The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-09-15
LACKAWANNA
SCHEDULE
Satisfactory Adjustment Of
Wages by Officials and Men.

Means Increased Pay for Employees
Difficulties in Geographical LO-
cation OvercOme-Men Say They
Were Granted Quite as Much as
They Asked and More Than Ex-
pected-Both Officials and EN-
pIoyes are Pleased With the
| Result.
The new schedule on the Lacka-
wanna system has been signed by
General Superintendent Russell, rep
resentatives of the engineers, con-
ductors, train and yard men.
The basis upon which the schedule
has been built is the theory that
each man affected by it should be
given the opportunity of earning as
much money as possible. Whether he
earns it or not each man is guaran-
teed a, days wages and that under
the provisions of the schedule.
A DAYS WORK.
All employees included in the
schedule will be paid by mileage and
100 miles will be regarded as q day
work. In order, therefore, to see how
the system would work it is interest
ing to note that under section of
article l in case of a local way
freight train, where the run is less
than 100 miles, the crew will be al
lowed a mileage of 100 miles. Thus
in case of a train which runs but
sixty miles in one day the crew will
be credited with 100 miles or 10 hours
work.
In effect, this means that mileage
of 100 miles a day is guaranteed,
which in case of the conductor of a
freight train, would be equivalent to
SO. 10 per day, being at the rate of three
and ten -hundredths cents per mile.
The schedule will however, operate
IN another way in favor of the men.
Taking the case of a freight train
running to Port Morris from Scran-
ton, the illustration is very practical
one. The distance is 100 miles.
Presuming that the train was detain-
ed by reason of a snow storm or for
some other cause and twelve hours
were occupied the crew would re-
ceive credit for two hours extra pay
or twenty miles, at the rate of ten
! miles per hour. On the other hand if
the run was effected in eight hours
the crew would receive full pay for
100 miles and additional pay for the
distance they would cover in the re-
naming two hours.
MORE WORK, MORE PAY.
This explains the object of the sys-
tenn. The more distance covered the
higher the pay. A little figuring will
show that this will be for the benefit
of the crews. In case a freight
train reaches Port Morris ON time, or
within the ten hours, the conductor
would receive So. 10 for that run
Should he be successful in running
the train within eight hours, he
would receive the same money and
would have the opportunity of earning
sixty three cents extra during the re-
manning two hours.
GRADUATED PAY.
Much discussion was caused by the
scale showing the graduated pay to
conductors, trainmen and baggage
men. AS will be seen below all the
passenger train service conductors, for
example, will receive four and fifteen
hundreths cents per mile for the first
two thousand miles and two and
ninety three hundreths cents per mile
up to four thousand miles. This of
course, does not mean in one run, but
to be reckoned in the total of the
months run.
The object Of the graduated scale is
to give the man with the. short run
the opportunity of earning a good
salary as we'll as the conductor who
has the longest run.
One conductor in one day probably
covers as many miles as another does
in three days, so that by the end of the
month his pay would be entirely out
of proportion. The conductor, there
for, whose train in the passenger SER
vice runs less than 5000 miles in q
month, will receive two and ninety
three -hundreths cents per mile, while
the conductor in the same service
whose train runs over 5000 miles in
one month will receive but one and
eighty -hundreths cents per mile. This
is a system of equalization which the
men cordially approved
BIOGRAPHICAL DIFFICULTIES.
One of the chief difficulties encoun-
tered in the conference between the
officials and the committees was that
Of the varying character of the coun-
try through which the road passes.
From Binghamton to Buffalo fast time
can be made and big mileage gained
while travelling would necessarily be
slow climbing the Pennsylvania hills.
The comnanv however, is Maid the