The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-26
Raise in Pay On the
Old New England.
UNIFORM WAGES.
The New Schedule Went
in Effect Yesterday.

The local employees of the old New
England railroad are the happiest
mortals in existence today. The reason
of their jubilant feelings is because of
a raise in wages which went into effect
yesterday. The raise in wages affects
four local train crews of the New Eng
land, and every one of the men have
received an increase in wages. The
passenger conductors received a raise
of from 1926 per day to s.. 80 and IS. rs
per day. The train baggage masters,
passenger brakemen. freight conduct
ors, freight fagmen and brakemen all
have an increase OF from ten cents to
so cents per day.
General superintendent c. Peter
Clark has caused to be posted in the
conductors quarters at the Union sta
ton the following notice, which ex-
plains itself. The notice reads as fol-
lows:
Office of general superintendent of N.
Y, n. H & H r. r.
Boston, Mass, March %, 80.
General bulletin notice No. l, series of
1899
TO all whom it may concern:-On and
after Saturday, March 25 1899, the daily
pay Of road trainmen will be uniform
upon all the rail lines of the company,
as follows:
Passenger conductors, class A, $ST5
Passenger conductors, class b, $3.50,
Glass to be determined by the nature
and extent of run.
Train baggage masters, $2.10
Passenger brakemen, 200
Freight conductors. 500
Freight train flagmen, 210
Freight train brakemen, 200
No time will be allowed except for
services performed.
By order of general manager,
c. Peter Clark,
General superintendent.
Ever since the Consolidated took unto
itself the old New England road the pay
OF the trainmen and conductors has
remained stationary especially the lat
ters wages, remaining about 40 cents
per day less than that received on other
branches of the road. The men have
waited long and patiently to be placed
upon an equal footing with the other
employees of the Consolidated In the
matter of compensation Many have
grown FESTIVE in consequence Of the
ipAls NbIlNllltGu uISCE1u1lildIlOH anu are
correspondingly happy because of the
increase.
All of the employees Of the Consoli-
dated do not share the eIatiou of the
New England employees, as the bag
gage masters of the other divisions
have received a cut of lie cents per day
in order to make the wages uniform.
The conductors are at sea regarding
the two classes a and r, and until they
have been placed in one or the other
classes they will continue to guess how
much of an increase they will receive
The two classes will be determined b.
the nature and extent of the run. Under
the new schedule class A conductors
receive 1915 per day and class $3.50
per day. Before, the conductors on the
New England received $325 Freight
conductors who received $2.75, now gel
So per day. Train baggage masters now
receive 500 per day, an increase of &c
cents; passenger brakemen get 50. OC
per day over S1S0 previous: freight
fiagmen receive 1910 over $3.50, and
freight train brakemen now get 81. an
increase over $1.90 old rate Of wages.
The divisions of the New England
branch of the Consolidated which are
affected by the raise are the Norwich
and Worcester, the lines from Provi-
dence to Hartford, Vernon to Rockville
Hartford to Rockville Providence to
Boston and the Southbridge branch
from East Thompson to Southbridge.