Word: brotherhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms of most railroad employment still include the man-and-dollar-wasting practices known as featherbedding. These intricate Railroad Brotherhood rules, devised when railroad traffic was shrinking, are aimed at making work and keeping a maximum number of men on the payrolls. Though obsolete and wasteful now, featherbed rules are a sacred cow in labor politics. Few railroad presidents dare monkey with them...
Enter McNear. One of the few is big, brash George Plummer McNear Jr., 50, president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R.R. An individualist to the last ounce of his 200 lb., Railroader McNear has fought the Brotherhood rules for 15 years. But he finally ran into the U.S. Government. After a bloody three-month strike last winter, the U.S. Government kicked him out of office, seized...
...McNear one of the worst union rules is that denning a 100-mile run as a day's work, which it has not been for years. He also hates the Brotherhood-built barriers between road and yard work. Present rules say that if a road crew does ten minutes' yard work, all can claim a full day's yardman's pay besides their road pay. Worse still, the regular yardmen can claim a day's pay on the grounds that they were gypped...
...appreciate and understand the fighting men of the Indian Army. There are wiry, highland Gurkhas, who once each year must cut a wild goat in half with one swoop of a broad kukri; black-bearded Sikhs, whose proud name stands not for race or religion, but for a blood brotherhood of warriors; turbaned Pathans (pronounced pet-ahns). Indians like to quote the current figures on their Army: 1,000,000 men, "well equipped...
...Methodist Church. "Our sin against the Negro lies as a log across the path of Methodist progress," editorialized the Herald. "In these days of war, with discrimination against the Negro becoming a nationwide scandal, we are tongue-tied. . . . What is the church going to do about real brotherhood...