The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-04-28

the crew was first called?
Answer-Yes The following illus
trates the method of paying a wreck
ing crew under the national agree
ment when performing road service:
a wrecking crew composed of six
men leaves tbs home terminal at 500
a. m, goes distance OF 50 miles TO
clear up a wreck; work of clearing
main track is completed at 600 .. m;
crew ties up for sleep and rest from
500 =. m to 700 a. m. next morning
(wrecking OUTFIT is equipped with
sleeping facilues); resume duty 1900
la. M pick up refuse and arrive at
home terminal at 300 p. m. Under
the national agreement it is necessary
to pay the entire crew continuous for
the first "a hours from the time they
leave their home terminal. computed
as follows:
From 500 a. m. to 400 p m. s
hours straight time, 400 p. m. TO II
midnight s hours at time and one
half or u hours.
1900 midnight to 500 a. m. s
hours at double time or 16 hours.
500 a. m. to 200 p m. hours at
straight time.
Total Of ~ hours paid although
crew actually performed service from
i noon to 600 p. m first day, hours,
and from 1900 a. m. to 1000 a. m.
second day, 3 hours; it will be not
ed actual time worked during the en-
tire period was nine hours, balance of
the time was consumed in waiting
and travelling and it win be further !
noted they were released entirely |
from 500 p. m. to 700 a. m. during /
which time they were paid at time |
md one-half and double time while |
actually off duty and sleeping.
(b). Is it true that if mechanic is
Jailed after regular hours for a stat
ID job, and is assigned to two other
obs, all of which is done in seven
,ours from start to finish, he would
'eceiVe not less than IS hours and
possibly 18 hours pay for 7 hours
work, because the two last jobs did
Tot develop when he was first called?
Answer-Yes
5. (a). Is It true that if a shopman
S held after his regular 9-hour as
ignment, to complete a job, for, say,
me hour and fifteen minutes, he
would receive pay for 6Is hours, for
lis one hour and fifteen minutes
work?
Answer-Yes Illustrative of this,
$ a recent case of mechanic work
ng on passenger car work until $500
B. m. or one hour beyond his assign
d day. He had just stepped off the
ar when another employe pulled the
iandle off water valve Foreman was
resent and called mechanic back to
* this valve. He performed this
work. and had checked out at clock
ully 100 yards away. at sos p. m. All
e had to do was to loosen two
crews, put handle back on and tight
n screws, about three minutes work
Vas necessary to allow him 5-hour
all for this service.
(b). Is it true that under the former
ractice the employe, in the above
ase. would receive one hour and fif-
y two minutes, instead of 6Ja hours?
Answer-Yes.
6. (a). Is it true that under the
resent rules all shop employees are
flowed one hour week without per-
,rming any serVice-time is allowed J
n the pretext of checking themselves
/ and out of the shop? C
Answer-Yes- After the issuance
the national agreement the appli-
ltion of this rule increased the ex-
ense on one railroad of approxim- J.
ely 5000 miles, to the extent of
10000 per year.
(b). Is it true that this bonus hour
'sts the road twelve million dollars
n year?
Answer-Yes. This was developed "
hearing before labor board. .
7. (a). Is it true that all shop forces, -
legraphers, agents, towermen and -
irdmen receive eight hours pay and
ork only seven hours and forty min "
es, the twenty minutes being allow j
to eat on the company's time?
shop forces do not re- n
i've eight hours pay for seven hours IL
ID forty minutes work Where there ~
e continuous shifts, at practically ~
roundhouses, these shifts are al -
wed twenty minutes with pay for II
nch but at back shops and larger al
ops where the shifts are not con- %
NOUS, the lunch hour or whatever ~
Mount of time is decided upon is y
Quoted. Agents do not receive
urs pay for hours and 40 minutes
)rk, as in practically all cases they
e allowed meal hour without pay
lis is also true of telegraphers ex- N
pit where continuous service is
lintained Yardmen, however, are
owed 20 minutes for lunch with pay Y
sulting in their receiving s hours h;
y for hours and 40 minutes work. &c
(b). Did this practice prevail I'M 10
r private operation? la
Answer-This prevailed on certain NJ
lroads under private operation in Il,
far as shop crafts were concerned al
lere three shifts We're worked W
3. Is it true that under the national to
?