Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-25 | Page 1 | Hines Finishes Rail Pay Scale

HIS FINISHES RAIL PHI SCALE . Agreement Reached on Wages -for Maintenance of Way Employees. WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. A new wage and working agreement "was signed late today between the railroad j administration and officials of the Brotherhood of t Maintenance of "Way Employees and railway track laborers. While demands of the union were not fully met, (he tight-hour basic day was established for track lafcnrrers and others oth-ers of that classification, and time and a half after that hour was provided. pro-vided. Most or the other employees included in-cluded under the agreement will re-I re-I ceive time and a half overtime pay af-I af-I ter ten hours. j Signing of the new contract by Di- re'etor General Hines ended negotiations negotia-tions which have been in progress since (February, Approximately 400,000 men are affected, railroad administration officials estimated. The contract also i provides that it shall be applicable dur-I dur-I ing the period of federal control of the roads unless notice of 30 days is ! given of its cancellation. ' Specifically, " an announcement by Mr. Hines says, 1 the new contract provides pro-vides overtime for regular section laborers la-borers and other employees in this classification clas-sification except laborers in extra or floating gangs, whose employment is seasonal and temporary in character, and certain employees whoso positions do not require continuous manual labor will be paid on tho basis of time and one-half after the eighth hour of continuous con-tinuous service exclusive of the meal period, thus applying the same principle princi-ple vyhieh was established last year for important classes of railroad workers. ( Heretofore such maintenance em-plovecs em-plovecs have been paid overtime at prorata pro-rata rates for the ninth and tenth hoar and time and one-half after the tenth hour! Under the agreement laborers iu extra or floating gangs, whose employment employ-ment is seasonal or temporary in character, char-acter, will be paid overtime, at a prorata pro-rata rate for the ninth and tenth hour and time and one-half after the tenth hour, whereas employees holding positions posi-tions not requiring continuous manual labor such as track, bridge and highway high-way crossing watchmen, signalmen at railway non-interlocked crossings, lamp-engine lamp-engine watchmen at isolated points and pumpers, will continue to be paid for their present hours of work ;i monthly rate equal to their present day.