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Grim-faced in Chicago last week sat Board Chairman Dr. William Morris Leiserson, his fellow members, Otto Sternoff Beyer and George Cook. Grim also was the Pennsylvania's H. A. Enochs, chairman of the committee of 15 representing the railroads, which maintained, as they had from the first, that a wage reduction was "necessary, justified, and inevitable." Grimmest of all were President George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association (775,000 union men) and President Alexander F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (150,000 members). Labormen Harrison and Whitney, despite a quarrel that had them scowling...
...Estonian-born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert on arbitration. His present fellow members are both 200-pounders: George Cook, who began his career as a railroad timekeeper and has worked for every railroad mediation body since 1920, and Otto Sternoff Beyer, who assisted Joseph Eastman when he was Transportation Coordinator. The National Mediation Board's record has been good-out of 407 cases in fiscal 1936-37, 259 were successfully settled; last year Dr. Leiserson arbitrated the dispute which got the railway unions a 7 ½% wage rise...
Died. Otto Sternoff Beyer, 70, of Brooklyn, N. Y., engineer, scion of Esthonian nobility; of hardening of the arteries; in Brooklyn. Engineer Beyer developed a vacuum method of filling milk bottles, automatic cigaret-making machinery, high speed compressors, canning machinery...
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