The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-14
SOUTHERN RAILWAY co.
ITS REPLY To- TIE APPLICATION Oh
IFS TRAINMEN FOX MORE PAY.
Engineers, Firsmep, Coniuetors' baggage
Masters, BrakemeD, fiagmen ON 'he
Entire system Included.

The following statement OF the sou.neI.
Railway Company has been Sent 70 -, 80 .Ie.
locomotive eng conductor, Dab5o7S
master. fireman. brakeman and nashia y.
on the entire Southern railway Insults
botn Its Eastern and Western systems
Washington. d. c., Feb. 9, 1888.
To the Engineers, Firemen. ConuuSrG ,,.',
and lIainmen OF the southern "a 80 >
ana TO the Joint Committee oi
brotherhood or Locomotive h!srnynen
Brotherhood OF Locomotive ,re,'o'
Order OF Railway Conductors p'0'''e
hood of Railroad Trainmen:
In accordance with the unoeIsla sun iNitie
with your respective committees upon ~
cember 18TH, last, scAeduies OF P1' ~. an
rules and regulations governing an hliss
controlled by the southern Railway COM
pany have Deen prepared ana are Sven
herewith. IL.
You have been advised of the necessity
at this time for new rules anu SS4'er"Ie
as the OnIy satisfactory means vi re-
moving many Unequal tier OF pa! anu vi
service now existing IN cohSequ1HC VI
the previous separate control anu MAJ
dgement Of the several component pau
Of the system.
teHtion TO many important cOnSlutI dt.oils
bearing upon your request Tor a Ies. ~, a d
ton OF the rates OF pay III eHeSI P''Oi
to October. 1888.
ness and decrease IN revenue OF the ran
roads under tne.r charge, the ceiHets
of the Richmond and DanNHe aHN ol
the Fast tennessee Virginia ana peoi Z d
Companies round II necessary 10 rtu U.
the pay OF employees taxing euect IN &c
tober and November 1885, am eur udi >
lS9l:
The reductions were:
On the Richmond and DanNllie llheS.
per cent upon all receiving III res idl
service not less than so nor more lhdh
So per month. co.
10 per cent upon all receiving from $oI
10 S2o8.33 per month. -.
L. per cent. upon all receiving from
S2,lS.33 20 Sil6.Di per mo1th. ,..-
% per cent. upon all receiving over $ioo'
Der month.
ON the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Ines: -
per cent. upon all receiving Tess t'd"
30 per month. a.,
10 per cent. upon all receiving from $D
10 500 per month. .o.
Is per cent. upon ~ receiving over 500
per month. 40.
Between July 1st and September !. 1891.
the Southern Railway Company TOOK pos,
session OF the Richmond and DahNIile anu
East Tennessee. Virginia ana HeoIsld
properties. and Immediately made IuTtneF
reductions in the salaries OF genera ON
GERS and others varying from ~ per cent
10 - per cent, but made no chalsc III
the then existing rates OF pay OF your
selves or Of Otner employees icc-iN-ib
rates iUt SAINT do lllpot t'~N''''
OF less.
Some of the most important inequali rs
now requiring adjustment are caused Dy
the difference IN the reduction still IN
effect upon the lines Of the old Last Ten
nessee Virginia and Georgia anu tlt
Richmond and Dauville systems aheCuns
those employees whose rates OF pay We're
less than 80 per month,
Tl!s adjustment $ TO ne maze oE Cluai,
,zing the pay of employees on the east
Tennessee. Virginia and Georg a INES
with those on the Richmond and Dan
vile.
The schedules and rules IN effect prior
to the reductions as above c.ted were
formally adopted in 1880 and 1881.
Since then, marked and dlsas ,l,.I, y,
changes have occurred I'm The commercldl
and Industrial conditions throughout the
territory traversed by the Ines OF the
Southern Railway Company, resulting IN
greatly reduced revenues, as VIII appear
from the following:
STATEMENT OF GROSS AND NET
EARNINGS OF ALL LINES nov
CONFUSING THE SOUTHERN RAIL
WAY SYSTEM lS9l-lS