Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-08-29
R. R. FIREMEN
ASK WAGE RAISE
Roads Also Required by Demands
to Provide New Locomotive
Equipment.
WOULD COST s2oo,ooo,ooo.
Overtime Rates Fixed by 800 Brother.
hood Observation-Disclosures Stok- y
ers and Coal Passers included
in Demands.

Cleveland-A 50 to 63 per cent. IN
crease in wages is demanded for III
600 fremen and >hostIers on railroad
In the United Statets AMI Canada In
wage scale adopted before adjourn
ment by 300 general cllairmen Of TIL
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemel
and Enginemen.
Another demand to be presented t.
the director general of railroads L
that all coal burning locomotives II
road service weighing 100000 pound
and more shall be equipped with me
chanical stOkers and that two tlremel
shall be employed on all such locomo
tives until they are so equipped.
About half of the $4,000 engines il
the United States will come under thi:
proposal, only about 5000 of which ar
equipped with mechanical stOkers a
present. 4
In addition demand Is made tina
all coal burning locomotives of les:
than that weight shall be equippef
Hith mechanical coal passers and tina
all coal burning locomotives shall h.
equipped with power CRATE shaker:
and automatic fire door openers.
1t is estimated 1t would cost 5000,
100000 to equip locomotives in TIT
United States with the devices de
manded.
The more important sections of tn
report Of the wage committee us adopt
| ed follow:
Rates Of pay for firemen and help
ers in passenger service, $3.50 da!
of 100 miles or less, except when Nal
let engines are used, when $7.2O shall
be paid. ...
Overtime in passenger. service vii
be computed on !he present basis a
a speed of 20 miles IN hour.
Firemen in freight service on en-
gines weighing less than 200,O0'
pounds. $63l II, day: on engines
weighing over 100000 pounds, $3.50 {
day of 100 miles or less; overtime IL
be computed on basis Of speed o.
twelve and half miles IN hour.
Firpmen and helpers employed II
| local or way freight service, mixef
trains, mine runs and other service
minimum pay Of 80 cents for eacl
100 miles or less, in addition to tie
through freight rates.
)Firemen employed on helper, push
err, transfer work, wreck, construction
SNOW plow, circus, milk and all ,otie'
trains in unclassifed service to bt
paid through freight rates, according
to class of engine used.
Firemen employed OH Mallet engines
in all service, except yard service
ST. 20 Il day for 100 miles or less.
Firemen and helpers employed IL
yard service, $3.50 day of eight hour:
or less, except when Mallet engines arr
used, when rate of $3.50 shall be paid
Time and one-half for overtime il
all Glasses Of service, which will ap
ply when men are used on Sundays OF
holidays.
INSIDE hostlers, $3.50 Il day; outside
ho,t!rrs, $40 lay and hoStlers
helpers, Sc 80 any, eight hours O
less to constitute days work. Time
and one-half for all time work in ex
cess of eight hours.
Another workin" condition DEMAND
eG is that on railroads where tiremel
are required to clean locomotives the.
sl.a:: hr relieved of such work aE'
| THAI .i.pine:l shall he relieved of r.
moy.ug tools or supplies, loading Goa
filling lubricatorS, etc.
"rhe tiremCn Oh locomotives han
ding the prcpondclance OF traffic vii
receive under our proposition Il wag
increase Of about 50 per cent, sal
Tnmo;hy Shea. acting president OF tn
| brotherhood. ~
"If our full demands are granted
will hardly restore .pre-war conditions
considering The present purchaslh
power of the dollar. Since. l9l3 tn
wages of tiremen have been increase
approximately 80 per cent, and 1t
d matter Of record that the cost of L,
ing during that time has increased ~
per cent. The wage increases to fire
men since 1917 have been entirel
wiped out by the Increased cost of liz
ing.
Observation-Disclosures Of America
railroad tircmen and hostlers for in
creased wages and changed workin
! conditions, as outlined in :! wage seal
adopted at Cleveland by the genera
chairmen of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen ard Enginemc., prof
ably will be considered along with tn
demands of other railroad workers
rlilr0ad administration officials said.
CROPS GOOD IN EUROPE.