Word: mcnear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proposition. To the Brotherhoods' demands for wage boosts, McNear counter-proposed "a day's work for a day's pay." In cash per envelope, this meant more pay, not less. Engineers would get $13.44 a day v. $11.57 under Brotherhood rules, firemen $10.41 v. $9.46, etc. But because idle "standby" workers would be eliminated, it meant fewer jobs. McNear ran his road with 55 crewmen a day at the very time the Brotherhoods were insisting it took...
...McNear and the Brotherhoods snorted and haggled for a year. Neither budged an inch. Meanwhile McNear scrapped with the National Mediation Board, the U.S. Conciliation Service, the ODT, the National War Labor Board. His battle cry: "It is high time that someone, somewhere made a start. . . . The mere fact that an employe rides around on a train should not give him the right to fleece the railroads and the shipping public...
Last December, 105 engineers and train-men struck. Amid riots, shootings, burnings, loss of business, McNear tried to break the strike, ran a big help-wanted ad, got 1,000 applicants within a few days. He even got an injunction. Three Brotherhood men were convicted of conspiring to blow up one of T. P. & W.'s biggest bridges. When Government agencies told McNear to arbitrate, he refused, on the ground that the mediation boards were grossly prolabor...
...Exit McNear. Last March McNear pulled his most ruggedly individualistic boner. As defense traffic got snarled on his strike-bound railroad (over 150 cars were tied up at one time), he waited three days to answer President Roosevelt's personal appeal for a settlement, then sent a bitterly phrased 5,000-word telegram to the White House-collect. Two days later the Government collared T.P. & W., ousted McNear, put in as Federal Manager John Walker Barriger III, associate ODT director...
Since then peace and traffic have returned to T.P. & W. Because there was nothing wrong with the road's equipment or finances, Barriger's biggest job has been to restore confidence among shippers, many of whom think McNears aims were fine, his methods not. Last week Barriger reported an April gross of $210,000, twice the January total but still below last year. Barriger has rehired all strikers, kept those hired by McNear during the strike, given up picking at the featherbeds...