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...Adopted (191-to-1) a Senate resolution ordering the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate the feasibility of a six-hour day for railway workmen...
...Labor asked for a joint study of the feasibility of a six-hour working day. Management refused but in Washington the U. S. Senate ordered the Interstate Commerce Commission to look into the matter...
...committee of the A. of R. E. was making a rear-end attack on the carriers' financial troubles by a series of conferences with organized Labor. Into the New York, New Haven & Hartford's board room marched representatives of 21 railroad unions to ask for: 1) a six-hour day; 2) a billion-dollar U. S. bond issue to eliminate grade crossings; 3) Federal laws for accident indemnity, retirement insurance...
...Brotherhoods-410,000 engineers, firemen, trainmen, conductors) not so affiliated. In times of trouble the railroad unions work together, as in 1916 when they got the Adamson Act and the eight-hour day. Three weeks ago at the A. F. of L. convention in Vancouver these unions demanded a six-hour day to bring back to work some of the 250,000 workers laid off in the past year, and President William Green promised the movement the Federation's "full political & economic strength" (TIME, Oct. 19). Any suggestions of wage cuts heretofore have been answered by the railroad unions...
...racing trophy of North Atlantic fishing schooners, may be the last. When the series was over, Bluenose, Canadian defender sailed by Capt. Angus Walters, had beaten Capt. Ben Pine's Gertrude L. Thebaud in three races, one of which did not count because neither boat finished inside the six-hour limit for the race...