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EVERETT L. HARKNESS Fireman...
Scarcely a month had gone by since 17-year-old William Buie, fireman third class, was transferred from a harbor-bound oiler to a rolling, seagoing Navy destroyer, and ex-Farm Boy (Mulberry, Fla.) Buie was one seasick bluejacket. One night last week, when his ship, U.S.S. Arnold J. Isbell, was rocking along 60 miles southwest of San Diego, Buie went topside to watch a movie. He was still pretty green around the gills, so he wobbled aft to smoke a cigarette. On the port quarter, he leaned over the side. As he leaned, the ship rolled-and over, into...
...shack in the railroad yards at Antigo, Wis. last week sat four railroadmen: a fireman, a conductor, a brakeman and a flagman. All together, they collect pay totaling $110 a day, not counting fringe benefits. Their job: doing nothing. Earlier this year, the Chicago & North Western Railroad decided to eliminate one of the two switching locomotives at Antigo because there was not enough work to keep them busy. But the road may not remove the idled crew without union permission, and permission had not been given...
Management proposes to raise the mileage limit to 160 miles per day, thus cutting out many "division stops" and reducing the number of employees necessary. They also hope to save $200 million annually by eliminating the position of fireman, as was done after a prolonged strike on the Canadian Pacific Railway last year...
Most people think of the man with two jobs as a relatively underpaid worker who is forced to moonlight to pay the household bills. The cop and the fireman, who get as little as $2,400 annually, wash windows and work as handymen for a few extra dollars a week: the $3,000-a-year schoolteacher drives an ice-cream truck to send his son to college. But the biggest moonlighter of them all is the airline pilot, that rugged capitalist of the sky, who makes as much as $30,000 a year (as a jet captain) and spends...