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...Orleans, delegates to the American Railway Association's annual convention last week discussed the use of radio communication in their business. It will soon be introduced on freight and passenger trains to establish constant communication between the conductor and brakemen, and the engineer. The present methods are steam valve signals (on passenger trains), and arm-waving from freight cabooses...
...plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap from...
...Freight Handlers. By vote of 6 to 1, the convention voted to suspend from the Federation the union of railway and steamship clerks, freight handlers, express and station employees unless it should abandon claims to jurisdiction over drivers and chauffeurs, etc., who belong to another union. The delegates of the suspended union, which has 160,000 members, threatened that their union would withdraw from the Federation rather than yield...
Only within the past two weeks three typical American enterprises -a hotel, a cinema theatre, and a freight subway-have been launched in London...
...these are minor enterprises compared with the proposed subway, which will cost 160 millions and be the largest system of its type in Europe. About 50,000 men will be employed for three years in its construction. To build and operate this freight subway, the "London Underground Goods Railways" has already been organized by Britons and Americans; required capital will be raised in London and New York...