Word: firemanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also Ran. In Decatur, Ill., Fireman Henry J. Sturkee gave evidence before the city council to prove that Decatur needs a new fire truck: two boys on bicycles, he said, passed him while he was racing to a fire as fast as the 23-year-old truck would...
...Higher pay. 2. Larger old-age pensions. 3. Another fireman on diesel engines. 4. Higher accident insurance. 5. Longer vacations...
...Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,* woke up to a new fact of industrial life. Oil-burning diesel engines, which railroads were using in increasing numbers, were being operated with only one man, an engineer. A lot of firemen were going to be out of work. Robertson demanded that a fireman be put on every diesel (to tend no fires, but to make an occasional check in the engine room, keep an eye on gauges, and help the engineer look out the window). The railroads agreed...
Then the firemen reached out for another concession-a second fireman in every diesel engine crew. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had been trying to get in on the deal, arguing that there should be a second engineer. The railroads turned both brotherhoods down, on the ground that their demands were out & out featherbedding. Over a period of six years three presidential boards had a careful look at the facts, decided that the brotherhoods were unreasonable. Railroads estimated that adding a third man would cost them at least $40 million a year...
...Engineer Jones's honor, the Jackson post office put on sale special 3? stamps with his picture and that of the locomotive that Casey drove on his last ride. After a parade and concert, aged (76) Sim Webb, who had sat on the fireman's side of the Cannonball Express cab that night, rose and told again how he had jumped to safety before the crash. Casey's widow Janie, eightyish but still perky enough to relish an occasional nip of bourbon, also had her say. She indignantly denied the song lines attributed...