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...Ultimate Weapon. Recovering its breath this week, the nation wondered: Was this kind of thing going to happen every few years? Strikes in some indus tries could be endured. But a railway strike was unendurable. What had happened to the "model" Railway Labor Act of 1926 which was supposed to relieve the country of such crises?* This was the fourth time since 1941 that the machinery of the act had collapsed...
...engineers, firemen and switchmen (representing 190,000 railway employees), held out. These three wanted a 30% boost and numerous changes in work, overtime and vacation rules which the railways estimated would add $500 million to payrolls. The issues were complicated. Negotiation, conciliation failed to resolve them. It was a situation for impartial judges to decide...
...been a long rivalry; they were trying to outdo each other as tough labor leaders. A. J. Glover, the big-boned boss of the switchmen, was newly elected; he also was trying to make a show with his rank & file. But all three leaders were chiefly resentful because railway wages had not kept pace with other industrial wages. Railway workers are no longer at the top of the labor heap. For oldtimers like Johnston and Robertson, this was something to holler about...
Surveyor. To prepare for his prodigious literary labors, Churchill got all his papers, letters and documents together and blocked out volume titles, chapter headings and an outline for all five volumes: "First I lay the track; then I put up the railway stations and the signal blocks...
...railway station, now in the center of the city, would be shifted to an open field four miles away