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

ieduins from the main line TO the
yard and the time when they were
relieved from duty. For all of ,aese
Kinds of terminal delay overtime pro
rata is requested in addition to com
pensation for the road movement.
The Managers refused this because 1t
is part OF the regular work of en-
ginemen to take their engines from
the roundhouse to the depot or yards
and from the depot or yards to the
roundhouse, ut the beginning and end
Ing OF their runs. The Managers FRO.
posed to substitute the principle OF
paying men for their time or mileage
from the time that they re-
port for service until they are re-
lieved. The arbitrary allowances re-
quested by the employees for so called
terminal delays would add s2,475,0O0
a year to the pay rolls OF the IVES.
tern railways.
| Z. The employees request that en-.
gineers or fremen arriving at ter
minal or the end of a run be auto
matically released from duty, ana
that when they are used again q be
considered that they have begun an
other days work. The Managers
Committee rejected the principle hat
employees should be automatically re.
leased and paid days wage regard.
less OF how short the distance they
had run or how short the ume they
! had worked. This would mean that
although the basis of days wage IS
10 hours or 100 miles, allowances for
short runs or different kinds OF work
might be so pyramided that employees
would receive two, three, four or even
more days pay without having oitl.er
run 100 miles or been on duty 10
hours. Another request made is
that engineers and iiremen tied up
between their regular terminals he
paid for continuous service while
thus tied up. This was reje ted be-
cause 1t would require payment when
no service was performed and even
when men were tied UP under the
provisions of the 16 hour law and
could not be used without violation
of that law. The Managers Commit
tee proposed that when men we've lied
| hpt o1o O., I
ceve their full wages for 10 hoIrs
out of each "a hours that they were
tied up. The difference between the
employees request and the Managers
offer is that the employees ask for
pay for every hour they are tied up
The granting of these requests OF
the employees would add $1,290.G0 a
year to the expenses of Western Iail
ways.
s. 1t is requested that engineers
and firemen held at terminal other
than their home terminal, including
the rest period required under the
Federal 16 hour law be paid for "a
the time that they are so held after
the expiration of Is hours from the
time when they are relieved from pre-
vious duty. The chief unreasonable
ness of this request Is that 1t "ould
require the railways, after the expira
ton of 10 hours, to pay employees
/ their hourly rate for the entire -
hours of the day, when they were not
working, whereas, when they aatual
" are working they, of course, never
work "a hours day, and therefore
never earned "a hours pay. The Man
ayers offered to pay men, although
not working, when held at other thar
their home termina!-except in cases
of acts of God and casualties which
prevent the operation of trains
. days wage for the first 30 hours that
they were held tied up, and days
pay for each subsequent "a nour'
that they were tied up. To grant THU
. request of the employees would COS
the Western railways $1,100,oOO pei
snnum.
8. 1t is requested that engineer
and firemen being deadheaded o'
: company business be paid The SANE
as the engineers and fremen rnlllni
the train on which they are dead
headed. The Managers Committed
does not be ieve it is equitable to pa!
: engineers and fremen the SAM
wages for deadheading as 70" per
forming service. 1t proposed tina
employees being deadheaded on las
e sengcr trains be paid one hait th
r minimum rate and that when dead
:. heaL ng on other trains they be pa''
the guil minimum day. Acceptance 0
the employees proposal would cost III
= Western roads $4,000 a year
= 10. The employees made various lC