The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-05
DON'T FAVOR A POOL
Wabash and the Grand Trunk
Would Rather Remain Outside.
Meeting of Railway Presidents and Gen.
erai Manageable New Scale of
Wages Adopted by the MOnon.

President and general managers Of the
lines Of the Central Traffic Association were
IN session at Chicago yesterday, consider
ing existing decentralization in both passen-
ger and freight rates. The meeting did
not convene until late in the afternoon,
and as freight matters came up first the
passenger men did not have a chance to do
anything at all. The freight meeting did
very little more than the passenger men
for all that they were in session for about
three hours. A number Of unimportant
matters were referred to committees on
whose reports the general agents took no
action The whole meeting, in fact, as far
as the work Of the day is concerned.
amounted to nothing. There is a strong
feeling that neither the Wabash nor the
Grand Trunk is anxious for the formation
or the pool, believing that they can make
more money on the outside. If the lines
do not get together at the present meeting
IL is likely that the bars will be thrown
down for a general fight all along the line.
Reduction i'm Wages ON the Nonon.
The members of the grievance committees
OF engineers. iremen, conductors and train
men on the Louisville, New Albany & chi
cago have been in conference with General
Manager McDoel for a day or two in ref
erence to the opposed reduction in wages
20 take effect May Is. and the several
committees, the firemen excepted, have,
after hearing what Mr.. McDoel had to say,
consented to the reduction. The hremen
VIII take a vote and return an answer
May z. The new scale leaves the wages
OF engineers and fremen on passenger
: trains untouched, but prohibits men in this
service from asking for any payment for
overtime work. The fremen in the local
freight service are also untouched. but en-
gineers are reduced from $3.50 to "a a day.
F1remen on work and stone trains who
Were paid 8 a day and engineers who were
cents an hour, respectively. No overtime
can De computed in the local freight sery-
ice until after twelve hours of work. The
1S TO ~ cents an hour with the fremen-
IS liked at 20 cents by the new scale. while
cents OF c .ne englneers remains the same. IS
We're PAID 3 cents a mile. On local freights
NOSE working six days a week had As
service the rate varied from 81. so fo "a n
O. day. Overtime was figured on a dav Of
sieven hours work. for the six-day men
Gays. Through freight brakemen had 2
Gents a mile, the .six-day men $3.50 a day,
the four-day men 1913 and the men on work
ana stone trains from IS cents TO 81 a dav.
The baggagemen had from 81 to a25 a
GSy, depending upon conditions OF service.
me new scale gives conductors travelling
Tour thousand miles or less in a mont,
~; those making from 1900 to $500 miles
~; and those going more than $500 miles
Sl1O. The through freight service is left
untouched and the local freight condnctors
VIII get 80 a month and the hrakemen
oLSo Baggagemen are paid 50 per cent.
tors scale. Overtime on a basis Of 20 cents
an nour for conductors and % cents for
brakeman Is allowed in local freight after
ten. "'i