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...Garrett, 50, a Pittsburgh lawyer who earned his reputation as an arbitrator in steel industry disputes and was appointed three weeks ago by President Kennedy to end a month-long telegraphers' strike against the C. & N.W. (The other two members of the arbitration board-C. & N.W. Chairman Ben Heineman and Telegraphers' President George Leighty-canceled each other out.) The essence of Garrett's decision was that al though the C. & N.W. must discuss proposed layoffs with the union, the final decision would be the railroad's alone. To soften the blow to the union, the railroad...
...decision will have little immediate impact at the C. & N.W., where tough-minded Ben Heineman, who has already eliminated 600 telegraphers, plans to keep on all but 70 of the remaining 1,000 anyway. But in the long run it marked a stunning setback for the telegraphers. A year ago, Leighty's union extracted from the giant Southern Pacific a virtual guarantee to keep on all its telegraphers until their death or retirement and, with that encouragement, the telegraphers have since demanded a veto over job cutbacks on 33 other railroads. Now Garrett's decision rather than...
Chairman Ben Heineman nor Telegraphers' Chief George E. Leighty would yield on the strike's key question: the union's demand for the right to veto future job cutbacks. This and other unresolved issues will be submitted to binding arbitration this week by a three-man team (Heineman, Leighty and Lawyer Sylvester Garrett, chairman of the U.S. Steel-Steelworkers' arbitration board). The arbitrators will probably hew to a policy recommended by an Administration fact-finding board last June. It proposed union-management consultation on payroll cutbacks, came out against a union veto, but urged adequate compensation...
...plead in vain with the telegraphers not to strike. Last week his successor. W. Willard Wirtz, who used to ride the North Western home from work every day when he was Adlai Stevenson's law partner, was also getting nowhere. At week's end, as Ben Heineman riffled through mounds of letters from his commuters urging him to hold fast, the telegraphers dug in for a long siege. At that point, the liberal Milwaukee Journal was reminded of the arrogant legacy of one of U.S. railroading's 19th century buccaneers, William H. Vanderbilt. Hooted the Journal...
...telegraphers, 1,000 strong on the North Western, make this demand: no job that existed on Dec. 3. 1957, can be abolished unless the union agrees. "Indefensible featherbedding," snaps North Western Chairman Ben W. Heineman. 48, onetime corporation lawyer who became boss of the road in 1956 and has shoved it intermittently into the black by consolidating lines and eliminating stations, cutting money-losing runs and reducing jobs-including those of 600 telegraphers, who presumably would collect new jobs or plump payoffs if the union wins. A presidential emergency board recommended last June that the telegraphers drop their demand...