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WAGES AND

Creation of three Regional Boards of Adjustment each composed of six members-
three representing labor and three the railway carriers-to hear and determine all
complaints, grievances, and disputes other than controversies relating to wages and
working conditions; with appeal to the Committee of Wages and Working Conditions
in case of a deadlock.

Creation of a Committee of Wages and Working Conditions, composed of eight
members-four representing labor and four the railway carriers-to have jurisdic-
tion over controversies respecting wages and working conditions of employees; with
appeal to the Transportation Board in case of a deadlock.

In determining the fairness, justice, and reasonableness of wages and salaries, the
Board shall take into consideration: (a) Thesales of wages paid for similar kinds

terest.

Creation of three boards of adjustment, each authorized to hear and decide all controversies between the railroads and certain classes of their employees with regard to wages, hours of service, and conditions of employment; and three commissions on labor disputes to mae final decisions on all matters referred to them by the three boards of adjustment. Board of Adjustment No. 1, composed of eight membersfour representing the engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen, and four representing the railroad executives. Commission on Labor Disputes No. 1, composed of eight members similarly chosen.

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Interstate Commerce Commission should not control (Elmquist) - 1606–1613
None should be permitted, where road with reasonable divisions can
be made to earn an operating income (Cain).

Permission of Interstate Commerce Commission before carrier under-
takes (Clark) –.

Properties operating at a loss (Clark).

Abilene Cotton Oil Co. case (204 U. S., 426).

Accidents:

1871

14, 23, 53, 62-63, 109, 123

2872-2873, 2880

2895

2686

European countries less than United States (Stephens)
Persons killed and injured by collisions and derailments (Williams) - 2674
Report of Interstate Commerce Commission on number of, 1917
(Chairman).

Accounting:

2685, 2689

Books of Great Lakes Transit Co. kept according to rules prescribed
by Interstate Commerce Commission (Evans)_.

1719

Expense of department of, should be reduced by use of up-to-date
machinery (Morton)_.

2050

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Letter of Chauncey G. Whiton to Hon. Wm. S. Greene, opposing any
attempt to extend, to inland waterways (Edmonds).

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Provision to prevent discriminations between localities and kinds of
traffic not contained in (Spelling).

2387

Purpose of (Cunningham).

2479

Section 1, proposed amendment to (Swobe).

1978

Section 3, discussed (Spelling).

2404

66

Suggested changes in (letter submitted by J. W. Paxson Co.)‒‒‒
Term common carrier" as used in, does not include water car-
riers (Hill)

3274

2459

Terms of, should be made applicable to traffic from adjacent foreign
country to United States (Clark)-

10

Act of God, provision for losses by, under Warfield plan (Johnston)----
Adamson Act:

1070

Congress in no way coerced by railroad brotherhoods into passing
(Garretson)‒‒‒‒‒

767

Dissent of Mr. Justice McReynolds (Rowe) –.

908

Four brotherhoods unwilling participants at time of passage (Gar-
retson)

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Upholding of, by Supreme Court (243 U. S., 332), referred to

(Rowe).

901, 904

Additions and betterments:

Assumption that in 1907, none proportionate to necessities of people
made, false (Wimbish).

Bill proposed by Edgar J. Rich for raising money for railroad im-
provements

Page

400

3498

Chargeable to capital account (Lovett).

1324

Congress should provide, for an adequate upkeep and betterment of
railroad properties (Mason)---.

516

Control of, under plan of organizing a United States Railroad Co.
(Anderson)

1565

Decrease in (Johnson).

1513

Elimination of unnecessary (Thom).

1200

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(Letter submitted by S. T. Bledsoe).
(Letter submitted by Edgar E. Clark).

Constitutionality questioned where permission necessary, be
fore made (Johnson)--

3375

3376

1037-1038

Control of, under plan of organizing a United States Railroad
Co. (Anderson)---

1565

332

Interstate Commerce Commission should have power to order:
Amster
Clark

717

718

916, 923-924

14, 23, 53, 62–63, 109, 123
Lack of credit, cause of none being made (Plumb)_.
Needed badly in certain portions of the country (Plumb) -
No objection to certificate of convenience (Decker)
Power of Interstate Commerce Commission to require (Freer)
Failure to provide for, due to inadequacy of rates (Leigh)----
Financing of new improvements, plan for--

Cammen

2235
2279

520

Rich

2158

Interstate Commerce Commission should have power to order
(Amster)

332

Necessity for, should not be determined by the Interstate Com-
merce Commission (Rich)_.

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Certificate of public convenience would not retard (Clark) –
Cessation of, not wholly attributable to the Interstate Com-
merce Commission (Lovett) ------

2918

1353

Control over, by Interstate Commerce Commission, approved-
Clark

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Fewer miles constructed for years 1915-1918, than in any pre-
vious year since 1848 (Thom) ---

1184

Government financing of, approved-

Cowan

890

Hunt

Government needs no constitutional authority for (Plumb).

Governmental function (Plumb).

Inadequacy of rates, cause of cessation in (Leigh).

Intrastate, should be left entirely to State control (Barrett). 2198-2799

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Additions and betterments-Continued.
New lines, construction of-Continued.

Requirement of certificate of convenience and necessity before-

Clark

Decker.

Lenroot

Robinson

Rowe

Should be left with State authorities (Rowe).

Texas State statute with reference to (Rowe).

Nonrevenue producing improvements (Erb)

Provisions for, as proposed in Plumb plan (Plumb) -

Public tribunal should determine necessity for (Fulbright).

Page.

132, 2918

916, 923-924

2129

1955

894

894, 897

895

2309

633

401

Surplus income of good years to provide for, in poor years (Johnson) - 1518
Adjacent foreign country. (See Foreign countries.)

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Administrative bodies, difficulties encountered in maintaining independent
judgment of members of (Thom)----

1210-1211

Administrative function, Interstate Commerce Commission should be
relieved of:

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Made for the benefit of the public, have been perverted to the profit of
private owners (Plumb) __

824

Privileges accorded railways for purpose of aiding the public in secur-
ing transportation at a cost less than could have been obtained had
such grants not been made (Plumb).

824

Values of grants made to railways have been capitalized as a part
of the value of the properties (Plumb).

822-823

Work of the Interstate Commerce Commission to ascertain and report
the value of, made to railway corporations has not been done
(Plumb)

Alaska:

Endeavors and practices of Canadian lines to eliminate American
trade with (W. L. Clark) ___.

Jurisdiction over water lines in, should be retained by Shipping
Board-

Bunch
Law

Protection of American trade with (W. L. Clark).

822

2612

1771

1756, 1776

2610

Rail-and-water and all-water rates should be subject to jurisdiction
of Interstate Commerce Commission (letter of Thos. Riggs, jr.) –
Underlying dangers if water lines of, placed under jurisdiction of the
Interstate Commerce Commission, paper prepared by J. H. Bunch
(Law)

1766

1757

Alaska investigation, excerpt from (W. L. Clark).
Alexander, Hon. J. W., statement of..

2591

2515

Allegany Trades Council of Allegany County, Md., resolution adopted by,
advocating passage of Sims bill_

3540

American Electric Railway Association, letter submitted by, relative to
exclusion of electric railways from provisions of Cummins bill.
American Express Co. v. Caldwell (244 U. S., 617) __
American Federation of Labor:

3418

1306

Belief of, for adjustment of differences between employer and em-
ployee by collective bargaining (Morrison) –

Composition of, a federation of international unions (Morrison).
Compulsory arbitration opposed by (Morrison) __.

558

558

564

Declaration of, upon subject of compulsory arbitration (Gompers) – 3126-3128
Government ownership of railways, telephones, and telegraph wires,
waterways and water power approved by (Morrison).
Nonpartisan political organization (Morrison).

555, 569, 571

556

Political policy of (Morrison).

584

Resolution introduced at convention of, at Atlantic City, N. J., on

June 17, 1919 (Morrison).

553-554

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