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...Third Man. The argument began around 1935 when imperious, pint-sized David Robertson, boss of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,* woke up to a new fact of industrial life. Oil-burning diesel engines, which railroads were using in increasing numbers, were being operated with only one man, an engineer. A lot of firemen were going to be out of work. Robertson demanded that a fireman be put on every diesel (to tend no fires, but to make an occasional check in the engine room, keep an eye on gauges, and help the engineer look out the window...
Then the firemen reached out for another concession-a second fireman in every diesel engine crew. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had been trying to get in on the deal, arguing that there should be a second engineer. The railroads turned both brotherhoods down, on the ground that their demands were out & out featherbedding. Over a period of six years three presidential boards had a careful look at the facts, decided that the brotherhoods were unreasonable. Railroads estimated that adding a third man would cost them at least $40 million a year...
...weeks ago. First, Garry and Audrey said their vows in the city hall plaza at Ellsworth, Me., while 500 townspeople joined in chanting a "unification of love" service which Garry had written, printed and passed around. Asked about his wedding guests, he explained: "I have always believed in the brotherhood of man and I want the people to take part in our wedding. We don't matter except that we are part of the community. My body is only incidental. It's my spirit that's the real Garry Davis. And my spirit is certainly part...
...very great trouble today, we and the whole of mankind. The organized form of that trouble is easy to name. It is Soviet Communism. In his letter calling for Brotherhood Week, the President of the United States key-noted 'totalitarianism' as the new barbarism which threatens us today. You and I know that there is only one totalitarianism which now threatens the security of the United States and the peace of the world. And you and I are free to name it - Soviet Communism. "What are we going to do about...
...Walt Whitman who gave the fullest imaginative expression to the theme of manifest destiny. He clothed the idea of westward expansion in highly idealistic terms, seeing in it a restoration of man's lost harmony with nature as well as a prelude to peace and brotherhood of nations. Then came James Fenimore Cooper who cautiously modified the romantic tradition in the novel to give America its mythological pioneer prototype in Leatherstocking...