Railway Age, Volume 127Simmons-Boardman, 1949 - Railroads |
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Page 37 - 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 35 - Conductors, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
Page 52 - An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes," approved October 15, 1914. (2) Any carrier party to an agreement between or among two or more carriers relating to rates, fares, classifications, divisions, allowances, or charges (including charges between carriers and compensation paid or received for the use of facilities and equipment), or rules and regulations pertaining thereto, or procedures for the joint consideration, initiation or establishment...
Page 54 - The Commission shall not approve under this section any agreement which establishes a procedure for the determination of any matter through joint consideration unless it finds that under the agreement there is accorded to each party the free and unrestrained right to take independent action either before or after any determination arrived at through such procedure.
Page 43 - ... cars of each respondent which are used in interchange freight service, and which are not equipped with said power brakes and appliances on December 31, 1949, shall be equipped with said power brakes and appliances, or shall be withdrawn from Interchange freight service, In accordance with the following schedule: Where the number of unequipped cars Is 2,000 or less, all shall be equipped or withdrawn on or before December 31, 1950.
Page 76 - ... motor vehicles used in carrying property consisting of ordinary livestock, fish (including shell fish), or agricultural (including horticultural) commodities (not including manufactured products thereof), if such motor vehicles are not used in carrying any other property, or passengers, for compensation...
Page 89 - ... which, you have been Acquainted, are to that Purpose: I shall now Acquaint him of this Loss, and I Wish I could Send him Immediately some more Force: Should any of the Corps from the West Indies come this way, I shall Lose no time in Forwarding them to Niagara to Strengthen the Force already sent; but, in the meantime, We must Do the Best We can with the Numbers We have. I Write again to Governor Hamilton;3 and I Trust the Province will now Enable him to Raise a Sufficient Force to protect the...
Page 54 - Such associations, in fact, exist now as they did before these decisions, and with the same general effect. In justice to all parties, we ought probably to add that it is difficult to see how our interstate railways could be operated with due regard to the interest of the shipper and the railway without concerted action of the kind afforded through these associations.
Page 47 - If, on the other hand, the primary business of an operator is found to be manufacturing or some other noncarrier commercial enterprise, then it must be determined whether the motor operations are in bona fide furtherance of the primary business or whether they are conducted as a related or secondary enterprise with the purpose of profiting from the transportation performed. In our opinion, they cannot be both.
Page 42 - Today the unlimited possibilities of the light metals and chemicals age lie before us. The so-called common metals on which our economy is now based are really not common, but scarce. Copper, lead, zinc, and nickel combined are only onetwentieth as abundant as magnesium. Magnesium alloys are stronger and easier to work than aluminum. They can take the place of steel. Aluminum is twice as abundant as iron. Plastics can take the place of glass and steel and other metals. They are based on chemicals...