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...delay. Almost by reflex, railroad union leaders grumbled about the plan. Cried Roy E. Davidson, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers: "This is not only compulsory arbitration, but compulsory arbitration with the added evil of an utterly unfair preferment for the demands of management. The ICC is biased against the labor organizations." But for the unions, the President's plan was actually a good deal. At the very least, it provided delay, and delaying management's proposed rules changes is the unions' essential goal...
Even as the troika-like International Control Commission of India, Poland, and Canada, which was set up to police Laotian neutrality, tried to restore the peace, it lost one of its three heads. Communist Poland recalled its ICC representative to Warsaw in the wake of vigorous U.S. protests that the Pole's "obstructionist tactics" and deliberate boycott of ICC field observation work were sabotaging efforts to maintain a cease-fire between the Neutralists and the Pathet...
...earth would want to pirate an empty boxcar? To hear the Interstate Commerce Commission tell it, many U.S. railroads would-and do. The ICC, at the urging of Midwestern roads, is knuckle-rapping some lines for holding onto boxcars from other lines for their own use. It has filed twelve suits against railroads and has five more upcoming, has already fined the Denver & Rio Grande for 14 violations. "Everybody's crying for boxcars," says Homer Wilson, superintendent of transportation for the Illinois Central...
...lack of rate reform largely results from the failure of the railroads to make any proposals to the ICC for modification of the rate structure. The present merger proceedings give the government an opportunity to require the railroads to prepare a thorough computation of their shipping costs and suggest possible rate changes. With the help of these suggestions the ICC could devise a whole new rate structure...
...railroads must address themselves to the problem of rates if they are to compete effectively in the future. The present merger crisis presents the ICC with a unique chance to force them...