The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-20
RAILROADS GRANTED
RAISE TO OTHERS, TOO
Besides Those Who Had Presented De-
mands on Montpelier g. Wells River
and Barre Railroads for an
Increase of Wages.

mdnuS on hOHtptll0I o. WellS RiFel
and Barre Railroads for an
Increase of Wages.
Settlement Of the labor demands on
the Montpelier q Wells River and the
Barre railroads was reached at the con.
ference at Montpelier which was con
cluded Saturday evening, by which lib
eral concessions are made to the men in
the way of increased wagep., 1t is un-
derstood that the engineers and shop
men were not making demands upon the
company at this time and were not rep
resented in the conferences with the ma
tional labor union officers, but the COM
pany has, nevertheless, made read
justment of the wages of the engineers
and the shopmen upon its own motion,
and engineers and shopmen will, there
fore, receive considerable increase Of
pay as result Of the company's un.
solicited concessiops,
Vice President G. II. Snes Of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. who
has been in this vicinity some time
working for better terms for the EN-
ployes, gives the following statement
of the negotiations:
Following a meeting between Presi-
dent Byrnes and the officials OF the
three organizations interested namely,
conductors, trainmen and iircmen, which
took place in Boston Wednesday last,
negotiations were entered into Friday
between General Manager Stanyan and
Superintendent Of Motive Power Whal-
en- for the company and Vice President
I. A. Gregg Vice President q. II. Sines
and Vice President p. j Mcnamara for
the three organizations, respectively,
representing the eInployes Of the road.
THESE negotiations were concluded
late Saturday evening at a meeting at
which President Byrnes and Vice Presi-
dent Folsom were present in addition
to the above named officials.
"As a result Of these negotiations a
contract was drawn up embracing nu-
merous rules covering working conditions
which will immeasurably improve the
working conditions Of the employees in
addition to these rhles the following in
creases in pay Were granted to the
men.
Suburban train conductors 81, brake
men 50 cents and iremen so cents per
day
"All other train service conductors
80 cents, brakemen 25 cents and bag
gagemaster 35 cents per day.
Local train iirenien 40 cents. mixed
train 81 cents, passenger train 81 cents,
yard firemen 40 cents per day.
Barre I'LL conductors 80 cents and
brakemen rs cents per day.
"The percentage increases in train
service run from Is 90 per cent to 40
per cent. for conductors, II per cent. to
Is per cent. for brakemen and from
II per cent. to a per cent. for fire.
men.
I'm yard service: Conductors per
cent. to l6 per cent, brakemen 90 per
cent. to 33 | 3 per cent and tiremen %
per cent. Firemen doing shop work 53
l-3 per cent
AT the present time overtime is paid
in no. case until after the men have
been on duty II hours and g minutes
Under the terms Of this, their first con-
tract, effective November 20, overtime
will be paid after 10 hours with the
exception Of two runs upon which the
rate of daily pay is fixed to cover the
hours of service.
"T'his 10 hour day feature of the con-
tract means that when overtime is
earned the above percentage increases
will be advanced by about 10 per cent.
"While the increases above noted were
not quite all the men desired, they are
fairly well satisfied with the outcome
believing it better to make some saeri-
fee than to inconvenience the general
public and cause some money loss to
the company as well as possible suffer-
ing to themselves and their families
which would have nessarily followed had
they gone on strike.
cat the conclusion Of the conferences
President Byrnes announced to the
brotherhood officials that he had decided
since settling with them to increase the
pay of the shop employees and he would
also call in the engineers and increase
their pay
"The negotiations were conducted in
an extremely harmonious manner the
several officials participating showing a
disposition and desire to deal with the
men as generously as possible eosider-
ing the limited resources Of the road
and the recently announced reductions
Of passenger fares.
"The officers Of the three brother
hoods desire to take this opportunity Of
thanking the press for its impartial pres.
entation Of the facts to the public and
also fof the courteous treatment received
from those of the public with whom
they have come in contact