Word: switchmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time were arriving at Tientsin although Chinese troops of General Sung were mobilizing there simultaneously. In the same railway station one could see Japanese soldiers squatting in their trains on one railway siding while on another siding squatted Chinese troops. Japanese trains had Japanese engineers, crews and switchmen...
Back to Chicago, fortnight ago, went railroad labor in the persons of 450 delegates of the five big railroad Brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen). After nine days of deliberation, they determined to ask railroad managements for a 20% blanket wage raise. No one expects that they will get it; the 20% figure is for bargaining purposes. But they will undoubtedly get 2½% to 5%, for several good reasons...
...Last week the chiefs of seven powerful railway unions and brotherhoods (Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Conductors, Trainmen, Switchmen, Telegraphers, Train Dispatchers, Maintenance-of-Way Men)- marched into President Hoover's office to read him a long petition of their wants. They roundly favored Alfred Emanuel Smith's foreign debt formula (a long moratorium during which each country would have deducted from its debt a percentage of the value of its imports from the U. S.). Most conservative representatives of Labor, they warned: "Unless something is done to provide employment and relieve distress we cannot be responsible for the orderly...
...Western Maryland Railroad Co. In his private office, President Maxwell Cunningham Byers, 52, leaned back and talked with one of his special representatives, W. Taylor Springer. The railroad was running smoothly. He was satisfied. Western Maryland trains were on schedule over their 875 mi. of track. Engineers, brakemen, switchmen, signalmen were on the job. The road's car-loadings were keeping up at a remarkable rate. During the past dull nine months, gross had dropped only...