Word: freighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mounted their cabs again. Trainmen went back to work. The gloom in roundhouses was brightened by the sudden yellow glare from fire doors. By midnight, on almost all the 337 strikebound roads, locomotives drummed through the darkness with throttles back and Johnson bars in the corner. More slowly, freight trains took up their grinding journeys. In railroad stations lines reformed at ticket windows. Baggage appeared; redcaps toiled. The Government turned the roads back to their owners...
...circuit-riding preacher in Iowa. Al had little schooling. At 15 he invested $2 in a basket of fruit and candy, boarded an Illinois Central train at Cherokee, and told the conductor that he was the new candy butcher. At 17 he was a brakeman, at 26 a freight conductor and a union member who applied evangelistic fervor to his fellow workers' grievances. He got on the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen's national payroll 43 years ago. He has never been off it (present salary: $17,500). He has bitterly fought his brotherhood's conservatives as well...
...here's another mighty important matter," boomed Jackson. "Say a freight engineer has to lay over in Ft. Scott 18 hours. For 16 of those hours he doesn't get paid. And for all practical purposes, he's working. He's on call all the time and he can't go out to a movie or even for a beer...
...those hours he gets paid at his regular rate-that is, unless he gets a fast, light freight back to K.C. and makes it in five hours instead of eight. Then the railroad doesn't pay him for the two hours penalty time. Why, I don't know. We're asking that the engineer gets paid for those two hours, no matter how fast he gets back to K.C. And we also want the penalty time to begin after twelve hours instead of after...
Jackson drew a long breath and Switchman Gunter took it up from there. "Suppose the dispatcher holds up a freight two or three hours before he gets a spot for it. The crew doesn't get paid the first 15 minutes he's fiddling around. And then there's this assigning crews to different types of work. Say a crew's worked eight hours on a packinghouse job and the yardmaster says to make up another train afterwards and it only takes two hours. We want eight hours pay for the second...