Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carriers dropped their demand that the mileage a train crew must cover to qualify for a day's pay be increased from the antiquated minimum of 100 to a new standard of 160. They thus lost potential savings of $107 million a year. The unions, in return, agreed to delay until Jan. 1, 1968, a push for an increase in the rate of pay for mileage worked beyond the 100. They also dropped their demands for a night differential and a new overtime rule. Some 100,000 yard employees will get pay increases averaging 31%. Examples: yard foremen...
...INTERDIVISIONAL RUNS. The carriers' attempt to eliminate rules under which new crews often are required to take over a train whenever it enters a new geographical division of a company was held for further mediations. The carriers had hoped to save some $20 million by changing this rule...
...first, the Brooklyn group's effort seemed about to live up to its nightmarish prospects. Early in the morning, some demonstrators tried to keep a subway train from moving by holding the doors open. A cop batted their hands with his night stick, the doors closed, and the train moved...
Shortly afterward, another fair-bound train stopped in the station, and again a bunch of demonstrators wedged themselves in the doorways to keep the train from starting. This time a flying squad of Transit Authority police, some of them Negro, barreled to the rescue. The protesters refused to budge. The cops hauled them out one by one. Some of the demonstrators, several of whom were white, began fighting back. Billy-clubs began swinging, and before long some of the demonstrators were nursing bloodied heads. In all, 23 of them were carried off to jail...
...women and children pouring over by helicopter, hydrofoil, excursion steamer, automobile, bus, train and subway to push through the new fair's 89 turnstiles can see at once that, first and foremost, they are expected to enjoy themselves. This is no sobersided Park of Culture and Rest, but a fantastical medley of outrageous shapes and sizes-soaring planes and flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head...