Word: enginemen
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...shortages. The Glasgow strikers accepted a Government settlement. The Tower Bridge also was opened to traffic again: the Government moved in Royal Navy crews to operate it, and workmen redecorating the Guildhall for a "Welcome Home" dinner for the Royal Family walked out in protest. In Durham, 20 striking enginemen shut down 15 collieries which employ 20,000 miners...
...bill did not go unopposed. The powerful Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, which has an anti-Negro clause in its constitution, fought hard from an extremely awkward position. So did the State Chamber of Commerce and the State Bar Association. They and other opponents wondered how it was possible to legislate against the human feelings that bring discrimination about. Some employers went so far as to prophesy that New York's industries would move out and leave it a ghost state...
...insult. . . . I predict that it is the straw that will break the back of the unfair and inequitable wages and prices camel of the Government." The speaker was the usually conservative David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. His subject: the decision of a special railway emergency board, affecting 400,000 members of his and four other operating railroad unions...
...significant procession of labor advisers filed into the White House one by one: George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, Philip Murray of C.I.O., Anna Rosenberg of the War Manpower Commission, David B. Robertson of the Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. All four have worked for labor unity...
...Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors of America, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Switchmen's Union of North America...