Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives on Safety Appliances |
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ADAMSON aforementioned Canal Zone agree air brakes amended ances applied Association BARTLETT bill BORLAND brakemen BRAZIER Brotherhood of Locomotive BROWNE BUCKLAND CHAIRMAN Congress CUSHMAN dangerous defective appliances defective hand brakes difference of opinion disabled cars end ladder end sill ESCH fact FAULKNER favor February 13 full hearing FULLER gentlemen give Goss grab handles grab irons H. B. PERHAM hauled HAWLEY heard HUBBARD inches Injured inspectors Interstate Commerce Commission KENNEDY killed legislation MANN Master Car Builders merce Commission minutes o'clock a. m. object opposed organizations I represent Panama Canal Zone position President proposition question rail railroad company railroad employees repair require RICHARDSON roads roof hand holds rules running boards RYAN safety appliances safety of employees safety-appliance side ladder sill steps standards STATEMENT statute stirrup switchmen Switchmen's Union thing tion TOWNSEND tracks understand uniformity violation WANGER yards York Central
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Page 22 - Acts mentioned herein, and such equipment shall have become defective or insecure while such car was being used by such carrier upon its line of railroad, such car may be hauled from the place where such equipment was...
Page 25 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
Page 33 - SEC. 6. That any such common carrier using any locomotive engine, running any train, or hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its line any car in violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation...
Page 21 - All cars must be equipped with secure sill steps and efficient hand brakes ; all cars requiring secure ladders and secure running boards shall be equipped with such ladders and running boards, and all cars having ladders shall also be equipped with secure handholds, or grab irons, on their roofs at the tops of such ladders...
Page 25 - to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 31 - That the Interstate Commerce Commission may from time to time upon full hearing and for good cause extend the period within which any common carrier shall comply with the provisions of this act.
Page 22 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Page 22 - ... or foreign traffic which does not comply with the standard so prescribed by the commission. SEC. 4. That any common carrier subject to this act, using, hauling, or permitting to be used or hauled on its line...
Page 6 - Conference Committees and certain of their employees represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, the Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the Switchmen's Union of North America.
Page 25 - EXECUTIVE ORDER Under authority vested in me by law, it is ordered: 1. The requirements of the Act of Congress, relating to the use on trains of certain described and approved...