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To the Honourable Board of Directors,

Humbly Sheweth,

That your Memorialists approach your Honourable Board by lay before you the desire of your Memorialists, and regret that they should be compelled to make this third appeal to you for the withdrawal of Circular 3,478, issued by Mr. Dean. October 1st, 1879, which increases the hours of labour, and in many cases reduces the wages of your Memorialists, and ask your Honourable Board for ten hours per day booking on and off duty, also 150 miles for passenger and 120 miles for goods to constitute a day's work. That no man receive less than six days if able to perform his duty; and we consider classification as put in Circular 3,478 a very unfair thing between master and man; and being undismayed by the opposition you gave to our second appeal, we, as workmen in whose hands the lives and property of yours and the public are placed, are convinced that, in justice to our employers and ourselves, we are entitled to a more merciful consideration from your Honourable Board, and for further justification we may mention that the increased anxiety, excessive speed, and the additional number and weights of the trains, additional signals, and night duty we have to perform, alone is sufficient to lay claim to the suggestions in this Memorial, and which is necessary for the safety of ourselves and the benefit of our employers, and we also ask your Honourable Board to receive a deputation of the men to state their grievances, and place your Memorialists in the position they now seek, to obtain direct from the Board, as your Memorialists are at all times agreeable to accept any reasonable terms issued direct from you, otherwise would feel extremely grieved to state that we cannot possibly accept Circular 3,478.

And in conclusion your Memorialists ask for scale of wages to remain as in 1874 Circular, and express their gratitude for all past favours.