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...statute can be made to represent the consensus of responsible labor and management leaders. The Railway Labor Act of 1926 was such a consensus. In the present state of collective bargaining the new statute need not be thrust down the threat of labor or management. The time has passed for more "get even" laws. Management's lessons from the Wagner Act and labor's from the Taft-Hartley act have created an awareness to the rights of the other party and a greater sense of public responsibility. There are signs that the administration intends to follow the course of consulting...
...Most of the city's activities centered around the railway station and airports. Streets by the depot were jammed with refugees peddling odd bits of belongings to buy food at the steaming vendors' stands lining the sidewalks. Every few hours, trains overflowing with yellow-clad troops chuffed from Mukden station and rattled west toward Yingkow...
...Armed railway forces...
Recently the Song of Ram has pointed up another disharmony-Moslems & Hindus v. Christians. In the dusty railway town of Jhansi, 225 miles south of Delhi, students of the Christian High School asked permission to sing the hymn during their daily prayers. School authorities refused, on the grounds that it would be inappropriate to worship non-Christian gods in a Christian institution. Representatives of the 800 students promptly protested that they merely wanted to do the will of Gandhi, who "died not only for India but for the whole of mankind...
South of General Chen, the Communist offensive was in the hands of shrewd, slippery General Liu Po-cheng, "the one-eyed dragon." Maneuvering down the rail line toward Hankow, Liu sent one column from his major force hell-for-leather down around Sinyang to feel out the railway defenses along the line south of the city. If Liu could cut the rail line, he would have Sinyang encircled and more than 100,000 Nationalist troops in the trap. Besides, by cutting the line he could link with other Communist forces to the south and threaten the Yangtze Valley from Hankow...