Word: firemanning
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From the University's standpoint student fire education does not necessarily mean public service. This is due to the perennial menace of the volunteer fireman who belongs to the inebriated or unique sense of humor category. Four extinguishers were refilled yesterday because of week-end activity by this group. Veritable chaos would undoubtedly result from false alarms were officials to make extensive additions to the present stock of boxes...
...Arkansas. Last September some 400 of its engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors walked out on strike. Demanding restoration of a wage agreement abrogated in 1933, they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope, Ark. and New Orleans...
Picketing was peaceful for three weeks. Then trouble popped. A train ran through an open switch, killing two of the crew. Three bridges burned. The strikers' womenfolk got hungry. At Minden, La. 200 of them swarmed on a train, stripped and beat the fireman, made the engineer telegraph his resignation to President Peter Couch...
...Hustler rolled down the tracks near Winnfield one midnight last week shotguns flashed in a bordering wood, ten loads of buckshot poured into the tram, killed a guard, wounded the engineer and fireman. Unintimidated President Couch set guards and inspectors patrolling the line from Shreveport to New Orleans, posted $5,000 reward for the murderers. While rumors crackled the Federal Government might take a hand because of interference with the mails, the National Mediation Board proclaimed its hands tied because of President Couch's refusal to arbitrate. Hopefully Louisiana's rotund Governor Leche called a peace conference...
Searchers found the engineer dead, the fireman dying. A broken neck killed a young doctor from Brooklyn. Thirty-one other passengers were hospitalized. Two were found so critically hurt that they...