Arizona republican., 1918-08-01
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The fact that brakemen on the Ari- zona Eastern are getting more money than Arizona Eastern passenger engin- eers has caused considerable talk in Phoenix and comments on our mil lionaire brakemen' have been ire quently heard, with the result that the matter was called to the attention of The Republican and an explanation made by railroad men.
 The railroaders have presented their case to Director General McAdoo with a view to obtaining an equalization of pay, it being apparent that when the government took over the railroads there was some misunderstanding in figuring out the schedules.
 The railroad men yesterday produced | figures showing where the Arizona Eastern freight firemen are getting more than firemen on the main line but that the other members of the craft-engineers, brakemen and so forth-are paid below the schedules on the main line, and that working condi- tions are below those of any other western railroad.
 The United States Railroad adminis- tration in it's general order No. 21 in one paragraph, says:
 No problem so vast and intricate as that of doing justice to the 100000 railroad employees of the country can
 be regarded as completely settled and disposed of by any one decision or or der; therefore. the board of railroad wages and working conditions is here by established and will take up as pre-
 Sented any phases of the general prob
 lem relating to any class of employees
 or any part of a class of employees
 which may justly call for further con-
 sideration.'
 With this clearly in mind. the rail-
 road men say they have asked for an
 equalization of pay for the Arizona
 Eastern from Director General McAdoo
 believing that the case once presented
 will lead to immediate and satisfactory
 adjustment.
 They say that while the brakemer
 are getting more than the passenger
 engineers. the term millionaire brake
 men" is very much out of order and
 unjust both to the brakemen them
 selves and others of the railroad craft ! They presented official figures as fol- lows:
 Freight engineers on the Arizona
 Eastern under the new government
 rate get s57S for eight hours work
 freight firemen $40 for eight hours
 work; freight engineers. old schedule
 that is, before the government raised l wages, 5 for eight hours work, freigh
 firemen, s3.50 for eight hours. Passen- } ger engineers get s4 for eight hour. work and passenger firemen $322 fol eight hours, as against s2.50 for eigh , hours under the old schedule. Whei , the new government wage schedules became effective, it was found tha passenger engineers on the Arizon; , Eastern were not raised at all, the pa' remaining at $4 a day of eight hours
 This was ten cents a day below tn lowest engineers wage shown oI schedules presented to the government the ralroaders pointed out yesterda, l by consulting their tables of schedule } for all railroads.
 3 The figures show that freight fire men are better paid on the Arizon ] Eastern than on the main line fo l straight-away runs per 100 miles. Tn ' Arizona Eastern train crew figure
 arc: Brakemen. for local service, 541
 and 55A cents an hour; conductors. 10 cal service, 64& and 65% cents an houl These figures are compared to tn main line schedules. as follows: brake ? men, Il cents an hour and conductor
 S2 cents an hour for local service an 1 through freight brakemen s421 per 10 miles, or at the rate of 121a miles a hour or eight hours per 100 miles. Tn s mainline works on a day monthl basis while the Arizona Eastern has day monthly basis and no mileag o basis.
 s The Arizona Eastern railroaders i f seeking an equalization through Direc : tor General McAdoo pointed out tha 6 the Santa Fe. Prescott X Phoenix. tn V other road operating into Phoenix. re ceived with the government advanC V wages in proportion to all other rail road in the country. while the Arizon
 Eastern did not. The Santa F'e line in to Phoenix has for brakemen both locs 7 and throuei1 freight a wage rate ( ,' s5.15 for eight hours work, the Arizon o Eastern men pointing out to the direc . tor general that the Santa F'e line in, II Phoenix operates with short trains an a small engines while the Arizona East
 ern operates with long trains and larg
 engines.