The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-08
TROLLEYMEH confer
With MR.. PUNDERFORD
PRESENT REQUEST TO GENERAL
MANAGER FOR INCREASE
OF WAGEs.

Ask for a Raise to Twenty-fve Gents
an Hour Regular Work and Fifty
Cents an Hour for Overtime, the LAT
ter Double the Present Price-xo
Prospect That the Demand VIII be
Granted--TFOlIey Company CInims II
Pays BEST Prices Of Any Road IN the
state Now--Has speEt 100000 in
Past Year for Improyement
Hundred Thousand More to be spent
This Year.
An important conference was held
yesterday afternoon lasting about two
hours between a committee of the New
Haven TrolIeyman's union and General
Manager ]. K. Punderford of the Con-
solidated Railway company. President
Burke of the Trolleymen's union was
spokesman, and remarks were made By
others Of the COMMITTEES. The COMMITTEES
in response to a vote Of the Trolley
mems union presented request for an
increase Of wages from Fl 1-2 cents an
hour and rs cents an hour overtime to
a level rate Of Is cents an hour and
so cents an hour overtime. It was re-
ported previous to the conference that
the trolleymen would ask for an in
crease as regards overtime of 10 cents
an hour, or for IS cents an hour IN all
for overtime, but the application is for
90 cents an hour for overtime, which
was a surprise to many of the trolley
men themselves, some of whom charac-
terized the request as "fat proposal
tion.' So the application as 1t stands
is for 25 cents an hour regular pay and
80 cents an hour overtime. This was the
only question before the conference.
1t had been stated that the question of
the discharge Of certain employees would
form one of the questions for debate,
and that other matters would be pre-
sented, but this was not SO, the sole
question being that Of wages.
Manager Punderford, it is learned.
expressed surprise at the demand Of
fifty cents an hour for overtime, par
tieularly as no trolley road in the
United States pays anything like 50
cents an hour for overtime, and, as n.
was learned last evening, the. rate Of
wages paid by the Consolidated is the.
highest paid by any trolley road in f6e
state. The present rate paid by the
Consolidated is 81 cents an hour regli-
| lar, and 25 cents an hour for overtime
and snow plough work. It was also
learned that the Connecticut Light and
Power Co.'S rate Of wages is I9 cents
an hour for the first year, 20 cents for
the second year and 81 cents for the
third year, and thereafter.
1t is learned that Manager Punder-
ford on receiving the committees APP
plication stated to them that the de-
mand' was excessive, and that when
the company granted an increase Of
wages a year ago It was not anticipat-
ed that a request for increase of
wages would be an annual proceedings
He stated to the committee that d com
plant made early In the summer that.
There were not men enough for the
work had been quickly responded to as
soon as suitable men could be broken
in, and that the company increased its
| list of extras to a greater extent than
ever before in the roads history. And
on holidays and Sundays luncheon was
furnished the men at the cost Of this
| company.
"A statement to the committee was
also made as regards the big outlays
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