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Firemen & Featherbeds. The railroads want to revoke their 1937 concession to the Firemen's Brotherhood and get rid of the firemen on diesels in freight and yard service. These firemen do no necessary work, the railroads say. Firemen would continue to ride in the cabs of passenger trains to serve as safety lookouts. Some diesel engineers frankly agree that firemen are dispensable. "I don't really need him," says an Ohio engineer, "but he's handy to have around. He gets four hours' sleep and I get four hours' sleep." Another diesel engineer tells...
...work rules" that the operating rail unions got from management in the course of three generations of strikes, strike threats and negotiations. Technology has outmoded many of the rules. Firemen used to shovel coal on steam locomotives; on today's diesels a fireman still rides along in the cab, doing no necessary work. The pay scale of many railroad workers is based on the quaint rule that a man gets a full day's pay for 100 miles of travel, with the result that an engineer on a fast express may get $39.95 for four hours' work...
...Splitting along party lines (three Democrats to two Republicans), the Civil Aeronautics Board rejected a merger proposal by Eastern and American airlines to form the nation's largest domestic airline. Says CAB Chairman Allan Boyd: "The risk of concentrating so much power in one airline outweighed the benefit the merger might have had for American and Eastern." The refusal left Eastern in a grave financial state. Faced with withering over-competition and crippled by a recent flight engineers' strike, it has suffered a pretax loss of $60.3 million in the past three years, including...
...Hard-pressed Northeast Airlines faced the loss of six jetliners and nine turboprop planes. General Dynamics Corp. and Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. moved to repossess their planes after a CAB examiner recommended that Northeast be refused a permanent certificate to fly the Miami-New York run. Without this route, most airline experts feel, Northeast has next to no chance of survival. Through his attorneys, elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes, who controls Northeast, began intense negotiations to stall off Vickers and General Dynamics until he can line up other planes to keep Northeast flying. He obviously hopes to find a merger partner...
...Senators agreed, but seemed in a mood to give quick approval to an Administration bill, sent to Congress last week, that would give the CAB specific authority to deal with international air fares. The American case was hampered by the fact that the two U.S. carriers (Pan Am and TWA) had not opposed the fare raise and that the CAB had not intervened until two weeks before it was to take effect. This is what brought on the charges of U.S. bad faith. Though clumsily handled, the U.S. case had merit in its main point that when many...