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CHICAGO MILWAUKEE
ST PAUL
THE MILWAUKEE ROAD
GENERAL
EMPORIUM EMPLOYEE WINS WAGES CLAIM
Mr. Justice Lindsell's
Important Decision
ENGINEERING NOTES
A Record
Performance?
It is no uncommon thing is read in the Press of prodigious mileages put up by road vehicles, but loss frequently details appear of record performances achieved by ilation- ary engines, possibly because, they are less spectacular. From time to time, however, outstanding events do accur, and such a case has just been reported in England. put the
In December last a Diesel engine
Judgment for plaintiff was given by the Puisne Judge, Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, in Summary Court yesterday in the case in which the China Emporium Ltd., were sued by Cheng Pik-sun, an ox-employee. for return of money representing the aggregate of certain deductions made in his salary in the period August 1934 to August 1936.
His Lordship summed up his de-period of depression, that none of cision as follows:-
them received a copy of the notice In this action the plain, an(exhibit "A") setting ex-employee of the defendant Com-"ipsissima verba" of the resolution made by the English Eleatic Co. pany, which is commonly known of the Standing Committee, and completed 25 years running at an as the China Emporium, seeks to that the only notice seen by any ecover from the Company the ag- one of them was one posted at the of certain deductions door of their mess which contained that were made from his salary in no more than a bare statement of the two years running from August. the scale of cuts. 1934 to August, 1936.
gregate
I accept the evidence for the Prior to August. 1934, the plain-plaintiff on this point. I believe tiff's salary as one of the Com-that both he and his witnesses were pany's principal buyers was $95 per present at the meeting of August month but in that month a general 15th and were given to understand cut of the salaries of all employees that the Company undertook, in was effected in the following er-consideration of their submitting without fuss to the cut, to refund cumstances.
18 the cut sc soon
average
of 103
hours 3 week.
course, been
During this period Inspections and overhauls have, of carried out from time to me, but it is noteworthy that when after 19 years. the crankshaft was lifted. It was found to be in such perfect condition that it and the bearings were merely cleaned and put back
again.
SIX YEARS' RUNNING The engine is a 4-cyclinter type with cylinders of 305 mm, bore and In 1934 the business of the Com-the amounts
460 m.m. stroke, and when pistons pany was not flourishing. OnCompany made a proft.
were removed recently for the first "SOFTENED THE BLOW August 9th at a meeting of the
time in 6 years-that is, about 25,- It is quite clear that Mr. Chan 1000 running hours-since the pre- Standing Committee, which is an Inner council of the Company's Harr was anxious about the possi vious overhaul--their ccndition was Board of Directors, it was resolved ble reactions of the Company's remarkable. The actual vertical that the salaries of all employees staff to the cut-he anticipated clearance in the grooves ranged
Am satisfieri should be cut on a sliding scale opposition"-and I
from 4/1000 in, in the lowest groove as from August 1st, that when the that he wittingly softened the blow to 12, 1000 in. In the top groove.
promises of which he nnancial position of the Company by liberal
The rate of liner wear during Improved and the business showed may possibly not have realised the the 6 years of running works out a proft, the matter should be re-full implications.
at, 0.00183 in. per thousand hours This view is to some extent supon the crankshaft axis and 0.00163 considered by the Board with a view to refunding, by instalments ported by the form in which the in. per thousand hours transversely.! the sums deducted from salaries by resolution of the Board of Directors Germ lubricating oil was in use the way of cut but that no employee's recorded:-
whole time, and it is understood "Should in future the Company that the consumption works out at the meantime resigned } who in from, or was dismissed by, the make any profit whether much the very lo figure of 8000 B.N.P
or little the amounts sp cut shall hours per gallon. entitled to Company should be share in the refund.
be restored after due considera" tion."
of
MEETING CALLED
مر کو
LOW OIL CONSUMPTION The very low rate of lubricating
On August 15th the General) It follows that the Company hayot consumption, associated with Manager, Mr. Chan Harr, summoning given to its employees through the low rate of liner wear, is signi ed a meeting of the principal heads its General Manager an unqualified fcant and is in line with the build- departments "including the undertaking to repay as soon as it ers' experience generally, accord- plaintiff and communicated some made a profit, and having thereby ing to The Engineer." A further at any rate of the details of the induced its employees to remain point of Interest is the practice of "cut" scheme to them. That he re-in its service at reduced salaries. the waterworks authorities, where vealed the whole scheme with all cannot now be heard to say that the engine is installed, to run the its terms is denied "by the plaintiff the word proft" was used and plant for a week non-stop.. and his witnesses but I shall deal intended to be anderstood in the There are two identical engines. with this point later.
particular and limited sense of in the station, the later one in- The scheme, which was now to"profit in excess of a sum sufficient stalled by the English Electric Co. come into operation on August to pay 8 per cent. to the Company's in 1922, and they now take the 16th was accepted, so far as it was shareholders as required by No. pumping duties during alternate made clear to them by the em-134(a) of the Company's Articles of weeks. This procedure means that ployees, and was conarmed at a Association."
the running hours per start are I hold that the Company is unusually high, with, a lavourable meeting of the whole Board of Directors on August 16th.
reaction on the rate of her wear,
estopped from raising any such point.
4.
Nor is there to my mind any the argument that the
It is of some importance to note that the refund provisions of the scheme so approved by the Board merit in and recorded in the minutes of plaintiff by leaving the Company's their meeting of August 18th do not service in 1936 deprived himself of exactly tally with the correspond-all right to a refund in accordance ing provisions passed by the Stand-with the Anal provision of the Ing Committee as recorded in the "cut" scheme. minutes of their meeting of August
NO NOTICE
9th.
As already indicated I am satis- The translation of the materialed that the whole scheme was not part of the minutes of the Stand-communicated to the plaintiff at ing Committee's meeting reads as any time and that he had follows:-
MUI-TSAI TALE DISBELIEVED
Canton Woman Fined
A somewhat unusual mui-taal no case was brought to the notice of the oice of any restriction of his Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at "Should the business condition right to a refund other than the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday.
Li Kwan, a 28-year-old, married in Hong Kong make any improve ability of the Company to make a
woman, was charged with keep- meat and our Company "make profit.
unregistered mui-tsai, any profit in the future the Board
It is admitted that the Company Ing
ал
LI Kwan, however, denied the charge and told the Court that two years ago the girl's mother It was torrowed 8130 from het.
of Directors shall be approached did make profit in each of the Seen To, when it was alleged. with a request for having such years 1935-6 and 1936-7 as shown defendant bought for the sum of salary cuts gradually restored in its Balance Sheets for those two $130. after cue consideration". Ex-years, and even though that pro- hibit "E")
fit may have been more apparent and that of the corresponding part than real it was such a profit as of the minutes of the Board meet-to give the plaintiff the right to ing is:--
the refund which was promised him agreed at the time that Seen To would be "hired" to defendant at "Should in the future the Com-in August, 1934.
Even if he were bound by the the rate of $2 a month and in pany make any profit whether
employee who this way work off the amount for much or little the amounts so provision that no cut shall be restored after due resigned or was dismissed should her mother.
Continuing defendant said that consideration." V. Exhibit "Fbe entitled to claim any refund, I
CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE am of opinion that his right of she had lived in Canton until the l
soon as the hostilities penetrated to that city As to the form in which the action accrued 25 scheme was communicated to the Company's balance sheet for the when they came to Hong Kong. Company's employees on August year 1935-6, showing a profit of Or March 6, the girl ran 15th by the General Manager there over $50.000 on the your's working, and went to the police with the is a direct conflict of evidence. was published, and could not be story that she wanted to return That was how The case for the defence is that defeated by his subsequent resigna- to her mother.
the matter came to the notice of at the meeting on that date the tion.
For these reasons I give judgment the Police. General Manager, read out the exact words of the resolation of the for the plaintin with costs. Standing Committee which had been reproduced in a number of notices one copy of which was Handed to each departmental head present in order that he might atudy the scheme and communil- cate it to his fokis. (v. Exhibit "A"),! If this evidence is appted there
SEAFORTHIS LEAVE
•
FOR SHANGHAI
:J
To Relieve Loyal
Regiment
H.M.
Troopship Somersetshire
away
The Magistrate, however, ruled that Kwan, despite the story she told, was guilty and imposed a fre of $50.
DRIVING CAR WHILE INTOXICATED
European Charged At Kowloon Court
is an end of the case since the left Hong Kong at noon yesterday "refund" provision in this form for Shanghai, taking with her the is no more than an undertaking by 1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
A remand till March 30 at 2.30 the management to have the mat- who will complete the balance of
was ordered when B. ter, if and when the Company's their Far Eastern service at that P.m.
Hankin, of No. 4 Bedford Road, financial position improves, re-port, relieving the Loyals, considered by the Board of Direc- Alre on board, bound for Shang-was supirnoned befort Mr. Q. A. tors with a view to the refund by hai, was Major J. M. Smith, of the A Macfadyen at the Kowloon instalments of the sums deducted Royal Artillery. trom salaries during the period of depression.".
Magistracy yesterday for driving The Bomersetshire la going his car No. 1748 In Waterloo and straight Home after calling at Prince Edward "Roads while under On the other hand the plaintiff, Shanghai, and with her will be the influence of drink and his two ̈ witnesses are em- For Colombo: Sgt. A. Rowell and
phatic in stating that what they Mrs. Rowell of the 8th. Heavy Corps and one each from the Royal were offered at the meeting was Brigade..
Bignals and the Loyak (from the
a refund, so soon as the Company For the United Kingdom: W. O. Bhanghai area); Capt Lyne of the made a profit, of all suma deducted L/Col. de Lacer. R.WF, three de-1st. Battalion, Lancashire. Fusiliers from their salaries during the talls of the Royal Army Service (from the Tientsin grea).
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