Word: railroader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woolen workers walked off their jobs. The autoworkers considered that a wage formula which did not allow a cost-of-living clause in their contracts left them free to walk out. The WSB fight would make it harder than ever to reach an agreement on the still-unsettled railroad wage fight...
...Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen also drew a stinging and costly rebuke this week. In Washington, Federal Judge Edward A. Tamm slapped a $75,000 fine on the brotherhood after it pleaded guilty to contempt of court for pulling its paralyzing "sick" strike (TIME, Feb. 19) in defiance of a federal injunction. Said Judge Tamm: "If unions are to continue to grow and prosper they must accept their responsibilities as well as their rights...
...until last December, when a group of indignant workers quietly laid the whole thing before postal authorities. Fortnight ago, Boston's Chief Post Office Inspector Tennyson Jefferson and 42 inspectors swooped down on the annex. Though they had picked a bad night (business was slack because of the railroad strike), they found 28 time cards punched for men who never showed up, and enough evidence to convince them that the Government had been bilked out of between $4 and $5,000,000 in the last four years...
...Illinois Central has been a Harriman road ever since. Union Pacific Railroad Co., of which E. Roland Harriman is chairman, has working control of the stock...
...Great Missouri Raid (Paramount) is a pseudohistorical western that whitewashes the Jesse James gang in bright Technicolor. An earlier version of the desperado's career, 1939's moneymaking Jesse James, depicted the James boys as victims of a land-grabbing railroad which forced them into a life of crime. In the new vogue for brewing westerns out of the backwash of the Civil War, they become Southern martyrs hounded by a vindictive Yankee major...