Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-08-09
NO STRIKE THIS TIME
The Trolleymen Agree on a
 Schedule of Wages.

The local trolleymens union held
 meeting at 2 o'clock this morning
 in Carpenters and Joiners' hall on
 South Main street and adopted a new
 schedule of prices which the com-
 pany had agreed to after confer.
 ence with National Organizer Rezin
 Orr and others. Mir Orr was present
 and read the new order as follows: First year. 20 cents an hour; sec.
 ond year, Fl cents an hour; third
 year, 22 cents an hour; fourth year
 22hc an hour; fifth year, 23 cents
 an hour; sixth year. "A cents an
 hour.
 The company also agrees to fur
 nish meals for men who are pressed
 into service without having time to
 have refreshments at their homes or
 boarding houses and also agrees not
 to call out men who have finished
 their regular runs. for special work
 unless they have received one hours
 notice. The proposition of the com.
 pany was adopted, but large mum.
 Der of the men are very much dis. satisfied with 1t. According to the old schedule first year men got twenty cents and a half an hour second year 21, third year 22, fourth
 year and after 22h cents and no ad.
 vance over the old schedule is made anywhere until the fifth year when
 half cent per hour is tackled on,
 In the sixth year the increase ia an advance of from twenty-two and a half cents an hour to twenty-fouI cents an hour. The men asked an increase which would give the six year help twenty-seyen cents an hour.
 The following order issued by General Manager Punderford waa also read:
 Tn no case will the above rates operate to'reduce the rate of men al present in the, service, but will affect all new employees and men passing from one yearly classification to an. other.
 Overtime and snow blow work te
 be paid for at the rate of five cenu above employees regular rates. Regular men who are ordered to report on the second half of their run later than their regular time will be allowed time from the time called for on their regular runs, but over. time will not begin until the timl called for by their regular runs has been worked.
 Regular men running into barn, or relief point. ordered to so al. rectly to another barn to take out car will be allowed time from the time at which they are ordered tc leave their regular barn, or relief point, and their time will stop when the car is run into the barn.
 Regular men, who have finished their run will not be ordered to re- port for work unless they receive a least one hours time.
 When men are held for orders oi on the car so as to prevent their go. ing to their regular boarding place for meals. the company will either furnish them lunch check or boz lunch.
 Regular men breaking in new men will be paid regular rates only, U. K. PUNDERFORD, E General Manager. "Approved:--
 CALVIN ToWNLEY, Vice-President." The order of the general manager states that their will be no reduc. tion in rates, which means, of course that first year men now in the em. ploy of the company will receive twenty and half cents an hour al usual, but the new men will have te work year for twenty cents. Tht aim of the company 1t would appear is to keep the price down until men have been five or six years at the business, so that while the plan ii very acceptable to the older hands Il is not altogether what new men want, although in general way it is regarded as an improvement on the old order which rendered it nee. essary for men to hang around good deal to see If they might be wanted, and besides 1t frequently happened that they were kept al their posts until they almost starved to death and then when they got chance to have a bite they had tc come down with their own dust while paving for regular meals ir