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Negotiations began in November 1959, bogged down in a year of bickering and mutual charges of failure to bargain in good faith. Toward the end of 1960, both parties asked President Eisenhower to appoint a commission to study the dispute. Ike created the Rifkind Commission, headed by onetime Federal Judge Simon Rifkind. After 14 months of hearings and on-the-rails investigations, the commission issued a report recommending extensive revisions in work rules and wage-base formulas...
February. With its five labor members dissenting, the Rifkind commission submits to President Kennedy a report calling for sweeping changes in work rules...
February-November. Chaired by Lawyer Simon Rifkind, the commission chugs along, amassing a record of 15,306 pages, plus 20,319 pages of exhibits...
July. The railroads serve notice that they will put the Rifkind-commission recommendations into effect within 30 days. The unions sue in federal court to derail the plan...
...report to the President, the Rosenman board in effect upholds the Rifkind-commission findings. The railroads accept the Rosenman recommendations. The unions reject them. At the urging of the Administration, the two sides resume negotiations, this time in Washington...