Word: shopmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge of the Federal District Court in Chicago issued a final decree making permanent the temporary injunction obtained by the Government last Fall against striking railroad shopmen. Many of the shopmen are back at work, but the strike is still theoretically in existence. Attorney General Daugherty: "Far-reaching consequences in peacefully maintaining law and order." Samuel Gompers: " Will have no influence upon railway shopmen...
Seventy cents an hour was the minimum wage fixed by the U. S. Railroad Labor Board for shopmen: machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, electricians, sheet metal workers, carmen...
Ninety cents an hour is the minimum demanded by the shopmen of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, with a minimum of 67 cents an hour for helpers. Similar demands are said to have been served on the New York Central System and the Baltimore and Ohio. The shopmen number 400,000. It is estimated that the contemplated increase will cost the roads $50,000,000 annually...
When Attorney General Daugherty secured a temporary Federal injunction against the striking shopmen in the great railway strike last Summer, all the Railroad Brotherhoods vowed revenge. They got up a movement to impeach Mr. Daugherty for malfeasance in office, but it collapsed without proving a single charge against him. Still they kept up a guerrilla shop strike on many roads and fought the issue with the best legal talent at their command, hoping to prevent the Attorney General from making the injunction permanent. Now-just as their case was about to be heard-the lawyers for the shopmen have...
...good deal of anxiety is evinced in official circles over the railway shopmen's wage dispute. The employers proposed an extensive reduction and, if it is enforced, it is feared that a general strike of railwaymen throughout Britain may ensue...