Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such big bold words last week in Chicago, Alexander Fell Whitney, the professorial president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, got his fellow workers to join the four other big railroad operating unions to call for a general strike vote among their 350,000 members...
...strike, but a strike threat against the Government, or at least against its present Administration, was precisely what Alexander Whitney and the railroad unioneers wanted. Ten months ago, mindful that many war-plant workers were making more money than the highly skilled railroad men, the five unions had asked for a minimum $3-a-day wage increase. A special Government Railroad Labor panel, considering the case from every angle, after an interminable length of time gave them 4? an hour-32? a day-instead. Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson hurriedly approved the raise. But the unions cried "Insult," turned...
Threat or Reality? Since a general railroad strike is intolerable, no one seriously envisioned one. But the threat of wildcat strikes is real...
Before the Red tide swept him into power eight years later, Molotov had been arrested six times, exiled twice, escaped from exile once. He went underground, organized railroad workers, studied Marxism, made friends. Among the latter was a dark, sturdy Georgian named Stalin. Molotov helped Stalin to publish Pravda, then the official organ of the Bolshevik underground...
Died. Samuel Harden Church, 85, president of the philanthropic Carnegie Institute since 1914, upsetter of diplomatic apple carts; in Pittsburgh. Gaunt, vigorous Church rose from messenger boy to a Pennsylvania Railroad vice-presidency, was an original Institute trustee. By his indictment of Germany two weeks after the outbreak of World War I, Church became known as the first violator of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality proclamation. In May 1940, acting for fellow pillars-of-Pittsburgh, Church offered $1,000,000 for the delivery to a League of Nations courtroom of "Adolf Hitler . . . alive...