The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-10-30
Ask for Higher
Wages.

Committees of engineers and firemen
on all Southern Pacific lines west of Ell
Paso and Ogden are now IL San Fran
cisco. The Examiner says they have
submitted increased schedules of wages
to the company and await an answer.
Thev ask for more pay on two grounds.
One is the general increased cost of liv
ing. The other is the harder work due
to heavier locomotives and trains Ii
Messrs. Small, Agler and Kruttschnitt
cannot see their way clear to grant the
increased pay, the committees will sub
init the entire proposition to the head
officials of the engineers and firemen III
the East.
The Southern Pacific engineers and
fremen are acting in unison with simi
lar classes of employees on the roads
west of Chicago. They all want better
pay for the reasons mentioned. and are
being directed in this matter by Grand
Master p vi Arthur of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and the OFF
GERS of the fifemen brotherhood.
Freight Engineers on the Southern
Pacific receive from S4 80 to 81 20 per
100 miles, an engine of ninety-five. tons
being taken as the standard For loco
m otlyes in excess Of ninety i've tons, they
want ID per cent increase of the So per
100 miles. The company objects to any
standard locomotive weight regulating
pay. 1t even objects to maximum OF
50 per 100 miles for any weight Of loco
motive, on the ground that it now pays
better wages than any road west of Chi
cago.
The committee OF freight engineers
states that the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers is committed to the prop.
osition OF establishing on the roads west
of Chicago uniform rate OF s. per 100
miles. an engine of ninety-fiye tons being
the standard weight.
Southern Pacific passenger engineers
now receive minimum of SO 80 for 100
miles. The pay ranges up to So rs and
81. Under the proposed schedule they
want Si 80 per 100 miles, an engine of
ninety tons being considered the stand
ard. On locomotives in excess OF that
weight, the passenger engineers want an
incrense of Is per cent.
Both freight and passenger engineers
are acting under instructions from Grand
Master p M. Arthur.
Freight and passenger train firemen
now receive between 81 and S3 for 100
miles. They want increased pay in pro.
portion to that OF the engineers. Their
case hinges on that of the engineers.
They recognize this fact and are follow
ing the lead of the engineers committee.
The return of General Manager Julius
Kruttschnitt from New York makes the
engineers and firemen's committees be-
lieye that they will soon get an answer
one way or the other from the Southern
Pacific. They are inclined to think
Kruttschnitt win pass on the demands
to President g. IL. Hartman. They viii
not object to such an arrangement in
view OF the fact that the engineers and
firemen Of the Union Pacific aud other
Hartman roads are making similar de-
mands.
In case Hartman refuses to deal with |
the committees, they will step aside and
Grand Master Arthur and the executive
committee of the engineers aud officials
of the fremens brotherhood, viii deal |
with him.
So far as can be ascertained the |
Southern Pacific freight and passenger
and bralsemen and the train |
mems brotherhood have not sent any
committees to San Francisco TO ask for
more pay. But the officials of the road
will not be surprised t. see all Of them.
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