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Four Is More than Ten. At the core of the dispute are the "work rules" that the operating rail unions got from management in the course of three generations of strikes, strike threats and negotiations. Technology has outmoded many of the rules. Firemen used to shovel coal on steam locomotives; on today's diesels a fireman still rides along in the cab, doing no necessary work. The pay scale of many railroad workers is based on the quaint rule that a man gets a full day's pay for 100 miles of travel, with the result that...
...railroads charge that the work rules add up to "featherbedding," impose extra costs of $600 million a year. The companies want to revise the rules, gradually unload 65,000 workers, mainly firemen, and switch to a more realistic wage basis. The five operating unions say they will strike the moment the railroads put their proposed new rules into effect...
...agreement. J. E. ("Doc") Wolfe, chief negotiator for all of the 195 companies involved, said at a press conference that the unions were still trying hard to "blackjack" the railroads into an agreement. H. E. ("Ed") Gilbert, president of the 80,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, declared in a speech that "management's attitude of 'no bargaining' has brought the collective bargaining process in our industry to the brink of destruction...
...Shrivers now rent a 14-room farm home on 30 acres in Rockville, Md. They entertain visiting firemen and corpsmen with vigorous hours of softball, touch football and swimming. Shriver is a good tennis player, easily beats Bobby, who is the Kennedy clan's best. He is also an art connoisseur, has a diversified personal collection including Salvador Dali, Kenzo Okada...
From every direction, patrol cars with singing sirens poured into the area. Firemen wearing their full gear pulled up with a truck and got ready to use their hoses. The cops barricaded the streets. Pushing, clubbing, shoving, cursing, they beat their way through the throngs, filled their paddy wagons with the Negroes and drove them off to jail...