WAGES AND Creation of three Regional Boards of Adjustment each composed of six members- Creation of a Committee of Wages and Working Conditions, composed of eight In determining the fairness, justice, and reasonableness of wages and salaries, the 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. Interstate Commerce Commission should not control (Elmquist) - 1606–1613 Permission of Interstate Commerce Commission before carrier under- 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) Accounting: 2685, 2689 Books of Great Lakes Transit Co. kept according to rules prescribed 1719 Expense of department of, should be reduced by use of up-to-date 2050 Letter of Chauncey G. Whiton to Hon. Wm. S. Greene, opposing any Provision to prevent discriminations between localities and kinds of 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.)‒‒‒ 3274 2459 Terms of, should be made applicable to traffic from adjacent foreign 10 Act of God, provision for losses by, under Warfield plan (Johnston)---- 1070 Congress in no way coerced by railroad brotherhoods into passing 767 Dissent of Mr. Justice McReynolds (Rowe) –. 908 Four brotherhoods unwilling participants at time of passage (Gar- 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 Bill proposed by Edgar J. Rich for raising money for railroad im- Page 400 3498 Chargeable to capital account (Lovett). 1324 Congress should provide, for an adequate upkeep and betterment of 516 Control of, under plan of organizing a United States Railroad Co. 1565 Decrease in (Johnson). 1513 Elimination of unnecessary (Thom). 1200 (Letter submitted by S. T. Bledsoe). Constitutionality questioned where permission necessary, be 3375 3376 1037-1038 Control of, under plan of organizing a United States Railroad 1565 332 Interstate Commerce Commission should have power to order: 717 718 916, 923-924 14, 23, 53, 62–63, 109, 123 Cammen 2235 520 Rich 2158 Interstate Commerce Commission should have power to order 332 Necessity for, should not be determined by the Interstate Com- Certificate of public convenience would not retard (Clark) – 2918 1353 Control over, by Interstate Commerce Commission, approved- Fewer miles constructed for years 1915-1918, than in any pre- 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 Additions and betterments-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 Administrative bodies, difficulties encountered in maintaining independent 1210-1211 Administrative function, Interstate Commerce Commission should be Made for the benefit of the public, have been perverted to the profit of 824 Privileges accorded railways for purpose of aiding the public in secur- 824 Values of grants made to railways have been capitalized as a part 822-823 Work of the Interstate Commerce Commission to ascertain and report Alaska: Endeavors and practices of Canadian lines to eliminate American Jurisdiction over water lines in, should be retained by Shipping Bunch 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 1766 1757 Alaska investigation, excerpt from (W. L. Clark). 2591 2515 Allegany Trades Council of Allegany County, Md., resolution adopted by, 3540 American Electric Railway Association, letter submitted by, relative to 3418 1306 Belief of, for adjustment of differences between employer and em- Composition of, a federation of international unions (Morrison). 558 558 564 Declaration of, upon subject of compulsory arbitration (Gompers) – 3126-3128 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 |