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When the American Federation of Labor tried to persuade airplane pilots to unionize a few years ago it was given a chilly reception. Flyers were public idols. Like sea captains, they recoiled from the thought of brotherhood with locomotive engineers. Also, they were paid as much as $10,000 or $15,000 a year because of the risk. Organizations like the National Air Pilots' Association and Professional Pilots' Association (with codes of ethics, death benefits, etc.) thrived; but unionization was disdained...
...convened the Railway Labor Executives Association. Present were the officials of 21 unions. They were the spokesmen for 1,250,000 men who work on U. S. railways, earn $2,250,000,000 a year. Bulwarks of the association, though numerically far in the minority, are the Big Four Brotherhoods: firemen & enginemen, trainmen, conductors, engineers, to the number of 310,000. President of the firemen & enginemen's brotherhood is David Brown Robertson, who started railroading as an engine wiper on the Pennsylvania. He is also chairman of the executives' association, is therefore the Voice of organized railroad labor...
Society of Directors of Physical Education in Colleges; Sportsmanship Brotherhood; American Football Coaches Association. They pondered "over-emphasis" of football, a matter recently brought to the attention of press & public by the fact that in the past autumn 45 football players died of injuries (TIME, Dec. 14). Sportsmanship Brotherhood was in formed by John T. MacGovern. co author of Carnegie Bulletin No. 23, excoriating professionalism in college football, that "the scandalous conduct of the spectators has done more to break down the best traditions of American athletics than any subsidizing . . . proselytizing. . . ." He laid the blame for over emphasis on "cigar...
...President's hope was materially strengthened when Daniel Willard, president of Baltimore & Ohio, visited the White House, laid before him all the plans and expectations of the carrier executives. For weeks Mr. Willard has been in constant negotiation with brotherhood leaders and no U. S. railman today knows the temper of U. S. rail labor better than he. To the President he said: "I'm confident an agreement will be reached at the wage conference and I'm hopeful for a solution of the railroads difficulties." He explained that $200,000,000 would come from a wage...
...kept by the American Banker showed that the country's banks were being diminished at a rate of more than ten a day. Citizens Bank of Hickory Ridge, Ark., with $29,000 deposits, shared the same fate as Standard Trust Bank of Cleveland, first and greatest of the Brotherhood Banks, placed under independent management in 1930. Of Standard's $22,000,000 in assets at least $2,000,000 represented the engineering Brotherhood's "war chest," accumulated to finance possible strikes. Significant was the fact that last week's bank-closings brought the 1931 total...