Additional information supplied by-Continued Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen-Continued Exhibit No. 4: Revenue traffic units per man-hour, specified dates, Exhibit No. 5: Typical wage increases since the Korean crisis__ Exhibit No. 6: Rates of pay--. Exhibit No. 7: Financial position of the railways--- Exhibit No. 8: Comparison of railroad revenue yield per traffic unit with indexes of price changes, selected years 1921-49 and Exhibit No. 9: The 40-hour week on American railroads-excerpt from the Emergency Board report on wages and hours for non- operating railway employees December 17, 1948__ Exhibit No. 10: Excerpts from the McDonough Board report_--- Exhibit No. 11: Achievement of the 40-hour week in American Industry-Excerpts from National Industrial Recovery Act____ Exhibit No. 12: Establishment of the 5-day workweek by the Exhibit No. 13: Traffic units per employee, yard service em- ployees, selected years, 1922–49_. Exhibit No. 14: Yard-service casualties, class I railways, 1930-49; casualties of yard firemen and helpers, class I railways, 1941-45; casualties of yard brakemen and yard helpers, class I railways, 1941-45; Army and Air Force casualties World War II___. Exhibit No. 15: Members of Emergency Board in Conductors Exhibit No. 16: Members of the Emergency Board in the non- operating 40-hour week and wage increase case, 1948_. Exhibit No. 17: Railway occupational groups operating predomi- nantly on a 7-day week in May, 1948_- William Green, Philip Murray, and John L. Lewis_- Exhibit No. 1: Proposals of the organizations before the Presi- dent's Emergency Board re conductors' and trainmen's 1949 Exhibit No. 2: Chronological analysis of dispute from its incep- Exhibit No. 3: Letter from W. P. Kennedy, president, to chair- men, General Grievance Committees___ Exhibit No. 4: Constitution and bylaws; filed with committee--- Exhibit No. 5: Article in Trainmen News; filed with committee--- 51, 54, 55, 62, 74 Circular to chief operating officers, Western Railways, represented 464 331 Exhibit No. 3: Papers and documents; filed with the committee_- Exhibit No. 4: Mediation agreement-Order of Railway Con- Exhibit No. 7: Complete set of agreements between the eastern, western, and southeastern carriers and their employees, repre- 394 Additional information supplied by-Continued Carriers Continued Exhibit No. 9: Additional memorandum of agreement, December Page 407 Exhibit No. 10: Financial condition of the railroads, prepared by the Bureau of Railway Economics of the Association of Amer- 470 Exhibit No. 11: Carrier proposals for complete agreement; filed 500 Exhibit No. 12: Brief; filed with committee_ 565 Exhibit No. 13: Railroad transportation, a statistical record, 800 Exhibit No. 5: Associated Press dispatch announcing settlement Exhibit No. 6: Letters from Karl R. Bendetsen, Assistant Secre- tary of the Army, to counsel of the subcommittee, November 3, 1950, and February 21, 1951, with attachments__ Exhibit No. 7: Report of Emergency Board No. 66, sometimes called the Leiserson report, which referred to the Akron & Barberton Belt Railroad Co. and its employees, dated December Exhibit No. 8: Report No. 83, also called McDonough report, which involved the switchmen's union and the western carriers; filed Exhibit No. 9: Emergency Board Report No. 92, dated September 9, 1950, which involved disputes between the Atlantic & East Carolina Railroad Co. and certain other carriers and brother- Exhibit No. 10: Emergency Board Report No. 73, dated May 6, 1949, which involved the employees of the Railway Express Agency; filed with committee__ Exhibit No. 11: Statistics re 40-hour week and 48-hour pay pre- pared by Bureau of Labor Statistics____ Exhibit No. 12: Editorial in Washington Post, March 14, 1951___ Exhibit No. 15: Indiana Harbor Belt Line Railroad Co. agree- Exhibit No. 16: Rank of 124 individual industries in manufactur- ing and nonmanufacturing, in may 1949-average hourly earn- Exhibit No. 17: Rank of 124 industries in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing, in May 1949-average weekly earnings---- Exhibit No. 18: Table on hours and earnings of class I railroad employees in relation to 32 selected manufacturing industries, January 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, and 1949____. Exhibit No. 19: Letter from John Thad Scott, Jr., National Media- tion Board, to chairman, March 28, 1951- Exhibit No. 20: Correspondence between Order of Railway Con- ductors of America and Karl R. Bendetsen, Assistant Secretary Additional information supplied by-Continued Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Continued Page Exhibit No. 23: Yearbook of Railroad Information, 1950 edition; 741 Exhibit No. 24: Book entitled "Railroad Men and Wages," by 741 741 742 Exhibit No. 25: Book entitled "Wages, Hours, and Employment Exhibit No. 28: Class I railroads and 32 selected manufacturing Exhibit No. 29: Release of the Association of American Railroads, dated April 4, 1951, with respect to net operating income of class Exhibit No. 30: Booklet entitled "General Rebuttal of Employees to Carriers' Proposals for Managerial Prerogative to Strip Op- Various correspondence_. Department of the Army: Correspondence between Karl R. Bendet- 700 663 Exhibit No. 1: Pamphlet entitled "Fifteen Years Under the Rail- 809 812 813 435 Exhibit No. 5: Cases handled and disposition thereof by the Exhibit No. 1: Report to the President by the Emergency Board, dated June 15, 1950; filed with the committee__. Exhibit No. 2: Background information re McDonough-Watkins- Exhibit No. 3: Carriers' proposal known as attachment A... Exhibit No. 8: Formal call of chairman, general committees of Exhibit No. 9: Telegram of R. O. Hughes, to John R. Steelman, LABOR DISPUTE BETWEEN RAILROAD CARRIERS AND FOUR OPERATING RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1951 COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to call, in the Old Supreme Court room, the Capitol, Senator James E. Murray (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Murray (chairman), Hill, Humphrey, Lehman, Pastore, Taft, Aiken, and Morse. Also present: William H. Coburn, chief clerk of the committee; Herman Lazarus and Tom Shroyer, of the professional staff of the committee; and Ray R. Murdock, counsel to the Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations. The CHAIRMAN. The hearing will come to order, please. Several of the Senators that intend to be here are being delayed. Senator Neely is occupied with a hearing in the District Committee and has a number of witnesses there, and he just came and told me that he would be available if necessary. But we will proceed with the hearing, and the Senators will arrive in due course. The purpose of this hearing is to inquire into the causes of, the issues involved in and the repeated failure to settle the current labor dispute between the railroad carriers and the four operating railroad brotherhoods. The dispute commenced formally in March 1949 and, judging by newspaper reports, is no nearer settlement now. Since it affects the stability of the operations of our railroads, this dispute constitutes a threat to our economy and our defense effort. Since it affects interstate commerce, it is a problem of immediate and direct concern to the Federal Government and the Congress. It is difficult to believe that men of good faith cannot settle almost any dispute in a period of 2 years. And if a dispute cannot be settled in 2 years, there is no good reason to believe that it can be settled in 4 years or in 10 years. It is, therefore, pertinent and appropriate that Congress should investigate this dispute, and the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare has so ordered. Congress has passed much legislation to sponsor and promote collective bargaining and the peaceful settlement of labor disputes. Many years ago Congress recognized the necessity of providing by legislation appropriate mechanisms for the adjustment of labor disputes in the railroad industry, and therefore passed the Railway Labor Act. It sets up elaborate procedures. Those procedures have been utilized to the fullest extent in this dispute, and yet it is not settled. 1 The committee hopes that by this hearing, by airing the issues, by examining the procedures established by the Railway Labor Act, and by publicly bringing together the parties, it may achieve two objectives: (1) To afford an impartial forum in which conflicting views can be tested and publicized; and (2) to find some legislative remedy which will prevent the recurrence of disputes of this type which are so dangerous to the public welfare. Accordingly all known parties have been invited to appear and participate in this hearing. Within the limits of our time, other persons who desire to testify will be heard. The committee hopes to hear three witnesses today, namely, Mr. Roy O. Hughes, president of the Order of Railway Conductors; Mr. W. E. B. Chase, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; and Mr. W. B. Kennedy, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Will the persons named step forward and be sworn, please? Mr. Hughes, Mr. Chase, and Mr. Kennedy, will you please raise your right hand and be sworn? You do solemnly swear that the testimony which you are about to give in this proceeding will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr. HUGHES. I do. Mr. KENNEDY. I do. The CHAIRMAN. The first witness, then, is Mr. Hughes. Mr. Hughes, I understand you have a prepared statement. Do you wish to follow the statement or will you summarize it? TESTIMONY OF ROY O. HUGHES, PRESIDENT, ORDER OF RAILWAY CONDUCTORS, WASHINGTON, D. C., ACCOMPANIED BY CHARLES A. HASTINGS, CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, COUNSEL Mr. HUGHES. I will offer the statement that I prepared for the record and will read from certain portions of it as my testimony here. The CHAIRMAN. And the entire statement will be carried in the record as if delivered. Mr. HUGHES. I would like to have that done. Thank you. Mr. HUGHES. I first express the sincere appreciation of the Order of Railway Conductors, of which I have the honor to be president, to the committee for this opportunity to present our views on the subject matter of your investigation. Our organization will cooperate fully in your inquiry and will be pleased to answer any questions within the limits of my information and to furnish any information available to us touching upon the dispute which brought forth this. investigation. Before discussing the dispute itself, it seems fitting that I give you a brief statement of my background, my railroad experience, and my work as a representative of railroad conductors. I began work for the Great Northern Railway as a machinist's helper and entered train service as a Northern Pacific Railway brakeman at Duluth, Minn., in the year 1907; worked as a Northern Pacific conduc |