Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transportation law was enacted which created the Railroad Labor Board, a board composed of representatives of the carriers, of their employes and of the public, with power to settle railroad labor disputes...
Last week the scheme was completed. Representatives of both parties called at the White House and presented their plan. They were W. W. Atterbury, President of the Pennsylvania; W. N. Doak, official representative of the Railroad Trainmen; D. B. Robertson, President of the Firemen and Enginemen; B. M. Jewell, President of the Railway Employes Department, A. F. of L. Later Senator Jim Watson, of Indiana, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, dined at the White House. Then he introduced into the Senate a bill embodying the scheme...
...does away with the Railroad Labor Board...
...British Labor Party has been sent on to its present power by a spiritual, not a material urge", said Mr. Albert Mansbridge in an informal lecture at the Union last night. Mr. Mansbridge, who educated himself while working in a railroad signal tower by rewriting Shakespeare's "Tempest" 1000 times, spoke of the tremendous thirst for education possessed by the British working classes...
...year 1863 saw the introduction of the dining car and the block signal system, the first Bessemer rails imported from England and the organization of the first railroad brotherhood-that of Locomotive Engineers. In 1868 came the first Westinghouse airbrake, and in 1872 the first time-table convention and the first electric lights in coaches. In 1883 Standard Time was adopted. Not until 1895 was electrification of steam railroads begun-in the New Haven and B. & O. tunnels...