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When the depression flattened the auto business, Budd's loss snowballed to $1,785,000. To keep his shopmen busy, Budd began building lightweight railroad passenger cars, using the company's patented "Shotweld" process for joining stainless steel sheets. Roads bought the cars eagerly, but Edward Budd spent money hand over fist experimenting on such products as stainless steel masts for ships...
...year ago, unions representing some 1,000,000 non-operating railroad workers (clerks, shopmen, telegraphers, etc.) demanded a 40-hour, five-day week (instead of a 48-hour, six-day week), a "third-round" 25?-an-hour wage boost, extra pay for Saturdays and Sundays. Negotiations were soon mired in argument. After mid-January the unions had the right to strike. Instead they continued to negotiate...
...Fort Worth-Houston and Chicago-St. Paul trains were running on a 66.6-m. p. h. schedule; Union Pacific-Chicago & North Western's two City of Denver trains were averaging 65.4 between Chicago and Denver. Meanwhile, the low maintenance requirement of Diesel-light equipment was making shopmen's eyes pop. As of Oct. 1 the two City of Denver trains had run 1,147,029 miles without ever having been laid up for shop repairs. Southern Pacific's Daylights and most other streamliners had comparable records...
When U. S. railroads returned to private hands after the War, the Transportation Act of 1920 created a U. S. Railroad Labor Board of nine. Woodrow Wilson's sensible appointees were soon succeeded by the patronage appointees of Warren Harding. A strike of 400,000 railroad shopmen in 1922 thoroughly exposed the board's incompetence and in 1926 the Railway Labor Act replaced it with a five-man U. S. Board of Mediation. This failed to succeed because the law provided no penalties for evasion of the board's decisions and because Calvin Coolidge's appointees...
During this week both teams have won smashing victories in the Greater Boston League. The Independents whitewashed the Malcolm Hill Sports team 10-0, and the Tennis and Squash Shopmen lmitated the feat in trouncing the Arlington squad...