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...resounding strike call read like a timetable. At 6 a.m. on Dec. 7 the five railway brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) would walk out on the Santa Fe, Rock Island, New York Central, Denver & Rio Grande, Katy, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, 44 other lines. Next day they would quit on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, the Gulf Coast lines, 40 others. By the third day, on 156 roads that carry passengers, food, coal, machinery and mail from New England to California, from Florida to Washington, not a wheel would turn...
...history of railway labor relations was built on the knowledge, shared alike by management, labor and the public, that the wheels must never stop. Ever since 1898 there has been Federal mediation machinery set up so that the wheels would not stop...
...Union of Socialist Soviet Republics appears on the next two pages. Prepared from new source material, it shows important features missing from most available maps, for example: the rail line between Guriev and Orsk, all but completed by 1941; the railway link between the Archangel-Moscow line and the Kotlas-Kirov line, just completed. Contrary to the general impression, the 93% of the U.S.S.R. still held by the Russians is rich in natural resources, adequately machined...
...many as were made elsewhere in all Russia. There have been many conversions: the Tagil Car Works is now producing military vehicles; the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant now makes tanks; factories in Novosibirsk mass-produce military-type skis. The diversity is surprising: the auxiliary capital produces carburetors, armatures, railway equipment, cinema apparatus, tractor parts, tubes, leather goods, foodstuffs...
Gorki, son of an upholsterer, himself a worker in the railway shops of Tiflis, wrote of tramps and social outcasts with the familiarity of a man who was one. A city took his name. Chekhov made heroes and heroines of people who suffered. Sechenov and Pavlov, the greatest Russian physiologists, tried to analyze suffering...