEMENTS CONCERNING THE
NATTER ARE NOT OFFICIAL.
Route of the c. b. q cit Will
Strike the Northern Pacific at or
Near HuntIey-Ties for the Rio
Grande Southern-Notes.

For a long time there has been a
rumor that the officials of the Union
Pacific were figuring on a schedule for
a reduction of the wages of employees.
The Laramie Boomerang recently men
toned the fact that it was reported
cut would be made about the first of
February. A denial soon afterwards
came from Omaha and very little has
been heard of the matter until yester-
day two copies of a proposed schedule
were received in Laramie. Although
an effort was made to keep the matter
quiet, it was soon circulated among
the employees.
I There is a mystery concerning the
manner in which the schedules reached
Laramie. The story is that they were
secured in Omaha" picked up on the
quiet and mailed here. There is SuS-
picion among the men that it was sent
out as a. ''feeler,' and that the officials
at Omaha know more about 1t than
many would be led to believe. They
are supposed to have been sent here
because it affects the men on the fifth
and sixth districts particularly, and
this was supposed to be the proper
place to spring the cut.
The two copies sent here covered the
pay Of the trainmen and the engineers,
the principal cut being on the latter
class. The copies of the schedules
could not be obtained today to secure
the details regarding the cut. The
copies received are not signed and are
thus not official and the inference can
only be drawn that this is the schedule
which it is proposed to put into effect.
This schedule takes one mile off the
trainmen between Laramie and Raw
Inns, allowing them 1856 miles instead
of 1877. Their overtime is also cut
down one and a half hours. Now, if
they are more than twelve hours in
allowed overtime for all the extra
time If the new schedule is put into
effect they will have to be out thirteen
and half hours before they get any
extra time. The swings of the sixth
district are also cut down. The Medi-
cine Bow swing is cut down from $50
to AS. The Hanna swing from 200 to
1874 miles. Brakemen receiving SIS
now would probably make only $65,
and conductors receiving 500 would
get but $95.
On the fifth district over the hill
trainmen have been getting eighty-five
miles for going to Cheyenne. Accord
| ing to the schedule they will get 100
miles, but when they double back the
!
The engineers on the sixth have been
getting $50 miles to Rawlins, and the
new schedule will cut them down to
1856. Engineers who were paid for
their day when someone was run
around them that is, someone else
sent out when it was their tcrn to GO
will no longer get this, and it is thought
that great opportunity will be given
by the new schedule for favoritism.
The distinctions between the different
classes of engines is also affected, and
altogether. it is said it will cut the
pay of engineers SIS per month.
Railroad men will say nothing about
the schedule. They are anxious first
to find out the intentions of the com;
pany officials. Some of the men viii
not believe that the officials intend tc
put any such schedule into practice
Others suspect that this is the schedule
! that the officers presented to Judge
| Dundy recently at Omaha and regard
ing which it is rumoTed that he would
not consent to having it put in force
The wording of this schedule is said tc
be ambiguous in many places anc
leaves opportunities for disagreements
on Interpretation.
The reason the men on the mountain
division have been allowed the extra
miles was that it gave them little
extra compensation to pay for the diff
ference in cost of living here. Now they
are to be brought down on d level will
: the Nebraska division. The opinion
seems to be that the men will not stand
a cut and that if the company insisi
upon it there will be trouble.