Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Setting the Pattern. For the railroad industry, the North Western strike was likely to prove a turning point. Whatever settlement results from it will go far towards setting a pattern not only for railroad telegraphers but also for all other technologically obsolete railroad employees-including 45,000 "firemen" who ride diesel locomotives on the nation's freight trains and in switching yards...
...policies of the ICC and the Civil Aeronautics Board, which tend to approve mergers only if one of the partners is headed for bankruptcy. Just how vigorous the quarrel between unions and railroad management can be was shown last week, when the railroads proposed to lay off 40,000 firemen who, they say, are unnecessary aboard diesel locomotives. The five railroad brotherhoods countered by threatening to call a paralyzing nationwide strike. At week's end, the showdown was averted when the unions won a court order temporarily enjoining the railroads from firing the firemen...
...came the wild music of 300 Mariachi bands-along with the tootles of a platoon of organ grinders lined up at one intersection cranking out their own hurdy-gurdy serenade. As the presidential procession headed toward the Avenida de la Reforma, 10,000 troops presented arms, and rows of firemen snapped to salute with brass shovels. At historic Zocalo Square, the bells of the 16th century cathedral pealed a clarion welcome. And then came the confetti. 16 tons of the stuff, in a blizzard never before seen in Mexico...
...accepted, the agreement would indeed mark a breakthrough in a major labor-management problem: the "third-man theme" that plagues not only airlines but other industries such as the railroads, which are trying to eliminate the firemen riding in diesel cabs. Last week the nation's railroads broke off negotiations with five operating unions-for the second time-over moves to eliminate just such unnecessary jobs...
...during Michigan's coming gubernatorial race. The teetotaling Mormon, who recently resigned as American Motors boss, will reserve Sundays for "church and family." Democrats do not expect their incumbent Governor, John Swainson, to be quite that saintly, have scheduled a full list of Sunday appearances at church socials, firemen's outings and ward picnics...