Hours of Service of Railroad Employees: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on S. 1938 ... September 30, October 13 and 14, 1969U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969 - 243 pages Committee Serial No. 91-31. Considers S. 1938, to limit the hours railroad employees are allowed to work. |
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12 hours 24-hour period Adamson Act additional aggregate agreements assignments away-from-home terminal basic day carriers cars CHESSER Class I railroads collective bargaining committee common carrier CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consecutive hours deadhead transportation designated terminal earnings effect enacted existing law fatigue Federal Railroad Administration freight service freight trains home terminal hours of service hours on duty increase interim rest periods Interstate Commerce Commission legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Locomotive Engineers long hours MANION maximum hours ment miles mins number of hours overtime passenger penalty pending bills Penn Central Penn Central Transportation percent ployees PRIOR TO TRIP provisions railroad employees railroad industry railroad operating employees railroad safety Railway Labor reduced road Senator CANNON Senator HARTKE Senator PEARSON Service Act Service Law service limits Southern Pacific statement tion train accidents train crews train dispatchers TRAIN NUMBER TRAINMEN unions United Transportation Union Vance Hartke violation yard service
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Page 152 - That the provisions of this act shall not apply in any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officer or agent in charge of such employee at the time said employee left a terminal, and which could not have been foreseen: Provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the crews of wrecking or relief trains.
Page 1 - ... from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from any place in the United States...
Page 2 - ... brought by the United States district attorney In the District Court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality...
Page 33 - An Act providing for mediation, conciliation, and arbitration in controversies between certain employers and their employees," approved July fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen" be amended so as to read as follows: "SECTION 1.
Page 1 - Act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers, their officers, agents, and employees, engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by railroad in the District of Columbia, or in any Territory of the United States, or from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, or...
Page 16 - ... begins when he reports for duty and ends when he is finally released from duty, and includes — (1) Time engaged in or connected with the movement of any train...
Page 2 - That any such common carrier or any officer or agent thereof, requiring or permitting any employee to go, be, or remain on duty...
Page 2 - railroad " as used in this Act shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any common carrier operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract, agreement, or lease; and the term
Page 192 - ... shall have been continuously on duty for sixteen hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go on duty until he has had at least ten consecutive hours off duty...