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...Western Maryland Railroad Co. In his private office, President Maxwell Cunningham Byers, 52, leaned back and talked with one of his special representatives, W. Taylor Springer. The railroad was running smoothly. He was satisfied. Western Maryland trains were on schedule over their 875 mi. of track. Engineers, brakemen, switchmen, signalmen were on the job. The road's car-loadings were keeping up at a remarkable rate. During the past dull nine months, gross had dropped only...
Shoes. To personal friends of George W. Johnson (Endicott Johnson Co., Binghamton, N. Y.) came 425 pairs of shoes; to policemen, 16; to switchmen, 23; to ministers, 30; to inmates of the County Home, 252; to school children of Endicott (from George F. Johnson), 6,500; in all, 13,000 pairs. Value...
Three million New York Straphangers hung as usual last week. The subway strike of some 700 "keymen" (motormen and switchmen) had practically failed. Herman A. Metz, one of the three public representatives of the Interborough directorate, refused to recognize the strikers' "outlaw union." The "union" leaders, Herman A. Metz, Harry Bark, Joseph Phelan refused to return on any other basis. Meantime, the I. R. T., bearing in mind the famed Danbury Hatters case, brought suit against the strikers for 239,000 damages ("violation of contract.") Said noted jurist Samuel Untermeyer, "This is a silly and transparent gesture." Manhattan autocrats...
...continued failure of the Federal Railway Labor Board to take decisive action on the alleged grievances of railway workers has produced a situation that may at any time develop into another and far more serious strike. More than seven months ago the Administration promised relief to the switchmen and can shopmen through the immediate reduction of the cost of living. But the cost of living has steadily advanced, and the restless discontent of the men has increased as they have watched the garment workers, coal miners and other classes receive substantial increases in wages. The Federal Board, provided...