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...American Congress of Labor "supersede and embrace" A. F. of L., C. I. 0., and the hitherto independent Big Four railroad brotherhoods (Engineers, Firemen & Enginemen, Railway Conductors, Trainmen...
...Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, President Bert Mark Jewell of the Railway Employes' Department of A. F. of L. and President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Last week, after Messrs. Gray and Harrison again conferred with Franklin Roosevelt, the committee finally reported...
...boilers to adjust speed. On small engines the Johnson bar causes no trouble, has been used for 50 years without improvement. When bigger engines began to appear 20 years ago, however, handling the bar became back-breaking work and the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen began agitating for relief. Then came the power reverse gear which did the same job by air or steam-pressure released by nicking a small lever. Insisting on its installation, the Brotherhoods four years ago got the Interstate Commerce Commission to order it. Because each installation costs $500, the railroads...
Immediately, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen yowled in protest, said the Burlington was endangering its trains, since the "dead man's control" might fail. Denying this, the railroad refused to negotiate, stood pat, though the cost of hiring extra men for Zephyrs would total at present but $88 a day more. Nothing daunted, the Brotherhood polled Burlington's 1,700 engineers and firemen, by last week had more than a two-thirds majority lined up in favor of a strike...
...adult education went 227,500 Carnegie dollars, of which it spent $750 on Southern Mountain whites and $5,000 on the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen...