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Sorest Spot in the side of organized U. S. Labor at present is the wound whence the railways extracted a 10% horizontal wage cut last year (TIME, Feb. 8). President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, speaking for the running crafts (engineers, firemen & enginemen, conductors, trainmen), served notice that while railway workers might agree to continue the reduced pay scale another year on Jan. 1, they would fight to the last ditch incipient demands for further reductions by railway management. Railway unionists will meet in Chicago Dec. 7 to consolidate their position before meeting with management representatives...
...show their feelings Irish Republicans ripped up sections of the principal railway tracks connecting their Free State and Northern Ireland, posted such signs as this...
...fellowship at All Souls), scholars would not call him a scholar. He wrote two-thirds of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his history of the Arab revolt, at odd moments during the Peace Conference at Paris; the introduction was written in an airplane flying from Paris to Cairo. At Reading railway station, the following December, the two-thirds-finished MS was stolen. He set to and rewrote the whole thing in three months? 34,000 words of it at one sitting, between sunrise and sunrise. Published and distributed privately, the book cost him some...
Peering from behind thick-lensed spectacles, Nathan Leonard Amster. a Rumanian-born director of Manhattan Railway Co. ("The El") and head of a stockholders' committee, arrived late at the annual meeting last week. Behind him trouped 30 angry stockholders armed with stacks of proxies. Though a meeting chairman had already been elected, Director Amster promptly accused him of trying to "railroad" the meeting, deposed him and elected Lionel F. Straus, a New York tractioneer and one of his henchmen, to the chair. While election tellers squabbled loudly over the legality of proxies. Insurgent Director Amster listened gleefully to stockholders...
...Nathan Leonard Amster bring a new entry to the crowded field of interests which are jockeying for position in New York City's plans for unification of all its transit lines (TIME. Sept. 5). The ousted directors represented I. R. T., the subway system which leased all Manhattan Railway's elevated lines for 999 years, and pledged itself to pay interest & dividends on Manhattan securities. When I. R. T. was thrown into receivership, it was an open secret that the chief purpose of the receivership was to break the unprofitable lease of the El. Insurgent Amster is fighting...