Pete I too had never heard or seen any thing called "roustabout rate of
pay" until I read this 1890s file. I am making the assumption that since the
crew was formally asking for wayfrt rate(local rate) that roustabout was
equivalent to thru frt rate or maybe between the two.
Yes when I was in service there were two rates of pay,thru frt and local
rate which we all commonly referred to as wayfreight rate. The 3 s/o or p/us
were the deciding factor. The difference was minimal. But I hope in the future
the BRHS members will read an article in the Bulletin wherein a .39/day rate of
pay difference increase was important enough to have a series of claims be
appealed to abritration. That claim became the basis of a large file and that
generated the article about a little remembered aspect of Q business on a
certain line segment.
Something along the lines of for lack of.........................
As to the "jacket" you would have to leave it with me on a summer loan
until the fall meet as the current plan is do a "shoot" this spring or summer.
Nothing at the spring meet.
Leo Phillipp