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...would retire-as he has for many years. Secretary-Treasurer George Meany, 57, pompously chomping a cigar, was still waiting patiently to take over Green's job. No noisy battles disturbed the convention calm. "We've been around a long time," explained President George Harrison of the Railway Clerks' union. "We know each other too well to get excited." The convention yawned through dull speeches and rubber-stamped everything the executive council and committees offered...
...Paul Katscher, a railway official seized by Russian officers in 1947, while he was negotiating with the occupation powers for the return of "liberated" freight cars to Austria. Reported Moscow: Katscher, convicted of sabotage, had died in a Soviet jail June...
Goodman found a hotel where he slept for an hour and a half. He returned to the American delegation, found everyone still asleep, took his bag and made his way to the nearest elevated railway station...
Goodman found a hotel where he slept for an hour and a half. He returned to the American delegation, found everyone still asleep, took his bag and made his way to the nearest elevated railway station...
Nine months ago a kind of companionate marriage was arranged between the A.F.L. and the C.I.O. Along with railway labor leaders, they formed the United Labor Policy Committee to present a solid front in Washington on mobilization policies. The U.L.P.C. wielded considerable influence in Washington, helped push through the new wage policy, and seemed to be there to stay. But last week, as the family settled down around the conference table, the A.F.L. members confirmed reports that they were filing for immediate divorce...