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...year has passed since George Plummer McNear Jr. lost his fight against the Railroad Brotherhoods, and in doing so lost his Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad to Government operation (TIME...
...another name for G. P. McN. (George Plummer McNear Jr.), who owns it-track, ties & rolling stock (TIME, May 18). As a result of last week's decision by a Government-appointed arbitrator, G. P. McN. will have to pay $3,200 a month more in wages, and the Government has still got his railroad. But the sacrosanct featherbed rules of the Railroad Brotherhoods-the rules which make the carriers pay for all sorts of unnecessary work-had taken a disastrous shaking...
...made his big mistake. He found, as Air Associates (TIME, Nov. 10) had found before him, that beating a strike is not healthy so long as the Administration feels the way it does about labor and has wartime powers with which to crack down. After George McNear had refused to arbitrate (as the Brotherhoods had refused to arbitrate with the railroads a year before), President Roosevelt declared that there was an "emergency" on the G. P. McN. This was startling: the road was running, it was paying high wages, it even had a waiting list of men who wanted jobs...
...beam soon vanished. The Government as successor of G. P. McN. agreed to arbitration. At hearings in Chicago during May and June some amazing figures came out: under McNear's "day's work for a day's pay," T.P. & W.'s wage bill in April was $18,478. The Office of Defense Transportation figured out that under Brotherhood rules the bill would have been $56,711. Badly jolted by this noncooperative ODT attitude, the Brotherhoods finally said their wage bill would have been $31,000 (still 70% over McNear's figure). The Government-appointed arbitrator...
...arbitrator last week finally settled with the Brotherhoods, but most of the stuffing had been taken out of their featherbed. The Brotherhoods were awarded wage rates and working rules which would have put the April payroll at $21,678-$3,200 more than McNear's operating cost...