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...sleep a night and in the mornings the knives sometimes tremble in his hands. He smokes too many cigarettes. This again is not heroic. People are sick and people are poor and other people take care of them. This, too, is stinking and sweaty. And yet in the town shopmen call him "Doc" and slip an extra carton of cigarettes in his box of provisions. In mud time when the Ford slips into a pot hole, a team is hitched on to the front "ax" and the farmer forgets to ask for his three dollars. It really is not very...
Labor is a behemoth which never forgets. When President Hoover appointed Federal Judge James Herbert Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago last winter (TIME, Jan. 25 ), Labor bitterly recalled that it was this same Judge Wilkerson whose mandate smashed the great railway shopmen's strike of 1922. At the request of Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, Judge Wilkerson. just appointed by President Harding, issued a sweeping injunction restraining strikers all over the nation from meeting, picketing, agitating against their employers. The struggle to prevent the Senate's confirmation of Judge Wilkerson to the appellate court has been...
...that, effective Jan. 1, 15,000 shopmen on the Southern Pacific accepted a voluntary pay cut of 10% for one year, with the understanding that no further reduction would be made irrespective of the outcome of the Chicago meeting. Simultaneously the Southern Pacific served notice of 15% reductions on its other organized employes. Many a line had already done likewise as a precaution against a deadlock at Chicago...
...tracks man, he enjoys the unanimous respect of organized railroad Labor. On his own line this takes the form of something approximating beatification. The judgment of B. & O. employes on him is: "One square guy!" Many a road used President Willard's "B. & O. Plan" to settle the shopmen's strike of 1922. As they prepared to sit down and thresh out together the first major wage problem since 1916, workers and operators of 249,000 U. S. rail miles felt that if anyone could oil the way to a solution it was Daniel Willard...
...sent Capone's brother Ralph to the penitentiary for three years for income tax evasion. A Harding appointee in 1922, Judge Wilkerson sprang immediately into national prominence less than two months after he mounted the bench by granting a sweeping injunction (framed by then Attorney General Daugherty) against railway shopmen in the great strike that year. Fingering the ribbon of his glasses with an air of abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses...