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1. Harris & Ewing 15 percent wage cut for rail employees necessary, Counsel tells fact finding board. Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. Testifying at the initial hearing of President Roosevelt's fact finding committee today J. Carter Fort, Chief Counsel for the Carriers Joint Conference Committee declared that a 15 percent wage cut for 900,000 railroad employees is necessary to save railroads from disaster. Rail employees have threatened a general walkout if the cut if put into effect. Seated are members of the fact-finding committee pictured left to right: Harry A. Millis, Walter P. Stacy, Chairman and James M. Landis, 9/30/38 [19]38 September 30

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2. Harris & Ewing C.I.O. Chief luncheon guest of president Washington, D.C., May 20. John L. Lewis, C.I.O. Head, arriving at the White House today where he was a luncheon guest of President Roosevelt. While the chief executive said Lewis did not come to the White House to confer on political matters, significance, however, was attached to the fact that the meeting follows by three days the defeat of Lewis backed candidates in Pennsylvania's primaries last Tuesday, 5/20/38 [19]38 May 20

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3. Harris & Ewing Present rail wage same as in 1920 when under government control, fact finding committee told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. Present railroad wages are on approximately the same level as in 1920 when the roads were controlled by the government, Bert M. Jewell, President of the A.F. of L.'s railway employees, told President Roosevelt's fact finding board today. He contended that because railroad workers have made "little or no progress" in improving their wages rates since then, they should now be called upon to accept the 15 percent reduction demanded by the carriers, 10/8/38 [19]38 October 24

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4. Harris & Ewing Fewer jobs unless railroads get proper share of traffic, fact finding commission told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. A.F. Cleveland, Traffic Vice President of the Association of American Railroads, today told President Roosevelt's fact finding commission that unless railroads obtain their proper share of traffic, there will be fewer jobs. Cleveland, supporting the rail carriers' proposal for a 15 percent wage cut; said that the Railroad Industry "is no longer even a semi-monopoly," 10/3/38 [19]38 October 3

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5. Harris & Ewing Wage reductions are necessary, N.Y. Central Prexy tells fact finding board. Washington, D.C., Oct. 6. Wage reductions are necessary to enable railroads to balance their budgets and meet competition, F.E. Williamson, President of the N.Y. Central Railroad, told President's fact finding board today. He added that unbalanced budgets tend to divert business to competing industries and increase railroad unemployment. Williamson declared that the New York Central's deficit for the first eight months of this year was $20,500,000. The largest ever incurred for a similar period, 10/6/38 [19]38 October 6

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6. Harris & Ewing President's fact finding committee on threatened rail strike begin hearings. Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. President Roosevelt's fact finding committee, recently names to investigate the threatened railroad strike, began open hearings at the Capitol today. Pictured, left to right: Harry A. Millis, Walter P. Stacy, Chairman, and James M. Landis, 9/30/38 [19]38 September 30

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7. Harris & Ewing Fact finding board Chairman intent as he hears final argument on wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy; chairman of the president's fact finding board, ponders as he listens to final argument by Charles MacKay, counsel for 18 railroad labor organizations, non labor's opposition to the railroads demand for a 15 percent cut in wages. The boards findings will go to President Roosevelt with recommendations by Oct. 27, 10/17/38 [19]38 October 17

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8. Harris & Ewing California labor relationist charges AF of L fostered labor disturbances to discredit Wagner Act. Washington, D.C., May 9. George C. Kidwell, Director of the California State Department of Industrial Relations, charged today before the Senate Education and Labor Committee that the AF of L had deliberately fostered labor disturbances to discredit the Wagner Act. He said that in Westwood, a California lumber town, CIO members had been driven out by company agents and that in two weeks there was not a member of any union in town. 'In the face of this fact, it is the Labor Board that is charged with thwarting the 'democratic rights of the workers,'' he said [19]39 May 9

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9. Harris & Ewing C.I.O. Chief luncheon guest of president Washington, D.C., May 20. John L. Lewis, C.I.O. Head, arriving at the White House today where he was a luncheon guest of President Roosevelt. While the chief executive said Lewis did not come to the White House to confer on political matters, significance, however, was attached to the fact that the meeting follows by three days the defeat of Lewis backed candidates in Pennsylvania's primaries last Tuesday, 5/20/38

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10. Harris & Ewing 15 percent wage cut for rail employees necessary, Counsel tells fact finding board. Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. Testifying at the initial hearing of President Roosevelt's fact finding committee today J. Carter Fort, Chief Counsel for the Carriers Joint Conference Committee declared that a 15 percent wage cut for 900,000 railroad employees is necessary to save railroads from disaster. Rail employees have threatened a general walkout if the cut if put into effect. Seated are members of the fact-finding committee pictured left to right: Harry A. Millis, Walter P. Stacy, Chairman and James M. Landis, 9/30/38

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11. Harris & Ewing In huddle at rail facts finding hearing. Washington, D.C., Oct. 6. H.A. Scandrett, (left) trustee for Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul R.R., and F.E. Williamson, President of the New York Central, go into a last-minute huddle before Williamson took the stand to describe the railroad's financial troubles to the President's fact finding committee today at the Capitol, 10/6/38 [19]38 October 6

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12. Harris & Ewing "Rail Wages have increased 37 percent since 1929"-- facts finding commission told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 4. Dr. Wilfort I. King, Professor of economics at New York University, told the President's fact finding commission today that the average wages of railroad employees, measured in terms of buying power, increased 37 percent since 1929. He added, hourly earnings of railroad men have increased 15 percent while cost of living has fallen 16 percent in the same time, 10/4/38 [19]38 October 4

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13. Harris & Ewing Listens in on facts finding hearing. Washington, D.C., Oct. 6. Charles E. Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad, listens intently as F.E. Williamson, N.Y. Central head describes to the President's fact finding board the financial troubles railroads are experiencing today. Donnelly is a member of the six-man committee of Labor and Management representatives which President Roosevelt appointed to devise a broad plan of rail and legislation for the next congress, 10/6/38 [19]38 October 6

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14. Harris & Ewing Appears before Roosevelt fact finding committee. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. H.A. Enoch's, Chairman of the Carrier's Joint Conference Committee, today traced the history of collective bargaining of rail unions with the carriers. He asserted that since the 15 percent wage reduction notice was served on the unions, "our employees have refused to face the facts". "We have offered to submit the dispute to an arbitration board, whose decision, by law, is binding," Enoch's said. "The employees refused arbitration. Instead, they took a strike vote." that is why we are here today, 10/7/38 [19]38 October 7

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15. Harris & Ewing Fewer jobs unless railroads get proper share of traffic, fact finding commission told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 3. A.F. Cleveland, Traffic Vice President of the Association of American Railroads, today told President Roosevelt's fact finding commission that unless railroads obtain their proper share of traffic, there will be fewer jobs. Cleveland, supporting the rail carriers' proposal for a 15 percent wage cut; said that the Railroad Industry "is no longer even a semi-monopoly," 10/3/38

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16. Harris & Ewing Wage reductions are necessary, N.Y. Central Prexy tells fact finding board. Washington, D.C., Oct. 6. Wage reductions are necessary to enable railroads to balance their budgets and meet competition, F.E. Williamson, President of the N.Y. Central Railroad, told President's fact finding board today. He added that unbalanced budgets tend to divert business to competing industries and increase railroad unemployment. Williamson declared that the New York Central's deficit for the first eight months of this year was $20,500,000. The largest ever incurred for a similar period, 10/6/38

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17. Harris & Ewing President's fact finding committee on threatened rail strike begin hearings. Washington, D.C., Sept. 30. President Roosevelt's fact finding committee, recently names to investigate the threatened railroad strike, began open hearings at the Capitol today. Pictured, left to right: Harry A. Millis, Walter P. Stacy, Chairman, and James M. Landis, 9/30/38

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18. Harris & Ewing Fact finding board Chairman intent as he hears final argument on wage cut. Washington, D.C., Oct. 17. Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy; chairman of the president's fact finding board, ponders as he listens to final argument by Charles MacKay, counsel for 18 railroad labor organizations, non labor's opposition to the railroads demand for a 15 percent cut in wages. The boards findings will go to President Roosevelt with recommendations by Oct. 27, 10/17/38

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19. Harris & Ewing Present rail wage same as in 1920 when under government control, fact finding committee told. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. Present railroad wages are on approximately the same level as in 1920 when the roads were controlled by the government, Bert M. Jewell, President of the A.F. of L.'s railway employees, told President Roosevelt's fact finding board today. He contended that because railroad workers have made "little or no progress" in improving their wages rates since then, they should now be called upon to accept the 15 percent reduction demanded by the carriers, 10/8/38

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20. Harris & Ewing TVA foes join in attempt to force inquiry. Washington, D.C., Mar. 14. Foes of the Tennessee Valley Authority pooled forces today in an attempt to override administration opposition and obtain a Congressional investigation of the power agency. Senators William H. King (D.) of Utah, right, and H. Style Bridges, (R) of New Hampshire, said that President's Roosevelt's intervention Friday in the feud between TVA Chairman Morgan and his codiretors, Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan had settled nothing, despite the fact that the President told the Directors to settle their dispute or resign, 3/14/38 [19]38 March 14

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