United States Flour Mill Company Underbilling of goods, discriminations by means of . United States Flour Mill Company, organization and capital Undermanning of Purchase abroad, advocated. 100 92, 100 26, 27, 137-139 6,57 175 175 6,54 176 160, 161 173 169 143 138 26, 27, 138 26, 137 Water transportation (see also Lake transportation; Ocean transportation): Classification, effect on.. Rates, effect on.. Weighing of goods, abuses connected with. Welland Canal, tolls on Western Classification Committee, methods of procedure Western States: General discriminations against.. Long and short haul, discriminations Y. M. C. A., railways, maintenance by.... 165, 170, 171 45 39,96 47 165 43 60 12, 61, 67 26, 159 INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. TRANSPORTATION. TOPICAL PLAN OF INQUIRY OF SUBCOMMISSION ON TRANSPORTATION. PART I.-TRANSPORTATION BY LAND IN ITS RELATION TO LABOR EMPLOYED THEREIN. CHARACTER OF DUTIES AND CLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES OF RAILROADS AND OTHER CARRIERS BY LAND; THEIR QUALIFICATIONS. WAGES OF EMPLOYEES. 1. Terms and conditions of employment; rates of wages of different classes of employees; basis and stability thereof; reductions and deductions, and their causes; discharge and suspension and the reasons therefor; blacklisting discharged employees; compulsory performance of service under mandatory injunction; proceedings for contempt, to that end, when railroad is in the hands of a receiver; power of courts in such cases under recent decisions. HOURS OF LABOR OF EMPLOYEES OF RAILROADS AND OTHER CARRIERS BY LAND. 2. Usual hours of labor exacted of different classes of employees. 3. Sunday labor and overtime; conditions under which required and compensation therefor; limitation thereon by State laws, and effect thereof on employees, carriers, and the public. LIABILITY OF RAILROADS TO EMPLOYEES FOR INJURIES SUSTAINED BY THE LATTER IN PERFORMANCE OF DUTY. 4. Extent of modification by statute of common-law rule as to negligence of fellow servants; legislation of the States thereon, and effect thereof; statutes authorizing persons dependent on employee to sue for damages when employee has been killed through negligence of railroad. 5. To what extent has doctrine of risks contemplated by voluntarily engaging in a dangerous occupation been modified by statute and judicial decisions? In what States has this been done? 6. Limited liability legislation as applicable to railway employees, its nature and effect. 7. Inadequate or defective appliances. PROVISION FOR SICK AND DISABLED EMPLOYEES. 8. Aid and benefit features of employees' associations; conditions and extent of relief. 9. Relief and aid to sick and disabled employees, by railroads and other carriers by land; conditions and extent thereof; its effect on relations of employer and employee. SAFETY APPLIANCES ON RAILROADS. 10. Automatic couplers, air-brakes, and hand-holds, on passenger and freight cars; percentage of freight cars so equipped; cost of such safety appliances on old and new cars; cause of delay by railroads in complying with requirement of act of Congress relating to safety appliances on freight cars. 11. Effect of increased use of automatic couplers, air-brakes, and hand-holds on freight cars on number of casualties to railway employees. 12. Other methods and devices for insuring safety of employees and passengers on railroads. ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF EMPLOYEES OF RAILWAYS AND OTHER CARRIERS BY LAND. 13. Their nature, purposes, and effect; proportion of employees belonging to them; extent of their control of their members; their effect on employees who are not members of such organizations. 3 DISPUTES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EMPLOYERS AND EMPLOYEES, 14. Usual subjects thereof. 15. Strikes, their causes; methods used in conducting them; their effects; their efficacy as a means of settling differences between railway employers and employees. 66 16. Boycotts;" in what do they differ from strikes. 17. Conciliation, mediation, and arbitration, and other methods of composing differences between railway employers and employees; consideration of State and Federal laws providing for conciliation, mediation, and arbitration. 18. State and Federal laws designed to repress strikes; judicial construction thereof and decisions thereon; anti-trust law as affecting railway strikes; transportation United States mail; its effects on strikes. 19. Compulsory arbitration; arguments for and against. 20. Use of intoxicants by railway employees; to what extent prohibited by employers; effect of such prohibition; observance thereof. RAILWAY METHODS IN RESPECT OF RATES, NEW BOND ISSUES, INCREASES OF CAPITAL STOCK AND CONSOLIDATION OF LINES, AS AFFECTING RAILWAY EMPLOYMENT AND RAILWAY WAGES. 21. Effects of rate wars and unrestrained rate competition upon railway employment and railway wages. 22. Effect of ticket brokerage upon railway employment and railway wages. 23. Effect of watering stock and unnecessary additions to bonded indebtedness upon railway employment and railway wages. 24. Effect of railway consolidations upon railway employment and railway wages. PART II.-DIVISION A.-TRANSPORTATION BY LAND IN ITS RELATION TO THE PUBLIC. IN RELATION TO PASSENGER TRAVEL. 25. Passenger rates; differences in different parts of the United States; causes and effects; local and through rates. 26. The practice of giving passes and reduced rates of fare to individuals; to whom, under what circumstances, and for what consideration are passes and reduced rates so granted by railway companies; effect of the practice on railway receipts; its effect on the traveling public; other effects thereof. 27. State laws prohibiting State officials from accepting or using passes; reasons for such laws; what States have enacted such laws; to what extent are they observed. 28. Advisability of effectually prohibiting the giving of such passes and reduced passenger rates to anyone; of limiting the giving of such special privileges to railway officials and employees. TICKET BROKERAGE. 29. In what the practice consists; mileage books and excursion tickets; number of people engaged in the business; by whom carried on; effect on passenger travel, interstate and intrastate; to what extent is it supported or encouraged by railroads, and for what purpose. 30. State laws prohibiting it; what States have enacted such laws. 31. Arguments for and against the abolition of ticket brokerage as now conducted. DIVISION B.-TRANSPORTATION BY LAND IN ITS RELATION TO THE CARRIAGE OF GOODS AND COMMODITIES. UNJUST DISCRIMINATIONS AND UNDUE PREFERENCES BY RAILROADS. 32. Against persons; against places; against other railways; manner of making the same; rebates, concessions, commissions; lower relative rates as between places; lower relative rates as between connecting railways; long and short haul; its meaning; when higher rates for short haul justified; when not justified; "Chicago Belt Lines;" their operation, and effect on rates of transportation through Chicago to the Atlantic seaboard and to the West; the "Free Cartage" case; effect of decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in that case. 33. Effect of unjust discriminations and undue preferences on persons, places, and the public; how they affect the producer, the middleman, and the consumer. |