Word: planning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Plumb's exposition in Phillips Brooks House yesterday of his railroad plan met with deserved approval. We congratulate Mr. Plumb upon the success of an excellent stump speech. Aside from a few well-worn jibes at "Wall Street journals" and "Capitalists," his explanation was moderate and in very good taste. But Mr. Plumb's project, stripped of his personality, remains as impracticable as ever...
...main features of the plan, government ownership, management by employees, and government payment of deficit, are all well known, and all three are pernicious. The first of these, government ownership, is a very dangerous principle in a democracy like the United States. Sooner or later the railroads would become the pawns of the political parties, both working for their control. The spoils system on a new and greater scale would be rejuvenated. Moreover, under this plan, the employees of the railroads would have effective control over the hours they work and over the pay they would receive for that work...
...Plumb, lawyer for the Railroad Brotherhoods and originator of the Plumb plan for the administration of the national railroad systems, will speak on the working of his plan before a meeting in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The meeting will be given under the auspices of the Graduates Schools Society of Phillips Brooks House, and is primarily intended for graduate students, but all members of the University are welcome...
Three-fifths of the men in the Freshman class, an absolutely unprecedented number, are actively engaged in organized athletics this autumn, as a result of the new plan of physical training for Freshmen inaugurated by the University. The other two-fifths are reporting three days a week to the instructors in physical training under the direction of William H. Geer, and tare taking part in games of their own choice...
...third of whom will be elected by the workingmen and two-thirds of whom will be elected or appointed by the railroad officials and by the government. This board will control the wage disputes, appoint sub-committees, and will appraise all land taken over by the railroads. The plan also includes arrangements by which the government shall pay for half of the expense of any new additions to the railroad system, and the community benefited shall pay for the other half. The profits are to be divided by further arrangement...