Word: pelley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of President Pelley's 400 employes-half in Washington, half out-are busy keeping tabs on the country's 1,800,000 freight cars. One of their chores is to gather vital statistics of car loadings. The most notable industrial achievement of President Pelley's two years has been the so-called "average" plan for settling car hire between railroads and reducing profitless hauling and switching of empty cars. The A.A.R.'s car service division referees this activity, which now saves U. S. roads $12,000,000 a year...
...John Pelley's two biggest functions, however, are fronting for the roads before Congress and Labor. In the first capacity he is ably assisted by Robert Virgil Fletcher, a courtly onetime Mississippi judge whose dignity and patience have made him popular with Congressional committees. Now 67, sharp of wit, lucid in explanation, Lawyer-Lobbyist Fletcher heads A.A.R.'s legal department, likes to make speeches like the one he gave last week in St. Paul against government regulation and government ownership. Currently A.A.R. is lobbying, with the support of Labor, for the repeal of the "long-&-short haul" clause...
...John Pelley, the A.A.R. and most railroad men are nowadays receiving their worst Labor headache from the pension problem. The first railroad pension plan was knocked out by the Supreme Court. Promptly passed was another one which has not yet reached the Supreme Court but was held unconstitutional by a lower court. Meantime the railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association have been trying to get together on a mutually acceptable agreement to obviate the necessity of further legislation. They are split on a number of details, chiefly on whether the retirement...
Another attempt to settle the pension problem was made last week over a conference table in an office next to President Pelley's. On one side of the table sat Management in the person of Mr. Pelley, backstopped by such railroad notables as Erie's Charles Eugene Denney, Pennsylvania's Martin Withington Clement, Illinois Central's Downs, Union Pacific's Carl Raymond Gray, Santa Fe's Samuel Thomas Bledsoe, St. Paul's Henry Alexander Scandrett. On the other side of the table sat able, popular Chairman George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor...
...good the boys or the gods would continue to be to U. S. railroading, stocky, optimistic John Pelley cannot say. Ahead of him is not only the pension snarl and the demand for wage increases, but also a battle for a revision of freight rates to give his carriers more revenue. But John Pelley is no worrier. Said he in the worst of hard times: "Get me right. I'm not going to talk bullish. Nothing like that. I can't see myself sitting on a pink cloud right now. But people are overdoing this pessimism." Today, with...