Word: bus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...element in the nation's transport system the bus industry achieved official maturity in 1935 when Congress put it, along with trucking, under control of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Appropriately the interstate bus drivers went into the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. But interstate bus and truck lines are not yet within the moderating influence of the Railway Labor Act. Result was that with little or no warning, the country last week suffered its first major bus strike. The Railroad Trainmen called out 1,300 drivers on eight Greyhound lines serving 16 States east of the Mississippi...
...Greyhound service in Boston and Philadelphia stood still. Elsewhere, in widely varying degrees of regularity, bus schedules were maintained, though there was a sharp drop in traffic. Busses still rolling entered the terminals well splashed with ripe tomatoes. Tires were slashed, windows stoned. In Washington, eleven pickets were arrested for forcing a bus to the curb and beating the driver. Five men were arrested in Springfield, Ill. for the same tactics, while four others were picked up for investigation as alleged "strongarm guards" employed by the company...
...most remarkable suits in the history of U. S. labor. They asked $6,300,000 damages from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, President Alexander Fell Whitney and 19 other Brothers on the ground that the strike was called, not to improve wages and working conditions of bus drivers, but in behalf of railroad passenger traffic. The trainmen for years, it was argued, have tried "to limit development of highway passenger transportation." It seemed quite obvious to Greyhound-at least for propaganda purposes-that since railroading trainmen far outnumbered the bus-driving trainmen, the Brotherhood called the strike "with a view...
...There were also photostats of the signatures of certain Cabinet Ministers, a list of Cabinet Ministers and legislators marked for arrest at the outbreak of the rising, a file detailing meaus of seizing garages and busses belonging to the Paris street-bus system and municipal garbage trucks, to be converted into offensive weapons, plans to seize the supply of arms stored at the Mont Valérien fortress, and so forth...
Letters were sent to each of the seven Houses in support of higher wages and union recognition for waitresses, the kitchen force, and bus boys. The signed petitions have been sent to Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager...