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Watt's committee, will include John McC. Howison '47, of Dunster House and Bogata, Texas; Henry McN. Jones '45, of Adams House and New York City; and Lloyd S. Gilmour '49, of Straus Hall and Glen Head, Long Island, Harold W. Smith '44 and Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, presidents of the Advocate in 1942 and 1943 respectively, will act as advisers to the committee...
...happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about."-James A. McN. Whistler...
...railroad executives the whole affair was utterly fantastic. A little pipsqueak railroad had soundly beaten the giant Brotherhoods, slashed their demands by 75%. Not in decades had a big road extracted more than a handful of fluff from the Brotherhood featherbed. There was only one big hitch: G. P. McN. was still minus his railroad...
Right there G. P. McN. made his big mistake. He found, as Air Associates (TIME, Nov. 10) had found before him, that beating a strike is not healthy so long as the Administration feels the way it does about labor and has wartime powers with which to crack down. After George McNear had refused to arbitrate (as the Brotherhoods had refused to arbitrate with the railroads a year before), President Roosevelt declared that there was an "emergency" on the G. P. McN. This was startling: the road was running, it was paying high wages, it even had a waiting list...
...beam soon vanished. The Government as successor of G. P. McN. agreed to arbitration. At hearings in Chicago during May and June some amazing figures came out: under McNear's "day's work for a day's pay," T.P. & W.'s wage bill in April was $18,478. The Office of Defense Transportation figured out that under Brotherhood rules the bill would have been $56,711. Badly jolted by this noncooperative ODT attitude, the Brotherhoods finally said their wage bill would have been $31,000 (still 70% over McNear's figure). The Government-appointed arbitrator...