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Willie Glass, 60, a garbage man in Atlanta for many years and then unemployed for a spell, recently got a new job as a fireman on a Southern Railway diesel locomotive. On his first day at work, a supervisor showed him where to sit in the cab of the locomotive and where to find the toilet. Glass already feels confident he can perform a fireman's duties. "I don't do nothin'," he says. "I just...
...Southern withdrew from the 195-company united front that U.S. railroads have presented in their work-rules battle with five railroad operating unions. Instead, the Southern has carried on its own fight in its own way against outmoded work rules, particularly the rule requiring a fireman in the cab of every diesel locomotive. Says an executive of the 100%-diesel Southern: "We need locomotive firemen about like we need camel watchers...
...other elusive subject is Morris Markin, who learned how to keep his mouth shut during the taxi wars in Chicago in the lurid 1920s. For 31 weeks, Chicago Correspondent Miriam Rumwell got the run-around when she tried to reach him. Finally she turned up at his Checker cab factory in Kalamazoo, was told by David Markin that he didn't know his father's whereabouts. But after a two-hour conversation, in which she apparently passed some kind of test, David asked, "Would you like to see my father?" Reports Miss Rumwell: "We went into a room...
Befogged Future. Under the President's plan, the railroads may petition the ICC to establish new rules in the hottest area of dispute, notably the question of whether a fireman will continue riding in the cab of every diesel train, doing no necessary work. The commission must consider the findings of the presidential panels that have already exhaustively examined these issues and decided them in favor of management. The ICC is to act within 120 days "or as soon thereafter as is practicable"-a broad franchise for stalling...
After attending Colorado College, he set up his own flying school in Colorado Springs, later bought control of Frontier. Maytag put money-losing Frontier into the black during his four years there, but ran into CAB opposition to his plan to discontinue service to half of the points served by Frontier. He concedes that his initial naivete about the airlines business cost him endless head aches. He sold Frontier to go National...