Contracts for labourers in Chapleau
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subject: Canadian Pacific Railway
subject: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
subject: Business
subject: Contract labor
subject: Contracts
is part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
creator: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
issued: 2018-10-19
created: 1894-04-18
description: Book of contracts for labourers from the Chapleau Division of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Each contract provides the employee name, position, address and rate of pay.
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note: Form 277. a. Book For the purpose of w6rkin COMPANY, as f>yd2 GbdT-ZL-CtA- No. for THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY 3 Br^ Form 277. A Book 3No.. «SL¥AY COM- fSpv V*-uagree to go, as soon as directed by the Company, i&y and thence to the place where the work is to be done, provided that I get free transportation there and also back again, unless I am discharged for cause, or abandon the work without leave, in which case I am to be entitled, on request, to a second-class ticket, if there be sufficient wages then due to me and unpaid to pay the price thereof. * . I undertake to work for the Company &\zC3d3f-dy&dZ^Q2^yd3-Cs/~ or any other place to which it may transport me free, so long as my services are required, waggp to commence when I start work and to be at the rate of ^Gssfree transpor- ^tllidon the work @>?i»class ticket, if .per. _and to be payable, if I ^ wsLare required, <Z3Zf~. WddA^z. fA? ^"e, at the same remain in the Company's service, at the same time each month as wages of others in its service, but if I leave or I aril discharged, then I am to get a memorandum showing the amounts then earned, and unpaid to me, also the amount of charges against me on the Company's books, and the balance mentioned in said memorandum will be paid to me at one of the pay stations of the Company. The Company agrees that I may start working on above conditions within a reaaonable time, not to exceed ten days, after my arrival at my destination, and x2Zz^ upon presentation of this agreement tn *.—^3 *^ ^AmetZTyisZlTtyi SsKSjcharged, then %<Sfb me, also the #4Sitioned in said %■ I'Mthin a reason- i presentation On behalf of the Can. Pac. Ry. Co. >se of working for THE CANADIAN PACJEIC EAILWAY COM- I, ^agree rected by the Company, to . place where the work is to be done, provided that I get free transpor- o back again, unless I am discharged for cause, or abandon the work hich case I am to be entitled, on request, to a second-class ticket, if rages then due to me and unpaid to pay…
has type: Contracts
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0372912
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
current location: Box 252
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-TX-252-13
type: Text