Word: esch
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...immediate reduction of the cost of living. But the cost of living has steadily advanced, and the restless discontent of the men has increased as they have watched the garment workers, coal miners and other classes receive substantial increases in wages. The Federal Board, provided for by the Esch-Cummings Act two months ago, was not even appointed until the country was in the grip of the outlaw strike, and so far it has produced no constructive results. In the meantime the traffic tie-up caused by the strike continues critical. All the workmen, even the Brotherhoods themselves, are losing...
When Congress passed the Esch-Cummins railroad bill last February it eliminated the anti-strike provision because of the protests of the union leaders that such action was not only un-American but unnecessary inasmuch as the railroad brotherhoods were responsible organizations. They maintained that the Big Four unions would quash any strike but those entered upon only after the greatest deliberation and after every means of arbitration and peaceful settlement had been exhausted. On the strength of this assertion the anti-strike provision was abandoned. Today the country is inconvenienced--tomorrow it may be strangled--by an outlaw strike...
...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...