Word: railroaded
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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...
...Plumb, your plan will not work. The country is not yet, and may it never be, reduced to the state where it is forced to accept such a settlement of its railroad problem...
...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...
...Plumb is a lawyer who has made a name for himself by taking sides against corporations on several occasions. Largely on this account his services were engaged by the Railroad Brotherhoods. It was while he was in their service that he and his associates conceived the plan for railroad administration that at present bears his name. He has come to Boston for an indefinite period, probably about a week. While here he will fill many speaking engagements throughout Greater, Boston in the interest of his plan...
...brief, this scheme provides for a national board of directors, one-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...