RULE 1. (a) Basic Rates of Pay.
Rates for conductors and brakemen on trains propelled by steam or other
motive power: See current rate
sheets for passenger rates of pay for per mile, per day, per hour and per month
rates. Rate sheets will be maintained to reflect national agreements.
Helper conductors, when used to assist regularly assigned passenger
conductors, will receive passenger rates of pay and passenger miles.
The extra allowance for handling U.S. Mail by train baggagemen will apply
to conductors or brakemen who may be assigned regularly or temporarily to that
work. For application of the 46 cent differential for train baggagemen or
conductors or brakemen handling U.S. Mail, see Rule 11, Train Baggagemen.
(b) Passenger brakemen on passenger trains required to handle, load or
unload mail, baggage, express, etc., or required to assist in handling, loading
or unloading such business will be allowed differential of forty-six (46) cents
per day over the passenger brakeman's rate on trips on which such service is
performed.
This differential does not apply to brakemen receiving differential or
special allowance for handling head-end business, neither does it apply to
brakemen on motor runs or to brakemen on steam passenger runs temporarily
supplanting motor runs.
(c) Freight rates will be paid to conductors, baggagemen and brakemen of
passenger train on which company shipments are handled as set forth below:
1. Train Baggageman. The
payment of freight rates under the conditions hereinafter set forth, will apply
to train baggageman only where the cars containing the company shipments are in
his charge.
2. DC&M. Freight
rates will be paid for DC&H material or supplies (except fresh milk, cream,
ice cream and fish), to commissaries, restaurants or employee on line, but will
not be paid for supplies for the dining cars in the train, box lunches, DC&H
linen.
3. Company Material. Freight
rates will be paid for company material exceeding 100 pounds in weight in the
aggregate on the train at any one point between the crew's terminals, provided
that stationery, advertising and printed matter in excess of 100 pounds in the
aggregate, may be handled at passenger rates where the individual shipments for
any station between the crew's terminal points do not exceed 25 pounds in weight.
4. Mail. Freight
rates will not be paid for company mail, including payrolls, vouchers, tariffs,
tickets, meal and baggage checks, time-tables, reports, documents, statements,
blue-prints, specimens for tests, samples and defective materials for
inspection.
5. Washouts-Derailments. Freight
rates will not be paid for the handling of company shipments or material of any
kind, or in any volume, on passenger trains, for washouts, derailments or
interruptions to signal system, telegraph or telephone communications from any
point on the railroad direct to point of necessity in the territory within scope
of this agreement.
6. Express. Freight
rates will not be paid for any company material moving under express from off
line points to on line points, or line points to off line points, or for
shipments of less than 100 pounds in weight in the aggregate between points on
the line of the Pacific Railroad, nor for fresh milk, cream, fish and shipments
of money, regardless of weight (Express messengers and baggagemen will be
instructed to advise train conductor of shipments over 100 lbs. in the
aggregate.
7. Supplies. Freight
rates will not be paid to crews of passenger trains for handling following
company shipments:
(a) Ice or water for
employee
(b) Tools and repair
parts, not in excess of 100 pounds
accompanying each employe riding on passenger
trains
(c) Train signals or
flagging equipment
(d) Locomotive or
diesel parts carried on locomotives or diesels
for their own use
(e) Hospital
Department supplies
(f) Fresh milk,
cream, ice cream and fish for employes of the DC&H
Department, shipped under
either company or express billing.
(g) Clocks and
watches for use of company or its employes.
8. When freight rates apply under the provisions of this rule, the
conductors and brakemen will be paid the minimum freight rate of the passenger
district and the train baggagemen wi11 be paid same rate as the brakemen, and
where the freight rates do apply and the total weight of shipments loaded or
unloaded between the crews terminals amounts to 2500 pounds or more, local rates
apply for train crews.
9. Freight rates will apply to the mileage of the passenger district,
except that on trips of less than 150 miles conductors and brakemen will be
allowed freight rates for actual miles run or minimum of 150 miles at passenger
rates, whichever greater.
10. Train baggageman will be paid same rate as brakeman for each
passenger district on which conductors and brakemen are paid freight rates.
11. Overtime and terminal time will be allowed at freight rates on basis
of 12 1/2 miles per hour. Terminal
time will be computed on basis of passenger rules.