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...nine days in the grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House, 1.500 representatives of 21 standard railway unions and a committee of nine managers representing 210 Class 1 U. S. roads stubbornly locked horns over the matter of railroad wages. Time after time the conference was on the brink of rupture...
...What the Railway Labor Executives' Association would agree to was a continuation for another year of last year's Willard agreement-10% temporary deduction from the present basic pay scale (TIME, Feb. 8). In renewing the 1932 agreement, railway Labor wanted it made plain that while the pact was in operation, neither side was to apply to the Board of Mediation for revision of the basic scale...
Having blasted away at each other all week through an amplifying system which made every murmur an angry shout, the labor executives' committee and the railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago...
...Received from the Interstate Commerce Commission a report stating that a six-hour day (instead of an eight-hour day) for railway labor would have no physical effect on operation or service by the carriers; but, without a corresponding cut in pay, would increase their operating costs $414,000,000 per year as of 1932. A six-hour day under normal conditions would make 300,000 to 350,000 new railway jobs...
...Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Railway cuts a winding steel path through the forests of Southern Ontario. Near Mile 115 it is sharply hemmed by the Agawa River on one side, an 800-ft. cliff on the other. Approaching this spot on his regular freight run one day last week, Fireman Graham McLeod saw a big grey timber wolf loping down the track about 500 yd. ahead. He knew what to do. As the train caught up, he crawled out on the cowcatcher, seized the wolf by its tail. Strong teeth slashed his fingers badly before he got his prize into...