Word: railways
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...nation also had an issue. What was the value of a labor covenant which could be rejected the minute it did not suit labor? In the case of the Railway Labor Act, the safety and welfare of the nation was involved. All the misters of the brotherhoods had a lot to explain...
...which was supposed to be so good that railway workers were exempted from the provisions of the Taft-Hartley...
...Washington on the eve of World War II to serve on the National Defense Mediation Board, later on the War Labor Board. As mayor, he had put San Francisco's needs ahead of politics, had rammed through city purchase (for $7,500,000) of the Market Street Railway. He had been president, later board chairman, of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. for 18 years...
Soon the little gasoline-driven railway coach from the North Korea capital, Pyongyang, pulled up on the Russian side of the border. Russian-trained soldiers of the "Korean Peoples Army" bustled around, escorted two elderly Koreans to ward Marker 47. They were 74-year-old Kim Koo, former chief of the Korean government in exile, and 66-year-old Dr. Kimm Kiu Sic. Alone of South Korean political leaders, they had accepted a Communist invitation to go to Pyongyang. The subject for discussion: how to unify Korea...
...years, while their clinic flourished, the old brothers stiff-armed the law. Charged with federal mail fraud, they began to send out their literature by Railway Express. In 1947, the State of Indiana started action to take away their licenses. Dr. Peter fought the case through the courts, finally lost last January...