Word: enginemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, citing a survey prepared by the Railway Labor Executives' Association, H. E. Gilbert, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, indicated just how far the New Haven has come under Alpert's presidency. Charging railroad lines in the New York area with deliberately providing bad service to drive commuters away and thereby end a money-losing operation, Gilbert delivered a devastating bill of particulars. Notably excepted was the Long Island Railroad, which has come from a commuter's nightmare to something close to a commuter's dream (TIME...
Last week, in Canada, the firemen gave way too. After a bitter, two-year struggle -regarded as a test case for all North American railroads -the giant. 17,000-mile Canadian Pacific Railway Co. finally wrested an admission from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that a fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched...
...standards, Britain's enginemen make but a small dent in world markets. Exports last year amounted to only $62 million, less than Britain earned from tobacco product sales. But sales are growing rapidly, have increased more than 300% in five years and will probably jump to $75 million this year. In addition, the industry currently has 14 engines under license for foreign manufacture. The U.S. alone makes eight different types of British power plants, has turned out 15,000 British-licensed engines for 13 types of American planes since World War II. e.g., North American...
...steel and $10 million in wages. In Birmingham, there was evidence aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...
...turboprop, which is coming into use in transports, notably the British Viscount. Most of the energy that it develops spins a geared propeller that moves a large volume of air comparatively slowly and yields almost ideal propulsive efficiency. But propellers have many failings at high speed, and few enginemen think they will serve above. 450 m.p.h...