Word: shopmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...