Word: doak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perhaps to be Secretary of Labor: William N. Doak, not because he is a Virginian but because, as vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers, he is an able representative of union labor...
Last week the scheme was completed. Representatives of both parties called at the White House and presented their plan. They were W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania; W. N. Doak, official representative of the Railroad Trainmen; D. B. Robertson, President of the Firemen and Enginemen; B. M. Jewell, President of the Railway Employes Department, A. F. of L. Later Senator Jim Watson, of Indiana, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, dined at the White House. Then he introduced into the Senate a bill embodying the scheme...
...railroad president stated the grievances and trials of the railways. Nevertheless, a deep impression was made when a policy of fair play for the railroads was successively urged by a farmer (0. E. Bradfute, President of the American Farm Bureau Federation), a labor union representative (W. N. Doak, senior Vice President of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen), and a banker (W. W. Head, First Vice President of the American Bankers' Association). If the agricultural shipper, the unionized railroad employee and the financier can agree upon a railroad policy, it would seem that public opinion will soon crystallize about...