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...workers locked out of Henry Clay Frick's Homestead mill near Pittsburgh captured a boatload of Pinkerton guards, won a historic industrial battle but subsequently lost their first attempt to force labor unions on the highly individualistic steel industry. In 1919 a Chicago railway organizer named William Zebulon Foster tried his hand at organizing Steel. This attempt degenerated because American Federation of Labor unions were more anxious to protect their individual interests than to bring steelworkers into the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers. As in 1919, the great 1936 fight to unionize 500,000 steelworkers will...
...Chairman Harry Guy Taylor of the Western Association of Railway Executives an nounced that during 1935 the number of passenger deaths resulting from train accidents was (1 nine thousand eight hundred one, 2 five hundred, 3 seventy-four, 4 two hundred seventy three, 5 zero...
President Edward Wentworth Beatty of Canadian Pacific Railway L.L.D...
Tennist Helen Wills Moody spent a week-end in Stockbridge, attended no Group meetings. But one day last week a private railway car rolled into a siding and out popped Clara Bryant Ford, self-effacing wife of Henry Ford. Far from exploited by the Groups, who made clear that she was not identified with their movement, Mrs. Ford quietly attended meetings, lunched with Dr. Buchman and the most important of his followers, beheld a documentary Group film called Bridge Builders. Two days later she departed, thus ending rumors that her husband was to arrive in the company of Harvey Firestone...
...employes may be partially affected, possibly 150,000 let out. Since the average service of railway men is notably long, this would put a heavy burden on the railroads. Another possibility was expressed by President John Marcus Davis of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western: "If traffic increases as much as 10%, the railroads will be able to take care of most of their men and there will be little need for displacing them and applying to them the terms of the agreement...