LABOR DISPUTE BETWEEN RAILROAD CARRIERS AND
FOUR OPERATING RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE.
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

LABOR DISPUTE BETWEEN RAILROAD CARRIERS AND
FOUR OPERATING RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS

FEBRUARY 22, 26, 27, MARCH 1, 5, 7, 12, 14, 15,
16, 21, 22, 28, 29, 30, APRIL 3, AND 5, 1951

Printed for the use of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

Testimony of—

Bendetsen, Hon. Karl R., Assistant Secretary of the Army (General

Management); accompanied by Fred Korth, Deputy Counselor, De-

partment of the Army--.

Bickers, Thomas E., secretary, National Mediation Board_

Prepared statement_-_.

Page

571, 657

Chase, William E. B., vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad

Trainmen, Detroit, Mich.

808

817

28, 82

Hughes, Roy O., president, Order of Railway Conductors, Washington,

D. C., accompanied by Charles A. Hastings, Cedar Rapids, Iowa,

counsel, and V. C. Shuttleworth, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, coun-

sel

2,277, 698, 755

Kennedy, W. P., president, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen_ 265, 528, 677

Loomis, Daniel P., chairman, the Association of Western Railways,

Chicago, Ill_____.

325, 353, 403, 438, 500, 503, 507, 547, 783

Oliver, Eli L., manager, Washington office, Labor Bureau of the Mid-

dle West---

O'Neill, Francis A., Jr., member, National Mediation Board, accom-

panied by Thomas E. Bickers, secretary, National Mediation

Board

599

312, 496

Robertson, D. B., president, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and

Enginemen, Cleveland, Ohio.

90, 133, 692, 722

Scott, John Thad, Jr., chairman, National Mediation Board, accom-

panied by Thomas E. Bickers, secretary, National Mediation

Board

284, 311, 435, 488, 566

Shields, J. P., grand chief engineer, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-

neers, accompanied by Guy L. Brown, first assistant grand chief

engineer; Clifford D. O'Brien, counsel, and Frank P. Douglas, sec-

retary to Mr. Shields__

158, 173, 162, 166–171, 211, 688, 706

Prepared statement.

Additional information supplied by-

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad: Telegram from G. P. Stanton, secretary of

the general committee to Senator Matthew M. Neely--

Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers:

Exhibit No. 1: Proposition for settling interdivisional run_

Exhibits 2-A to 2-H: Telegrams from J. P. Shields, grand chief

engineer, to general chairman___

Exhibit No. 3: Memorandum of phone conversation from S. H.

Pullian of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

160

81

183

185, 190

198

Exhibit No. 4: Carriers' proposals submitted at Mediation Board
meeting February 12, 1951; filed with committee__

Exhibit No. 5: Proposal submitted on February 13, 1951, by the

four organizations to the National Mediation Board..

Exhibit No. 6: Memorandum, "Article 4, 'Interdivisional runs’"

"Article 5, 'More than one class of railroad service'"; "Article

7, 'Yard-switching limits' ".

216

217

217

Exhibit No. 7: Communication and attachments; filed with com-
mittee_.

Exhibit No. 8: Letter to counsel with attachments.

Exhibits Nos. 1A through H: Various papers by D. B. Robertson

re December 21 agreement.

103

Exhibit No. 2: Constitution; filed with committee--

119

Exhibit No. 3: Number of nonoperating employees per million

revenue traffic units, class I steam railways in the United

States_

123

107

140