Word: trains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory" mass meeting. The victory was a contract signed in Chicago with The Pullman Co., and the meeting was a triumphant welcome by the Harlem porters for the returning Brotherhood president, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph who brought back some $2,000,000 in pay increases. Minimum wage for train porters was hiked from $77.50 per month to $89.50. For maids from $75 to $97.50.* A basic 240-hour month was established, time-and-a-half for overtime provided after 260 hours, working rules & regulations agreed upon...
...obliged to use regulation-size boats, with a minimum length of 25 ft. 11 in., minimum weight including crew and ballast of 5,500 lb. Publicity-conscious shipping lines have taken to building special boats for the race, selecting crews by competition, giving them a month off work to train. Only contestants last week were the crews of Standard Oil Co. of N. J.'s W. C. Teagle and the Italian Line's Conte di Savoia, each of which had two legs on the cup, and the French Line's Normandie, which had none. While tenders...
...years ago, as rector of St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee and member of the State Labor Board. He returns to Catholic University, where in 1922 he took his Ph.D. with a thesis on "Mediation in the Men's Garment Industry," to emphasize the Church's economic teachings, train priests and laymen in organizing social-minded Catholic groups, apply moral laws to economic life. At the University Monsignor Haas will encounter, among other kindred priests, a newly-appointed philosophy professor, Monsignor George Barry O'Toole, founder of the Catholic Radical Alliance in Pittsburgh (TIME, June...
Half-believing friends' stories about the occult powers of the Indians, she became so excited by her first glimpse of the Southwest that she got off the train and hired a rattletrap automobile to speed her arrival. "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am Here," she announced to the "mythical" New Mexico landscape. Soon tired of Santa Fe, where the people were "too eager and cordial" ('"Why," she said, "should they be so glad to see me?"), she found in the village of Taos, 75 mi. from Santa Fe, what she was looking for. She rented...
...costs have jumped on four fronts this year: 1) Cost of materials and supplies, particularly coal, are up about 12%, or $125,000,000. 2) Taxes, including those under the Social Security Act and pension laws, have risen $70,000,000. 3) New State laws, such as those limiting train length and increasing train crews will cost $12,000,000. 4) A 5?-an-hour pay raise granted Aug. 1 to 750,000 non-train railroad workers (clerks, signalmen, etc.) will cost $100,000,000. The five big brotherhoods of railway trainmen for a month have threatened to strike unless...