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...unions, with one eye on the rising cost of living and the other on increased railroad revenues, whistled for a wage boost last spring. The five independent brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) demanded a 30% raise. Some 900,000 non-operating employes (shop workers, clerks, mechanics, laborers, etc.), members of 14 A. F. of L. unions, demanded a 30?-an-hour increase...
...Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors of America, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Switchmen's Union of North America...
...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...