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...simplest terms, the issue was one which many other industries must confront in seeking automation. What should become of the men displaced by machines? Because of the change from steam to diesel engines, management contends that firemen are no longer needed. By employing these and other unnecessary men the railroads lose $600 million annually. Beset with competition from barges, trucks, and pipelines, management believes that the railroads cannot sustain these costs and survive. The unions, in opposing plans to eliminate the alleged waste of manpower, voice their concern for the welfare of their members...
...summer of 1960, both sides agreed to the appointment of a fifteen-man Presidential commission (five men each from labor and management and five neutrals, including John T. Dunlop, professor of Economics). This body studied the question for thirteen months before issuing a lengthy report which, in essence, considered firemen unnecessary on all except passenger trains. But the report also expressed a concern for those men now holding jobs. As a result, the Commission suggested the gradual elimination of most of their positions through attrition, while recommending benefits for those men with less seniority, who were to be removed...
Though Marlborough-Gerson is reputedly the world's largest gallery (11,000 sq. ft.), the place was so packed that at the height of the party, invited guests could not even get out of the elevator. Finally, firemen ordered the doors closed to newcomers until the crowd cleared. It was really too late. "You can't see the pictures," moaned a lovely thing in a floor-scraping green gown. "You can't even see the people. You can just feel them...
...teen-age free-for-all at Hampton Beach, N.H., in which the town police force had to be augmented by firemen, state troopers and military police, using fire hoses, tear gas and six police dogs...
...arbitration board to consist of two management members, two labor members and three public representatives. The board was given 90 days to dictate a settlement on two key issues between railway management and labor: the size of work crews, and the continued employment of some 32,000 unneeded firemen on diesel trains. The board's decisions, binding on both labor and management, would take effect in two more months...