Word: esch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passage of the Esch-Cummins railway bill by decisive majorities in both houses of Congress is an indication of what Congress can produce in an eleventh-hour emergency, and the general opinion of the measure in Congress is voiced by Senator Williams of North Carolina, who said, "It contained several things I did not like, but its passage was essential to the return to private control...
...bill is a compromise in very many respects. It contains the financial clauses of the Senate bill proposed by Senator Cummins and the labor clauses of the House bill supported by Representative Esch. The Senate bill provided a minimum return of five and one half per cent on the true value of the property, while the House bill had no minimum return provision. On the other hand, Senator Cummins ant-strike provision was removed in favor of the provision of the House bill which creates n arbitration board of the usual kind, employer and employee equally represented, and a third...