Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-08-18
$4,000 RAILROAD
MEN DEMAND BIC
WAGE INCREASE
IN PAY ENVELOPES
Two Hundred Million Dollars
Must Be Expended to Make
Huge Engines More Com
Portable for Firemen,
$3.50 TO S7.20 DAILY
COMPENSATION ASKED
Firemen and Enginemen Who
Compose Brotherhood Want
More Men on Engines Until
Mechanical Devices Are In,
10Y MORNING ,ousn.1 SPECIAL LEASED wrsrl

toy MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIREl
Cleveland, o., Aug. IA 35 to 65
per cent increase in wages is demand
ed for III 900 firemen and hostlers on
railroads in the United States and
Canada in a wage scale adopted here
before adjournment today by 800 gem
eral chairmen of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,
in session here since Tuesday.
Another demand to be presented
to the director general of railroads Is
that all coal burning locomotives in
road service weighing 200, 900 pounds
and over shall be equipped with me-
chanical stokers and that two fire
| men shall be employed on all such To-
comotives until they so equipped,
About half of the $4,000 engines In
the United States will come under
this proposal.
The more important sections Of the
report follow:
Rates OF pay for firemen and help
! ers in passenger service $500 per
day of 100 miles or les. except whe1
Mallet engines are used, when $72Q
shall be paid.
Overtime In passenger service will
be computed on the present basis at
| a speed of 20 miles an hour,
Weight OF Engine Figures.
! In freight service on engines
weighing less than 100000 pounds
| firemen shall be paid $3.50 and on
engines weighing over 100000 pounds,
| $3.50 per day of 100 miles or less,
| overtime to be computed on present
basis at a speed OF l2k miles pen
hour.
Firemen and helpers employed in
local or way freight service, ;nixed
i trains, mine runs and other service
shall be paid a minimum of so cents
per hundred miles or less in addition
to the through freight rates
Firemen employed on helper,
pusher, transfer work wreck, con-
| struction, snow plow, circus, milk and
all other trains in unclassified service
shall be paid the through freight
rates according to class of engine
used.
| Firemen employed on Malet en-
gines in all service except yard serv-
ice. shall be paid $500 per day for
100 miles or less.
Firemen and helpers employed In
yard service shall be paid $3.50 per
dav of eight hours or less except
when Mallet engines are used, when
rate of $3.50 shall he paid
Overtime Computed.
i A demand for time and one ha1t
4 for overtime in all classes OF service
is made which will apply when men
are used Sundays or holidays.
Inside hostlers shalt be paid $3.50
! per dav and outside hostlers s7?O
per day, and hostlers' helpers s6,5A
!, lace n nn
,titute a days work. All time worl
in excess OF eight hours to be paid al
rete of time and one half.
A demand is made thal all coal
burning locomotives less than 100000
pounds in weight shall be equipped
with mechanical coal passers, a me-
chanical device operated by steam t.
keen the coal within the reach OF
f,remen ana that all coal burning To-
,comotives shall be equipped with
mower CRATE shakers and automatic
:, fire door openers
Il II is estimated that 1t will cost
5000 900. 900 to equip the locomotives
in the United States with the differ
ent mechanical devices demanded by
the firemen.
Uniform deadhead rules for pay for
firemen when travelling from one te"-
minal to work at another and to be
applied to all railroads in the country
and Canada are demanded.
Another working condition demand
cd is that on railroads where firemen
are required to clean locomotives they
shall be relieved of such work and
that firemen shall be relieved OF re-
moving tools or supplies, loading coal
filling libricators, etc.
"The firemen on locomotives han
!, ding the preponderance of traffic VIII
receive under our proposition wage
increase of about so per cent" said
, Timothy Shea, acting president of the
brotherhood. :.
/, "If our full demands are granted II
I will hardly restore pre-war conditions
considering the present purchasing
: power of the dollar"
: A copy of the wage draft Will be
submitted to Director General OF Rail
{ roads Hines and another copy sent to
> the board on railroad wages and
working conditions.
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