Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less angry was the fight over wage ceilings. Congress seemed set to pass a resolution by Missouri's Senator Harry S. Truman which would put into immediate effect an 8?-an-hour across-the-board rise for 1,100,000 railroad workers. This would wreck the authority of Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson, who turned the raise down five months ago. The Little Steel Formula's body was now being trampled by almost every union in the country, pressing hard for raises, on the heels of John L. Lewis...
After World War I, U.S. railroads were lazy from lack of competition. Their idea of what-to-do-about-the-postwar-travel-boom was to see if the traffic would bear a 20% increase in passenger fares. They found out: the U.S. automobile and bus industries, then in swaddling clothes, grew up almost overnight, while the railroads started down the long toboggan toward the almost bottomless pit of 1932.* Last week Railway Age, in its annual Passenger Progress issue, published a survey of what railroad executives propose to do for the postwar passenger this time. Their "practically unanimous opinion...
...refugee plants" from western Russia, the factory lies somewhere in a "deserted prairie valley"-presumably on the eastern fringe of European Russia. In some respects, the account resembled descriptions of new plants in U.S. boom towns. As yet the factory is unkempt and ragged. A railroad has been laid, but there are no busses or streetcars. In the spring and fall "it is no pleasant matter for the Workers to make their way home through the welling mud." But the vast factory hums with work, and thousands pass through its gates each shift. The buildings are camouflaged, for when they...
...Mariendorf after an R.A.F. night attack, and "it was a terrible mess." U.S. flyers whose route to the embarkation point lay through Augsburg, Berlin and Hamburg reported that Hamburg was "flat for miles and miles-a shambles." Eight British prisoners reported everything flattened on both sides of the railroad over a two-mile area in Frankfurt...
...real wildcat strikes could be expected from another railroad quarter. The 1,100,000 members of the 15 non-operating railroad unions (maintenance men, etc.) were just about as mad. To their demand for a 20?-an-hour wage increase, another Railway Labor panel countered with an increase of 8? an hour. By last week the "non-ops" having negotiated for 13 weary months, had not yet got up their nerve for a strike vote, had agreed to resubmit demands to a new panel...