The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-30

beginning next Wednesday, August
1, new scale of wages will go into
effect on the Erie and Wyoming Val.
ley railroad. 1t was promulgated on
saturday, after a number of confer
ences between President George Il.
Smith, General Manager G.. T. Slade
and superintendent ]. NJ. Davies, and
committees representing the employees
in the various branches of the SER
vice.
The schedule is based on the mileage
system now in effect on most of the
roads and recently adopted by the
Lackawanna. Ten hours is made to
constitute a days work instead of
twelve as heretofore, and a run of
hundred miles generally speaking to
be calculated as the equivalent of
ten hours work, in the freight SER
vice.
Passenger engineers running over 55
miles are guaranteed 1895 a day, and
for every mile over 105 miles they will
be allowed extra compensation at the
rate of s3.S5 per hundred miles.
Freight pushers and helper engines
will receive $500 per day; coal mine,
yard and work train, per day, $3.50;
Scranton, Dunmore or Avoca to Haw-
ley and return, 100 miles allowed; for
an additional trip between these points
actual mileage will be allowed; Avoca
to Winners and return. two trips If
made in five hours and thirty min
utes or less, fifty miles allowed; Scran-
ton or Dunmore to Winners and re-
turn, two trips if made in five hours
and thirty-one minutes or more, or
three trips in less than ten hours, 100
miles allowed; Hawley to Winners
and return, fifty miles allowed.
THE FREIGHT SERVICE.
In the freight service, 35 cents an
hour will be allowed for overtime.
One hundred miles or ten hours will
| constitute a days work on the road.
and twelve hours in coal mine yard
and work train service.
Actual mileage will be allowed for
doubling hills, but none for necessary
| switching in the making up or putting
away trains. The usual allowances
are made for men marked on the board
and not sent out, a quarter day if
called and a half day IL they make
any mileage. On drill engines a full
day will be allowed for more than
six hours and thirty minutes.
Passenger firemen are guaranteed 81
per day when they run over SO miles
and allowed extra time at the rate of
| S1.90 per 100 miles for each mile over
| 105. For So miles they are allowed 81
In the freight service and on helpers
and pushers they get 2 1-20 cents pei
mile. Drill engine fire men get 81 per
day. In other respects the rules gov
erning the firemen are similar to those
governing the engineers.
| The schedule for the train service
allows passenger conductors $95 pei
month; baggagemen, $780, brakemen
S55; freight conductors, 2& cents per
mile; fagmen cents; brakemen 1 9-1C
cents; drill conductors, $40 per day;
| flagmen, 81; brakemen, s1.90.
TEN HOURS WORK.
| One hundred miles or ten hours will
constitute a days work. Actual mile
age will be allowed when overtime
work exceeds ten miles an hour
| Twelve hours to constitute a days
work for drill and worktrain crews
| Work train overtime will be allowed
as follows: Conductors. 81 cents per
hour; flagmen, 20 cents; brakemen, Is
| cents.
Freight conductors or brakemen
| handling regular passenger trains will
| be paid passenger train rates, and for
handling special trains or empty pas
senger train equipment they will be
| paid freight train rates
| No promoted man shall rank as a
| conductor or engineer or be considered
one until he has served actually as
such for thirty days, and he will then
be dated and ranked thirty days prior
to the date on which he completes his
| thirty days actual service,