Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Republicans. "The Republican Convention gave Labor's representatives a brief and curt hearing. The Republican platform ignores entirely the injunction issue. It fails to deal with Labor's right to organize or the right of the workers, even in self-defense, collectively to cease work. That platform sustains the Railroad Labor Board, with all that it means in the direction of governmental coercion of wage-earners. It fails to recommend the ratification by the States of the Child Labor Constitutional Amendment...
...candidate for Vice President is one of the most outspoken enemies of Labor and is the founder of an organization dedicated to the task of writing, into all political platforms, planks calling for the anti-union shop?an organization which also encouraged and supported the Daugherty injunction against the railroad shopmen...
...Convention an extended hearing was granted. The Democratic platform pledges that party to legislation to regulate hours and conditions of all labor, a proposal against which the American Federation of Labor has struggled throughout its whole history. It is silent as to the injunction. It does not meet the Railroad Labor Board issue. On that point it is so equivocal that the enemies of Labor may well feel that their desires will be met. It, too, fails to recommend the ratification by the States of the Child Labor Constitutional Amendment...
...pledges abolishment of the Railroad Labor Board. It pledges a measure to annul the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws permanently unconstitutional...
...some time conferences between the leading trunk-line railroads into New York have been going on. They have been held alternately in the headquarters of the Pnnsylvania and the New York Central, and besides the representatives of those roads, officials of the B. & O. and the Van Sweringens, heads of the new "Nickel Plate" merger, have attended. The inclusion of the latter, incidentally, proves that they have "arrived" in the railroad sense...