APPENDIX VI

APPLICATION OF INCREASES TO EMPLOYEES IN THE

TRAIN AND ENGINE SERVICE.

In the body of the report it is stated that a plan

has been devised for translating the increases applied to employees generally into mileage rates as applicable to employees in the train and engine service of the railroad.

The plan may be simply stated as follows:

There are nine classes of train and engine employees
We have computed the average

in the I. C. C's Classification.

monthly earnings of each of these classes for the fiscal year 1915. We have applied to the mileage rates paid to the se classes in 1915, the same rate per cent which we award to thoas other employees whose monthly straight time wages equal that average. These percentages are included in the table of increases found at page 20 and following, in the main body of the report. This process is more clearly disclosed by the following table:

We have worked out the actual application of this percent

age system, and in the computations appearing in the tables following, the rate for 1915 appears under the heading "Old" and the increased rates under the heading "New".

By reference to this table it will be seen that the rates for passenger engineers and motormen in 1915, ranging from $4.10 per 100 miles, to $7.00 per 100 miles, will be substituted by new rates ranging from $4.56 per 100 miles to $7.79 per 100 miles.

This plan will apply to all employees of the train and engine service who are paid on the mileage basis. There are some railroads in the United States upon which men in the train and engine service are paid on a monthly wage. Such employees will be entitled to the increased rates named in Appendix V.

Rates for overtime as now in effect, shall be increased

by the same percentage as straight time rates.