The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-01

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cents for the third year. The facts are
| as follows: Detroit motormen and con-
ductors receive twenty-five cents an
hour for the first six months; as cents
| an hour for the next year, and after
eighteen months in service they re-
| cefve 80 cents hour. This company
operates a part of Its system, giving
| eight tickets for a quarter from 5
o'clock in the morning until o'clock
at night. and after that hour Ax for
lquarter. Over their entire system they
give workingmen's tickets, good in the
morning and evening, eight for rs
cents.
In Cleveland. Ohio, the company now
pay 27 cents hour for the first year.
and thereafter 80 cents an hour while
on your system 1T takes five years to
reach 80 cents, and the Cleveland COM
pany carry their passengers and give \
universal transfer for three-cent
fare.
| Vancouver. B. c.. the first months,
% cents per hour; second 3 months, 25
cents per hour; second months, 81
cents; second year, 20 cents; third
year, 81 cents; thereafter. 35 cents. On
interurban lines, sc II cents.
Mt. Clemens Rapid Railway. First
six months % cents per hour: next
year. rs cents an hour after eighteen
months in service 80 cents per hour.
Oakland. Cal. first year. 80 cents per
hour; second year, 81 cents; one cent
an hour up to ten years. when they
ceive 40 cents an hour.
Wheaton. ILL.,, third rail. First
year, 26 cents; second year. 20 cents;
third year and thereafter. s2 cents.
| Sacramento. Cal. First year. 30
cents per hour; second year. 30 cents;
third year. 81 cents: fourth year. SO
cents.
Salt Lake City. Utah. First year. 2s
cents; thereafter 81 cents.
Butte. Mont First year. 3S Ia
cents; second. third and fourth years.
AN cents: thereafter, As cents an
hour.
Helena Mont. Ffrt year. 80 cents:
second year. 81 cents: third year. 80
cents; fourth year. 33 cents; fifth year
"a cents; thereafter 35 cents per hour.
And there still number of other
cities. of which we have not space to
: enter, with a higher rate than that
paid by your company.
II Now, for your information, we will
hereby give you some of the wages
prevailing in the different trades and
callins in the city of Chicago:
: Cement F1nishers. 62h cents an
hour. $500 for an s-hour day, time and
one half for Saturday afternoons and
all overtime.
Drain layers. SO IA cents an hour.
$3.50 day. double time for Saturday
afternoons and all overtime.
/. Drain layers helpers 44h cents an
" hour, s33O for an s-hour day. double
. time for Saturday afternoons and all
overtime.
Hod carriers and building laborers,
40 to 57Ia cents per hour, time and
: one-half for Saturday afternoons and
| all overtime.
, Painters. 60 cents an hour. Double
: time for Saturday afternoons and all
overtime.
Stone derrick men and Triggers. SO
:. | cents an hour. time and one-half for
: Saturday afternoons and all overtime
Pile drivers. Sc cents an hour, $5.2S
for an s-hour day and time and one
!. half for Saturday afternoons and all
: overtime.
Sheet metal workers. eLh cents an
hour, SIS a day for s-hour day, dou-
BILE pay for Saturday afternoons and
: | all overtime.
> Asbestos workers ozM cents an
I hour. SIS for an s-hour day and double
= pay for Saturday afternoons and
, Boiler workers receive the same as
. | asbestos workers.
Carpenters, IS cents an hour, $500
!. for an S-hour day and double time for
Saturday afternoons and all overtime.
, Structural iron workers. SIS cents an
= hour, $5.44 a day, with double time for
:, Saturday afternoons and all overtime.
Electrical workers. 10 cents an hour,
= s6 day for an s-hour day and double
;, time for Saturday afternoons and all
overtime.
The overtime for all these trades
means over the s-hour workday.
And we could go through all
. the classes of labor in Chicago and
: prove to you that the demands we are
: making are not exorbitant or unreas-
= enable. and nowhere near the prevail
> ing wage OF this community. II the
, electrician, whose work we are fami :
. liar with and come in contact with
. every day, would work ITO days in tho
year, he would earn more in that time
than would the motorman at % cents
!. an hour. working 365 days in the year.
We again reiterate our position that
: the wage we demanding that
which Is necessary to maintain the
standard of living that prevails in this
!, community.
Now In view of the above facts we
:, feel that we are justified in reitera tin g
= our demands. and do so by the adoption
q of the following resolutions, which our
committeme is instructed to carry out;
-! Resolved. That we, the members of
- Division PAL. in regular meeting assem-
- bled. do hereby reject the company S
! proposition and offer that we renew our
"a old contract at the old wage and work
,s ing conditions for another term. and
: we hereby instruct committee to
ia present this communication, with its
~ demands redemanding the wage that
= we formerly requested, and to insist
+ upon your company granting the same,
l., and further be 1t