Word: shopmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposing elements. The fact, however, that the increase was so large is surprising." Railway shopmen, maintenance of way employes, clerks and telegraphers, have in recent months asked for pay increases which in a few cases were granted by employers. Other cases are to appear before the Mediation Board. There remain the engineers and firemen. Eastern firemen want $1 a day more; Southeastern engineers a general 15% boost. They have made claims on individual employers, but have not yet come to discussion. Canadian railroaders threatened a strike last week. But the smoothness of the U. S. arbitration made them pause...
...Vice President is one of the most outspoken enemies of Labor and is the founder of an organization dedicated to the task of writing, into all political platforms, planks calling for the anti-union shop?an organization which also encouraged and supported the Daugherty injunction against the railroad shopmen...
...plain provisions of the law and the constitution. The test of democracy is not obedience to a law we all favor, it is our attitude to a law we may not like. Even if we don't like the 18th amendment, let's obey it. We asked the railroad shopmen, a year ago, to obey an act of Congress which placed the adjustment of their wages in the bands of the Railroad Wage Board and our attorney general declared them rebels against the government if they refused. They undoubtedly thought they were out for a living wage and decent living...
...become apparent. Although the gross business of the roads as a rule reflects their record volume of traffic, higher expenses here prevented any great growth of net earnings, and in some cases even decreased them. The purchase of new equipment as well as the lasting effects of the shopmen's strike have more than offset the increased gross earnings of the early Summer...
...even through the Summer slackness to run at almost record figures, with yet heavier traffic anticipated by everyone for the Fall. Thus far, too, the railroads have handled a tremendous year's business with ease and comparatively little congestion, despite the inferior condition of equipment caused by the shopmen's strike a year...