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Last week the oil paradox hurried the whole transport problem on its urgent way to the President's lap. He would have to find a hemisphere-minded Transport Coordinator; Railroader Ralph Budd admitted that his resignation was in the President's hands. Week before. ICC Sage Joseph B. Eastman warned the railroads that if their service breaks down, the Government may take them over again, as in World...
Once back in Chicago, however, Congressman Mitchell wheeled around and turned around, jumped Jim Crow with a vengeance. The Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, and the Pullman Co. found themselves on the receiving end of a $50,000 suit. Further, he filed a complaint with ICC. Last week, four years and seven days after his ejection from the Pullman, the complaint was upheld by a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court, which made it plain that the railroads would have to provide equal accommodations for blacks and whites...
...stepped up to a less active chairmanship, turned over the throttle to Western Union's Roy Barton White. Oldest R.R. president in the U.S., he had headed B. & 0. for 31 years, was the last link between the days of Harriman-Hill-Gould and the regulation-cramped ICC. But spry Uncle Dan hated to knock off. Said he: "I wish I were only 60 and could keep on. I love...
...mine-mouth price of coal, and Southern mine operators insist that so long as they have to pay more freight they must pay less wages. Last week President Roosevelt indicated that the whole question of freight rates in the South might be reopened: he told a press conference that ICC was looking into the matter...
...they could not compete with Northern coal, mined closer to the nation's great industrial markets. For years Southern operators have fought for lower freight rates, protested that they suffer from unfair freight differentials. Last year they maintained that freight differentials discriminated against them, tried unsuccessfully to have ICC cut Chesapeake & Ohio's rate 50%. Railroad executives answer that mile for mile the Southern mines enjoy the lowest freight tariffs in the world. But the fact remains that the cost averages 35? a ton more to move coal to tidewater and Great Lakes regions from Virginia, eastern Kentucky...