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...National Association of Manufacturers last month, its chairman, Colby M. Chester asked rhetorical questions: "Will the Government sit down with Business and Labor? Will it invite this co-operation?" This modest suggestion made a great impression on George Harrison, head of A. F. of L.'s Brotherhood of Railway Clerks. Since Labor was sharing the brunt of Recession in layoffs and shortened hours, Laborman Harrison took it upon himself to bring Government and Business face to face. Soon he was scurrying back & forth between the President's son James and the better Manhattan clubs, and five men were...
...expected anyone to sell it in slot machines. The In-surograph Agency of America, incorporated in Kansas for that surprising purpose, is the notion of a small group of Wichita businessmen. In about two weeks Standard Register Co. of Dayton will begin manufacturing machines for them to put in railway and bus stations...
Pelley. As spokesman for U. S. railroads, worst hit of all U. S. industries, President J. J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads declared: "During the first nine months of the year 1937 railway employment was consistently greater than in 1936. During the final three months, however, a reversal . . . brought the average for that period down to 3% below 1936. The decline was an accelerating one, amounting to 32,000 men in November and 73.500 in December...
...poser facing almost every U. S. road- that operating costs have far outstripped operating revenues. For the first eleven months of 1937 the B. & O.'s total operating revenue of $157,700,000 was $3,000,000more than for the same period of 1936. But its net railway operating income of $24,200,000 (before fixed charges) was $3,000,000 less. In the past month the depression has nipped revenues still further. Because of boom times in the spring the B. & O.'s 1937 carloading total was about 5% over 1936. But during the third week...
...Friedrich Engels, after reading Morgan's studies of primitive man, corrected The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels drew on Morgan's findings on primitive family relationships in writing The Origin of the Family. Meanwhile, Morgan settled in Rochester, N. Y., married a cousin, became a director in railway & mining companies and piled up $100,000 before he died in 1881. He was elected State senator in 1867, but his legislative career was notable only for his attempt to block an investigation of the gigantic Erie Railroad swindle...