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George Plummer McNear Jr. does not believe in obeying a law that he hates. His 239-mile Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad was returned to him last October, after 42 months of Government operation under seizure. Immediately his union rail employes struck. The line has been strike-bound ever since. George McNear refused to negotiate". He said he would see the railroad and himself go broke first...
...Finish. State police found evidence that some pickets had brought guns to the scene, but no evidence that any had been used. Later that afternoon the four guards-all discharged servicemen, said by the union to have been paid $375 a month by George McNear-were charged with murder. The brotherhoods' leaders, offering to give evidence that McNear had transported the guns, demanded that he be arrested on the same charge...
Comeback by McNear. A federal judge decided that hefty, hustling George Plummer McNear Jr., president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R.R., was entitled to get his railroad back after three years of Government operation. Because he refused to grant the railroad brotherhoods a wage raise unless they gave up "featherbedding" (making jobs for themselves), T.P.& W. had a three months' strike...
...break the strike the Government kicked McNear out, seized his 239-mile freight line and still holds it, in spite of McNear's repeated claims of inefficiency under Government operation. Last week, a federal judge ruled that the T.P.& W. should have been returned to McNear in January 1944, when the War Department ordered all railroads returned to their owners. Now he had the law on his side. But he has still to recover his railroad...
...from the files of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Railroader McNear has been able to compare the results of Government operations v. his own management. To run the railroad the Government has 48.8% more employes, pays 35.3% more compensation. But with all this the Government has made only 3.3% more train-miles than during the last year McNear ran the road. And while the employes work one hour less than the 8½-hr. day they formerly put in, individually they earn less money-$7.96 per day v. the $8.75 McNear paid them...