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Present rail wage same as in 1920 when under government control, fact finding committee told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. Present railroad wages are on approximately the same level as in 1920 when the roads were controlled by the government, Bert M. Jewell, President of the A.F. of L.'s railway employees, told President Roosevelt's fact finding board today. He contended that because railroad workers have made "little or no progress" in improving their wages rates since then, they should now be called upon to accept the 15 percent reduction demanded by the carriers, 10/8/38

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News Note-President Gompers of the A.F.L. says "J. Cleve Dean" of the Railway Employees' Association is a straw man

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In Italy the trains stop at the stations and the passengers get down to buy papers, candy and wine Judging by the numbers of police at the stations in Italy a criminal would have little chance of escaping from punishment ; Mussolini claims to have discharged all the useless railway employees but here are three men whose duty it is to attend to the few trains a day and close the doors of the compartments.

Photographs show passengers and a food vendor near a train station, police officers at a train station, and railroad workers closing doors of railway cars, Italy. On page: no. 1554 (top image), no. 1553 (middl More

In Italy the trains stop at the stations and the passengers get down to buy papers, candy and wine. Note black shirt fascisti with ribbons for service Mussolini claims to have discharged all the useless railway employees but here are three men whose duty it is to attend to the few trains a day and close the doors of the compartments.

Photograph shows newspaper vendors at railroad stations and railroad employees closing doors of a train car, Italy. On page: no. 1556 (top image), no. 1557 (middle image), and no. 1558 (bottom image). Text und More

Rail management and Labor executives confer with President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. Following a conference today with representatives of Railway Management and Labor at the White House, President Roosevelt announced that he had named an informal six-man committee to devise a broad plan of rail aid legislation for the next congress. The committee comprises three rail management executives and three rail labor chiefs. Attending today's conference were, left to right: Ernest E. Norris, President of the Southern R.R.; D.B. Robertson, representing locomotive firemen and engineers; George M. Harrison, President, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; Carl B. Gray ; Vice Chairman of the Union Pacific R.R.; M.W. Clement, President of Penna. R.R.; and B.M. Jewell, President, Railway Employees, A.F. of L., 9/20/38

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The committee of railroad presidents and railroad union officials forming the Railway Labor Management Conference held a session in Washington, December 18, 1942 with Office of Defense Transportation officials to discuss manpower problems. The group agreed to submit recommendations to the ailroad executives' associations and the railway labor organizations. Reading from left to right are J.J. Pelley, President, Association of American Railroads; E.E. Norris, President, Southern Railway System; L.W., Baldwin, Chief Executive Officer, Missouri Pacific Lines; S.J. Hogan, President, National Marine Engineers Association; E.W. Scheer, President, Reading Railway System; Joseph B. Eastman, Director, Office of Defense Transportation; J.G. Luhrsen, Executive Secretary, Railway Labor Executives' Association; O.S. Beyer, Director, Division of Transport Personnel; D.B. Robertson, President, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; M.W. Clement, President, Pennsylvania Railroad; B.M. Jewell, President, Railway Employees' Department; G.M. Harrison, President, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; A.F. Whitney, President, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen

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Proposed closure of the Bala-Ffestiniog Railway in 1958 and its closure 22 January 1961

Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Cynlluniau i gau Rheilffordd Bala-Ffestiniog yn 1958 a'i ddiwedd ar 22 Ionawr 1961.Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002).Dyddiad/Date: 2/10/1958 & 22/1/1961.Cyfrwng/Me More

Smith and Tims railway contractors passing through Dungog to Taree, N.S.W.

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