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Arthur Orlando Wharton, hardboiled, hard-driving head of the Machinists Union (180,000 members). When Machinist Wharton was 6, his father froze to death in a blizzard. Part Cherokee Indian, he founded what is now A. F. of L.'s powerful Railway Employes' Department. In the 13 years since he fought his way to presidency of Machinists he has upped his union's membership from...
George McGregor Harrison, president of the Railway Clerks, president of the all-powerful Railway Labor Executives Association, has been frequently mentioned as an eventual compromise A. F. of L. president who might pull the entire U. S. labor movement together once more. He is chairman of the standing A. F. of L. committee appointed to negotiate with C. I. O. whenever C. I. O. feels like negotiating...
...price. By 1929 the union had gained A. F. of L. Federal charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped, and the next year when the National Mediation Board held an election the Brotherhood beat a reorganized company union, 6,000 to 1,400. Subsequent...
...join with another half-million gaping visitors for the greatest political circus in the world, the seven-day Nazi Party Congress. Days before the Congress opened last week, 550 special trains, seething with black, brown, green-shirted Storm Troopers, Special Guards, Labor Corps, Hitler Youth were pouring into the railway stations, disgorging their loads in the allotted ten minutes time. Shouldering their packs, the military and semimilitary corps clumped away to their temporary homes in 13 miniature tent cities, spread over half-a-million square yards around the medieval town...
...director of the Kaganovich Ball Bearing Plant ("Largest in the World") at Moscow, made boss of 20,000 of his former fellow workers. Straight from the cab of his locomotive an engineer named Peter Krivonos, according to Moscow dispatches last week, was promoted manager of the Slaviansk Railway Repair Shop ("Largest in Russia"). A 21-year-old girl, Nagimla Arykova, hitherto the editor of an unheard of provincial weekly in Kazakhstan, found herself installed as the Commissar of Public Welfare of the Kazak Soviet Socialist Republic...