The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-02

seek in any way to injure the en-
pioying company
RULE XXI.
! when requested, the company shah
/ grant leave of absence and furnish free
/ transportation over its own lines to ma
/ chinists who may desire to go before the
encas.
/ 1t is the present practice of the COM
pany to grant leave of absence and to
+ furnish free transportation over its own
I lines to machinists who are duly auth
/ orized to confer with the management
4 with respect to differences that may
arise. 1t must be understood, however,
/ that no such committees can, or will be,
4 authorized to meet the management
until the management has signified its
/ readiness to meet it In January last
4 an il-advised committee insisted upon
a meeting. notwithstanding the fact
\ that the officers of the company We're
l at that time engaged in conferences
which had been continued from the
/ previous month The management will
1 not consider on appeal any cases, an
effort to settle which has not been made
with local officers in their proper order.
RULE XII.
! When vacancies occur in foremen or
/ gang boss positions. machinists in the
/ service of the company shall be given
! pre1erence-senlorlty, character and pro-
i fciency to govern-and shall receive not
4 less than cents per hour over the mini
mum rate Of pay paid to the machinists
/ apply to monthly rated men. Machinists
under the jurisdiction Of the several mas
/ ter mechanics shall be given prefer
! ence Of these vacancies in said jurisdic-
/ ton"
This company will not agree to fill
the positions of foremen, when vacan-
cies occur, by the promotion of any
particular class of men. Whenever we
have in our service men of recognized
! loyalty and ability, who have worked
for the company a sufficient length of
! time to merit promotion, it will be a
/ pleasure to advance their interests,
4 and our own, by placing them in such
/ positions. Loyalty, however, will be n
condition of first Importance. This
company viii not enter into any agree
ment providing for regulation of the
rates of pay of foremen.
RULE XIII.
ITO settle any differences that can not
/ be satisfa ctorily adjusted at the place Of
origin, the committee from the machin-
to and from the place of final settlement;
and any committee of machinists shall
I have assurance of an audience
The objections to rules and IL would
| in general apply to the proposed rule
/ IS. In fact, rule IL seems to be es-
| sentially the same as rule Is. No COM
mittee of machinists or other class of
employees can be assured of an audi
ence upon arrival at the general offices
| of the company, unless they come in
I accordance with a previous appoint
ed, as a matter of course
AS previously stated under remarks
pertaining to rule II, all grievances
must be settled locally as far as posi-
BILE.
RULE XIV.
1 t'Machinists or apprentices sent out on
1 the road to work or for attendance at
court in the cOmpany's interest, shall be
paid straight time while travelling to and
from the place designated, and shall be
paid shop rates while actually at work
! ten hours pay being guaranteed for each
! "A hours while away from home. If the
j travelling occupies the whole night and
! SlRenpr is nrOVidQd. time shall he al
i penses shall be Allowed not to exceed 81
\ per day, except where the necessary ac-
I master mechanic shall have authority to
] grant the necessary actual expense ex-
/ ceeding 81.
The above rule as drafted is in sub
stantial accordance with the present
4 practice of the company, which pro-
vides for the payment of machinists
4 and apprentices, upon the basis outlin-
4 ed, for services rendered as described.
4 OF course the provisions of this clause
/ would not apply to men who are per-
| manently transferred from one division
or shop to another who will not be
paid for time used in travelling to the
new place of employment.
RULE XIV.
THE minimum scale of wages paid per
! hour 20 machinists by the company shall
4 be as follows: From Chicago to and in
I Newton to Albuquerque. 81 cents; Albu-
\ querque, San Bernardino, Los Angeles
and Bakersfield, SO cents; Gallup, Wins
I low, Seligman, Needles, Barstow, 10
/ cents; Port Richmond. Fresno, 36la cents;
/ and all points on the Gulf line, So cents"
On the Gulf Line.
The schedule rates in Rule Is are
| practically the same as the company
is now paying first class machinists.
i The company cannot and Will not
agree to pay this rate of wages to
specialists who are not thorough all
around machinists, nor will it agree
lists. whose services may prove more
! valuable, rates higher than those men
toned. This company has no inten-
ton of making any immediate change
! in the rates of compensation of its
men. At the conference on March %,
as will appear by reference to the
record (pages IL, II and IS, clauses
numbered 2S), it was shown that not
/ wages in Texas to a point higher than
was then paid by other roads; not
! only has it advanced the wages paid
west of Albuquerque to a scale high er
petitor in that territory; not only did
I it voluntarily increase the rates of
compensation in the district east. of
/ Albuquerque, but in this last named
/ district, especially in Colorado and
New Mexico, its rates are in excess of
those paid on neighboring lines, and
1 five cents per hour more than the ma
/ chinists of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
company are advised by the officers of
your organization to accept. / have
since received little more definite in
formation regarding this matter, and
/ it seems worth while to refterate the
| general statement made during the
! conference of March %. The present
1 rates paid by the Santa Fe system are
set forth under proposed Rule IS
The rates paid by the Union Pacific
are as follows:
4 Rate paid machinists Omaha to Kansas
| City. Csc Corresponding to rates east Of
Newton on this road, "a cents)