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After 15 years of argument, a railroad dispute came to a head last week: 18,000 firemen walked off the job on four of the country's biggest railroads...
...were the Pennsylvania west and north of Harrisburg, the New York Central west of Buffalo, the Southern, and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, plus, at week's end, 100 miles of Santa Fe track in California used by the Union Pacific. By this kind of piecemeal attack, the firemen tangled up the nation's heartland without causing a national emergency that might have brought the President into the fight...
...Third Man. The argument began around 1935 when imperious, pint-sized David Robertson, boss of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,* woke up to a new fact of industrial life. Oil-burning diesel engines, which railroads were using in increasing numbers, were being operated with only one man, an engineer. A lot of firemen were going to be out of work. Robertson demanded that a fireman be put on every diesel (to tend no fires, but to make an occasional check in the engine room, keep an eye on gauges, and help the engineer look out the window...
...deny waste and duplication" in my testimony before the Congress, but I could have argued that military hospitals are like manned firehouses. Municipalities employ firemen, and maintain costly equipment in comparative idleness for the sake of having a well-trained, well-equipped fire-fighting force in an emergency. Cities do not close down firehouses because they have suffered no recent holocausts...
Eleven hundred houses, a fourth of Atami, burned. So did 37 inns, six hospitals and the city hall. Eight hundred people were hurt. The mains were faulty and the firemen stoutly refused to use sea water; it might hurt their pumps...