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Chairman Robertson's delegates had met in Chicago three weeks before, had gone home to get authorization to meet and treat with the executives committee of nine headed by Mr. Willard. This accomplished, the R. L. E. A. returned to Cleveland, sent "Uncle Dan" a telegram naming Chicago as the place and Jan. 14 as the date of their joint conference...
...dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally to a 70-year-old gentleman whose jolly round head is adorned with a sugarloaf hat and gold-rimmed spectacles?President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
...chief rep-resentative?"Uncle Dan." An up-from-the-tracks man, he enjoys the unanimous respect of organized railroad Labor. On his own line this takes the form of something approximating beatification. The judgment of B. & O. employes on him is: "One square guy!" Many a road used President Willard's "B. & O. Plan" to settle the shopmen's strike of 1922. As they prepared to sit down and thresh out together the first major wage problem since 1916, workers and operators of 249,000 U. S. rail miles felt that if anyone could oil the way to a solution...
...Uncle Dan" Willard was born on a farm near North Hartland, Vt. during the first year of the Civil War. The first locomotive he saw ran by the farm on the old Central Vermont. Aged 16, he taught school for a spell. Aged 17, he was sent to Massachusetts Agricultural College. Bad eyesight compelled him to give up his studies, get a job in a track gang. Three years later he was an engineer on the Connecticut & Passumpsic River, now a part of the Boston & Maine. Then he went West. When next seen he was "hogging" (driving a locomotive...
When a railroad official gets a chance for a better position on another line, not infrequently he takes a subordinate or so along with him. When Frederick Douglass Underwood left the Soo to become general manager of the B. & O. he took Superintendent Willard along as his assistant. That was in 1899. Two years later Mr. Underwood became president of the Erie, asked Mr. Willard to accompany him. "Uncle Dan" went along as general manager. In 1910 he returned East to become president of the road he had left nine years before...