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...States' Righters were alarmed and angered by a Supreme Court decision holding that the Railway Labor Act overrode state right-to-work laws in the case of railroad employees...
...long time to negotiate a project, and follows it through to the final rivet. "We are accused of imposing a lot of conditions," says Black. "That is absolutely true. We are proud of it." In Thailand, for example, the bank agreed to finance modernization of the government-owned railway system only on condition that it be set up as an autonomous agency, free from any government interference...
Winding up the cannonade, Mollet attacked Communists who "organize demonstrations in railway stations when reservists are leaving" and "call for a ceasefire in Algeria." Said Mollet: "I, too, am a partisan of a ceasefire, but these people make the demand only on France." Though the vote was not due until this week, Mollet appeared likely to win-for as Mollet himself quipped "everybody wants my blood but nobody wants...
...dawn, in the sweltering, smoky railway center of Kharagpur, near Calcutta, a locomotive chugged to a stop outside the station to discharge workers. Suddenly, a mob of 200 railroad strikers was upon it. Beating the driver and fireman to a pulp with stones, they tossed their bodies aside. Then they opened the throttle and sent the locomotive careering down the tracks into the station. It smashed into a crowd of 100 workers, throwing bodies in every direction and injuring 60 people...
...employees of the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1953 the five employees, all office workers, had flatly refused union membership, contending that such action would be a violation-of the right-to-work provision in a 1946 amendment to the state constitution. The Nebraska Supreme Court backed them up. The Railway Clerks and other unions affected carried the appeal to Washington, and the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Nebraska decision on the grounds that a Railway Labor Act amendment specifically permits companies and unions to negotiate union-shop agreements even if there is a state law to the contrary. Under...