The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-07-30

principal requests made BY the EN-.
ployes are as follows:
Heavy increases in the rates of
pay OF engineers and tiremen I'm all
classes of service; that the number
OF hours after which overtime will
De paid in freight service be reduced
from 10 to hours and in passenger
service from 10 to hours; that
'hese higher rates of pay for these
shorter hours having been granted,
/ overtime be raised to basis of time
and a half in freight service and dou.
Die time in passenger service; that
engineers and firemen be paid an ar
bitrary 80 minutes preparatory time
1or each trip instead of computing
service continuously from actual
time OF reporting for duty; that still
other arbitrary allowances be made
for so called terminal delays which
IN reality include periods within the
time OF the employees regular service;
that those arbitrary allowances be
paid in addition to payment for the
miles or hours of the trip or hours
worked In yard service; the differen.
tials paid for running Mallet engines
be increased; that the diferentials
between local and through freight
service be increased and that two
hremen be employed on large coal
burning engines regardless of the
character or length of the run. the
tonnage handled or the work required
of the tiremen.
1t will be noted that these and the
various other requests made are cum
ulative; that 1t is their combined eff.
feet which would produce an increase
of over 80 per cent in the wages OF
these employees and that the request
for these enormous increases In pay
and in railway expenses are made
when transportation and commercial
conditions are such that the rail.
ways must find means of either reduc-
ing their expenses or obtaining in
creases in the passenger or freight
rates paid to them by the public.
Unfortunately, many of the issues
involved are so complicated and tech
nical that 1t is very hard to present
the facts in easily understandable
form. The following Is a summary
of the original requests of the EN-
ployes and of the reasons why they
were rejected. 1t should be repeat
ed here that in making their origin
al request the engineers and firemen
tacitly conceded that the existing ba-
sis for a days wage, namely, ten
hours work or the making of run
of 100 miles was equitable; and,
therefore, If, as is now requested s
hours or 100 miles were to be made
a days work in freight service, and
> hours or 100 miles days work in
passenger service, all the following
estimates as to what complying with
the requests would cost would be very
much too low:
/. With but few exceptions, over
time in train service has always been |
paid pro rata, on the basis of ten /
miles per hour. The employees re-
quest that overtime be put on the
basis OF double time in passenger SER
vice and time and one.half in all 9th
err service. The Managers Commit
tee refused this because conditions
in railway train service are entirely |
different from those in other lines OF
industry, one of the main differences |
being that in train service wages are
generally on a mileage basis, and
a days work when they have worked |
many employees are regularly paid for |
much less than ten hours. The grant.
ing of this request would cost the !
western railways 100000 year.
2. The employees request increases
in the rates Of pay for running all
classes of engines, and increases in
the differentials for running Mallet
engines. These requests were de-
clined because since the last settle
ments were made in 1910 there have
been no changes in condition of SER
vice or engineers or firemen or in
commercial conditions which would
warrant general increases in their
wages. The employees request that
men running pusher and other en-
Eines in unclassified service be paid
the same rates as If they were run
ming in through freight service. This
was refused because the conditions
in these services are entirely differ
ent from those in through service and
vary from place to place, and, there