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...question: Could Fireman Gilbert's coal-car "bed" on the cover of the same issue suggest Mr. Frommer's grisly $5-a-day "amenities" for innocents abroad...
Willie Glass, 60, a garbage man in Atlanta for many years and then unemployed for a spell, recently got a new job as a fireman on a Southern Railway diesel locomotive. On his first day at work, a supervisor showed him where to sit in the cab of the locomotive and where to find the toilet. Glass already feels confident he can perform a fireman's duties. "I don't do nothin'," he says. "I just...
...independent track, the Southern withdrew from the 195-company united front that U.S. railroads have presented in their work-rules battle with five railroad operating unions. Instead, the Southern has carried on its own fight in its own way against outmoded work rules, particularly the rule requiring a fireman in the cab of every diesel locomotive. Says an executive of the 100%-diesel Southern: "We need locomotive firemen about like we need camel watchers...
...more than three years, Southern hired no new firemen. The union, preoccupied with its national struggle, did not go to court about the Southern until last September. After an involved wrangle, the union obtained a federal court decision requiring the Southern to abide by the old rule-a fireman on every diesel-until the dispute is decided by the National Railroad Adjustment Board...
Befogged Future. Under the President's plan, the railroads may petition the ICC to establish new rules in the hottest area of dispute, notably the question of whether a fireman will continue riding in the cab of every diesel train, doing no necessary work. The commission must consider the findings of the presidential panels that have already exhaustively examined these issues and decided them in favor of management. The ICC is to act within 120 days "or as soon thereafter as is practicable"-a broad franchise for stalling...