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Blow the Whistle. The current fight had begun last fall when all the railroad brotherhoods were agitating for wage increases. Some 1,000,000 workers in 17 non-operating brotherhoods accepted a 15½?-an-hour boost. Two operating brotherhoods with 250,000 members (trainmen and conductors) also accepted the 15½? boost...
...engineers, firemen and switchmen (representing 190,000 railway employees), held out. These three wanted a 30% boost and numerous changes in work, overtime and vacation rules which the railways estimated would add $500 million to payrolls. The issues were complicated. Negotiation, conciliation failed to resolve them. It was a situation for impartial judges to decide...
During the morning, Gootenberg addressed 200 strikers at a mass demonstration. He told the workers that the HLU backs the union's demand for a 29 cent hourly wage boost...
...Increased prices" explain the boost in the cost of graduate education, and the tuition hike is in keeping with the recently announced $125 increase for undergraduates and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
Scholarship aid will be raised and loan funds will be made available along with the tuition boost...