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- Wages: Enginemen and electric motormen, 20s. per day (to suffer no reduction if reduced to firemen or electric trainmen). Firemen, assistant electric drivers and electric trainmen, 15s, per day. (If not promoted to driver or motorman after ten years service, to be paid the driver's or motorman's scale of pay; if reduced to cleaners or gatemen, to suffer no reduction). Cleaners and electric train gatemen, 10s. per day. When engaged on higher duties, to be paid on the scale applicable to those duties. Each turn of such duty to be recorded, and after completing 313 turns as such, or 10 years in the service, to be paid on the higher duty scale.
- Rent Allowance: 7s. 6d. per week special rent allowance to be granted to all men.
- Mileage Rates: On express passenger trains, 100 miles to be paid for as one day; for slow passenger trains and goods trains, 80 miles to be paid as one day. All mileage in excess to be paid at the rate of 10 miles per hour for express, and 8 miles per hour for slow passenger and goods trains.
- Lodging away from home to be abolished, but if such is impossible, if lodged at the company's expense at a suitable hotel, 4s. per day. If men provide their own accommodation, 10s. 6d, per day. Private lodgings as at present existing to be abolished.
- Holidays: Fourteen days holiday to be allowed annually, with full pay, after six months service, one extra day to be allowed for each Bank Holiday worked. Six free passes to be available annually, to any part of the United Kingdom, to the men, their wives, and families.
- Meal Times: All duties shall be so arranged that a minimum of 30 minutes shall be allowed for taking food between the 3rd and 4th hour of booking on duty, without loss of pay. Suitable accommodation to be provided to partake of food.
- Clothing: Three suits of combination overalls, or jackets and trousers, as preferred, be supplied, and laundered at the expense of the railway management. One top-coat, one
