Railroads and Business Prosperity: A Series of Addresses and Papers Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, April 28, 1922Thurman William Van Metre, Parker Thomas Moon Academy of Political Science, 1922 - 130 pages |
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20 minutes ACADEMY OF POLITICAL accumulated freight adjustment agricultural amount arbitration Argentina authorized basis believe billion dollars bituminous coal business depression carriers cars Chief Executive Columbia University commodities compulsory arbitration conference Congress consumers court decide decision directly interested dispute earn economic effect efficient established expenses fact factors fair return farm farmers freight rates freshly mined coal important increases in freight industry Interstate Commerce Commission jurisdiction maintenance ment National Coal Association net operating income normal opinion organizations of employees PARKER THOMAS MOON parties pig iron ployees POLITICAL SCIENCE portation Act present principle production provision rail railroad companies railroad employees Railroad Labor Board railroad managers railway rate tax rate-making reasonable reduction reference regulation representatives respect revenue roads rules Section 301 shipment shipped steel storage strike summer tion tons traffic trans Transportation Act transportation charge transportation cost wages wheat winter
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Page 65 - ... to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements concerning rates of pay, rules, and working conditions, and to settle all disputes, whether arising out of the application of such agreements or otherwise, in order to avoid any interruption to commerce or to the operation of any carrier growing out of any dispute between the carrier and the employees thereof.
Page 35 - ... upon a. written petition signed by not less than 100 unorganized employees or subordinate officials directly interested in the dispute, or (3) upon the Labor Board's own motion if it is of the opinion that the dispute is likely substantially to interrupt commerce...
Page 12 - Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. The majority of any craft or class of employees shall have the right to determine who shall be the representative of the craft or class for the purposes of this act.
Page 11 - All such disputes shall be considered and, if possible, decided in conference between representatives designated and authorized so to confer by the carriers, or the employees or subordinate officials thereof, directly interested in the dispute.
Page 66 - The scales of wages paid for similar kinds of work in other industries: (2) The relation between wages and the cost of living; (3) The hazards of the employment; (4) The training and skill required; (5) The degree of responsibility; (6) The character and regularity of the employment; and (7) Inequalities of increases in wages or of treatment, the result of previous wage orders or adjustments.
Page 91 - In making such determination it shall give due consideration, among other things, to the transportation needs of the country and the necessity (under honest, efficient and economical management of existing transportation facilities) of enlarging such facilities in order to provide the people of the United States with adequate transportation...
Page 65 - It shall be the duty of all carriers and their officers, employees and agents to exert every reasonable effort and adopt every available means...
Page 35 - Labor Board, (1) upon the application of the chief executive of any carrier or organization of employees or subordinate officials whose members are directly interested in the dispute, (2) upon a written petition signed by not less than 100 unorganized employees or subordinate officials directly interested in the dispute, or (3) upon the Labor Board's own motion if it is of the opinion that the dispute...