Word: firemen
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...prankster took advantage of the confusion and noise that resulted from the singing of German folksongs to insert a nail in the lock of the door, thus jamming it. The unfortunate victims, alarmed at the prospect of spending a night in the Tower, frantically summoned the firemen in the hopes that a ladder would extricate them from their embarrassment...
...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...
...resounding strike call read like a timetable. At 6 a.m. on Dec. 7 the five railway brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) would walk out on the Santa Fe, Rock Island, New York Central, Denver & Rio Grande, Katy, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, 44 other lines. Next day they would quit on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, the Gulf Coast lines, 40 others. By the third day, on 156 roads that carry passengers, food, coal, machinery and mail from New England to California, from Florida to Washington, not a wheel would turn...
...independent railroad brotherhoods-which were well established unions when A.F. of L. was a pup and C.I.O. unborn-are no young radicals. Under the brotherhoods' own seniority rules, railroading is no longer a young man's game; the ranks of the nation's engineers, firemen and conductors are full of wise old grey heads, and the shrinking number of railroad jobs has kept youngsters from joining their ranks...
...labor. Even since the decline of the railroads began two decades ago and wage scales began rising in other industries, they are still substantial, well-paid citizens with economic views well to the right of center. On Class I roads full-time engineers average $288 a month, conductors $267, firemen $220. They own their own homes, pay taxes, send their children to college. Many a railroad man votes the straight Republican ticket...