"Your E.C. submitted counter proposals on the side issues, to be discussed at next Conference, if the other side will offer sufficiently high wage rates to balance. Hearing that the N.U.R. were breaking off negotiations, your E.C. have notified the Government that nothing must be allowed to delay the negotiations on behalf of Loco, men which this Society, representing the majority of such men, desires brought to a speedy issue."
For purposes of this Conference, the following programme was tabled:
Wages.
Enginemen and Electric Motormen.
20s. per day (of 8 hours), plus sliding scale increase.
Enginemen or electric motormen reduced to firemen or electric trainmen to suffer no reduction in the above scale.
Firemen and Electric Trainmen.
16s. per day (of 8 hours), plus sliding scale increase.
Any man working as a fireman or electric trainman who has been in the service for 15 years, and not promoted to engineman or electric motorman, to be paid the engineman's or electric motorman's scale.
Firemen or electric traînmen reduced to cleaners or electric train gatemen to suffer no reduction in the above scale.
Cleaners and Electric Train Gatemen.
10s. per day (of 8 hours), plus sliding scale increase.
Payment When Engaged On Higher Duties.
Firemen and electric trainmen, when employed as enginemen or electric motormen, to be paid as the enginemen or electric motormen, Each turn of duty to be recorded, and after completing 313 turns as such, consecutively or otherwise, or 15 years in the service, whichever comes first, to be paid the same as enginemen or electric motormen.
Cleaners or electric train gatemen, when employed as firemen or electric trainmen, to be paid the same as the fireman or the electric trainman. Each turn of duty to be recorded, and after completing 313 turns as such, consecutively or otherwise, or 6 years in the service, whichever comes first, to be paid the same as firemen or electric trainmen.
Cleaners or electric train gatemen, when employed on work other than cleaning, firing, electric trainmen's or electric train gatemen's duties, to receive the wages applicable to the duty they are called upon to perform, or their own rate of pay, whichever is the highest.
