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...Last week the chiefs of seven powerful railway unions and brotherhoods (Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, Conductors, Trainmen, Switchmen, Telegraphers, Train Dispatchers, Maintenance-of-Way Men)- marched into President Hoover's office to read him a long petition of their wants. They roundly favored Alfred Emanuel Smith's foreign debt formula (a long moratorium during which each country would have deducted from its debt a percentage of the value of its imports from the U. S.). Most conservative representatives of Labor, they warned: "Unless something is done to provide employment and relieve distress we cannot be responsible for the orderly...
...During the General Strike of 1926 with Press, telegraphs and telephones silenced, B. B. C. broadcast not only news and Government announcements but railway timetables and essential facts of every sort...
Railroads. Alfred Pembroke Thorn, counsel for the Association of Railway Executives, takes care of his client before Congress...
...Prairie du Chien, Wis. on the railway station platform stands a great box. On its side is painted the address: "Prairie du Chien, Wis."-nothing else, no sender, no addressee. None of Prairie du Chien's 3,043 inhabitants has claimed it, all have come to look at it. The box contains an electric chair, designed for human executions...
...Traveling last week from Peiping to Mukden, onetime Manchurian Capital, members of the Earl of Lytton's League of Nations Commission were saluted at Chinchow by White Russian troops acting as railway guards for the Japanese...