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...many businessmen, one good example of professionalism was Johnson's success in settling the long and complicated railroad labor hassle-and doing so without visibly bruising anyone. About 5,000 railroad firemen stand to lose their jobs immediately under terms of the Compulsory Arbitration law, whose constitutionality was upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, but most will get severance checks or other railroad jobs. Labor chiefs applauded Johnson's concern for the displaced workers, and businessmen generally agreed that he had not overstepped the bounds of collective bargaining by persuasively pushing the settlement. Says Santa...
Actually, a big step was taken last November under an arbitration award by a panel created by the Congress. It granted carriers the right to eliminate gradually 90% of the firemen on diesels, along with unneeded trainmen, including some brakemen and switchmen. This reduction of up to 40,000 employees would save the carriers about $325 million a year. The unions have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Healy, who served on the arbitration panel established by Congress to resolve the issues of crew size and firemen, said that johnson's intervention and personal attention "almost on a hourly basis" had brought about the first true bargaining between railroads and unions since the dispute began nearly five years...
...threatened strike lay almost five years of inflexible dispute. The railway carriers have long insisted on their right to change the "work rules" for employees. Basically, this meant that management wanted to end the featherbedding practices for which the railway brotherhoods are notorious-such as their insistence upon "firemen" on diesel engines...
...Democratic gubernatorial nomination, who went on local television to deliver a stern ultimatum. "There will be no more demonstrations like last week," he declared. "They will not be tolerated." At the same time, in his capacity as police and fire commissioner, Burns deputized Jacksonville's 496 firemen as special police...