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 and a quarter for all overtime and for night duty between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.; guaranteed day for each time of signing on duty; guaranteed week, exclusive of Sunday.

Rest: At least twelve hours rest between each turn of duty at home station; at least nine hours when booked off away from home station.

Wages: Enginemen and electric motormen. 14s. per day; if reduced to firemen or electric trainmen, 14s. per day. Firemen and electric trainmen, 10s. per day, or after 15 years service without promotion to driver, 14s. per day; if reduced to cleaners or gatemen, to receive 10s. per day. Cleaners and electric train gatemen, 7s. per day of 8 hours.

Higher Duties: Firemen and electric trainmen, employed as enginemen or electric motormen, to receive not less than the engineman's or motorman's rate of pay, each turn of duty to be recorded, and after completing 313 turns as such, or 15 years in the service, whichever comes first, to be rated as enginemen or motormen. Cleaners and gatemen when employed on work other than cleaning, firing, gatework, etc., to receive the rate of pay of that work, or their own rate of pay, whichever is the highest.

In every Agreement a clause to be included as follows:—For the regulation of advances and reductions in accordance with the cost of living, the cost of living during June, 1917, shall be the unit. Every ten per cent. increase in the cost of living from that date shall warrant a ten per cent. increase in the standard rate of pay, reductions to be on the same basis, but no reductions in the rate of pay shall take place if the cost of living falls below the June, 1917, Board of Trade returns.

Rent Allowance 5s. per week special rent allowance to all men in the London area and expensive industrial centres.

Mileage Rates: 130 miles on express passenger trains to be paid as one day; 100 miles on local passenger trains and express goods trains to be paid as one day. All miles run in excess to be paid for at the rate of 10 miles per hour.

Lodging Allowance: 2s. per day where the company provide