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...another name for G. P. McN. (George Plummer McNear Jr.), who owns it-track, ties & rolling stock (TIME, May 18). As a result of last week's decision by a Government-appointed arbitrator, G. P. McN. will have to pay $3,200 a month more in wages, and the Government has still got his railroad. But the sacrosanct featherbed rules of the Railroad Brotherhoods-the rules which make the carriers pay for all sorts of unnecessary work-had taken a disastrous shaking...
...shaking started a year ago when the Brotherhoods demanded their nationwide 30% wage boost. G. P. McN., like the other roads, agreed to part of the raise. But unlike the others, he added a proviso and stuck to it-no more featherbedding. Roared he: "A day's work for a day's pay." So last December his engineers and trainmen struck. So G. P. McN. went on running his railroad as usual, except that he used only 55 trainmen instead of 83-the number which the Brotherhoods' featherbed rules would have required for the same work...
Missing election by nine votes was John Richardson, Jr. '43, who was in seventh place. The other Juniors, and their votes, were: Robert G. Axtell, 153; John W. Morgan, 149; Richard P. Glifford, 135; William McN. Rand, Jr., 124; Paul C. Sheeline, 117; Adams Yarmolinsky, 114; Dana Reed, 112; George R. Clay, 111; David E. Place, 109; Chester W. Jenks, Jr., 102; J. Elden Sawhill, Jr., 81; J. Donald MacKinnon, Jr., 70; Charles S. Borden...
Rand, William McN...
Among those chosen were Donald Forte '43, Varsity football captain; William R. Drucker '43, captain of the swimming team; William McN. Rand '43, editor of his House year book; William C. Cahall '44, who has been elected for the second time; Richard N. Eckert '44, basketball manager; and George C. Dillon '44, member of the Varsity basketball team...