Extending Period of Government Control of Railroads ... H.R. 13707. (Communications from Director General of Railroads). |
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... Interior ; Charles C. McChord , William R. Wilcox , and J. Harry Covington , appointed January 18 , 1918 , to " make a general investigation of the compensa- tion of persons in railroad service , the relation of railroad wages to wages ...
... Interior ; Charles C. McChord , William R. Wilcox , and J. Harry Covington , appointed January 18 , 1918 , to " make a general investigation of the compensa- tion of persons in railroad service , the relation of railroad wages to wages ...
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... interior . " Perhaps the United States will one day declare a policy of its own in this regard . Primarily it is a matter of national concern and not of railroad policy as to what system of rate making shall obtain so long as the ...
... interior . " Perhaps the United States will one day declare a policy of its own in this regard . Primarily it is a matter of national concern and not of railroad policy as to what system of rate making shall obtain so long as the ...
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... interior points of this section , has imposed upon it freight rates ranging from 50 to 150 per cent higher than from the same point and upon the same goods to Cairo , Memphis , and other river cities . " This enormous , penalizing , and ...
... interior points of this section , has imposed upon it freight rates ranging from 50 to 150 per cent higher than from the same point and upon the same goods to Cairo , Memphis , and other river cities . " This enormous , penalizing , and ...
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... interior the river traffic would be immedi- ately revived . " It seems to us in the interior that any man who would give this as an excuse or let it in any manner control his action in the matter , when he has any authority over the ...
... interior the river traffic would be immedi- ately revived . " It seems to us in the interior that any man who would give this as an excuse or let it in any manner control his action in the matter , when he has any authority over the ...
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... interior . " This alone , we think , if figured correctly by any railroad system , would develop a startling taxation without recompense levied upon the business of the interior . " Yet another very serious and unreasonable imposition ...
... interior . " This alone , we think , if figured correctly by any railroad system , would develop a startling taxation without recompense levied upon the business of the interior . " Yet another very serious and unreasonable imposition ...
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Page 7 - An Act to provide for the operation of transportation systems while under Federal control, for the just compensation of their owners and for other purposes...
Page 17 - The pay for female employees, for the same class of work, shall be the same as that of men, and their working conditions must be healthful and fitted to their needs. The laws enacted for the government of their employment must be observed.
Page 6 - I do not, or I have not, at least, felt that it was necessary to take the actual ownership of the railroads. I believe that it will be impossible after the return of peace to restore the competitive conditions to the same extent as they existed prior to the outbreak of the war. I favor some form of governmental regulation and control of a far stronger, more intelligent, and effective character than we have had heretofore, because I am satisfied that a stronger Government control will be demanded...
Page 7 - ... The present conditions of car distribution throughout the United States have no parallel in our history. In some territories the railroads have furnished but a small part of the cars necessary for the transportation of staple articles of commerce, such as coal, grain, lumber, fruits, and vegetables.
Page 34 - ... rates that will enable them to accomplish that result, although such rates may discriminate against intermediate points. Under such an interpretation of the statutes in question, they may well be regarded as recognizing the authority of competing railroad companies engaged in interstate commerce — when their interests will be subserved thereby — to build up favored centres of population at the expense of the business of the country at large.
Page 16 - Commission shall make a general investigation of the compensation of persons in the railroad service, the relation of railroad wages to wages in other industries, the conditions respecting wages in different parts of the country, the special emergency respecting wages which exists at this time owing to war conditions and the high cost of living, as well as the relation between different classes of railroad labor.
Page 34 - ... return upon the value of their property. The people may say (1) that railroad rates shall be made so as to carry all products into all markets within the four lines of the country; or (2) that after a certain narrow limit is passed the whole of the land shall be one zone; or (3) a system of rates that will keep producers and consumers as near together as possible and eliminate waste in transportation. These are national questions. They go to the very future of our industrial life. Upon their...
Page 39 - Nos. 205, 342, 343, 344, 349, 350, and 352, on behalf of the Transcontinental Freight Bureau, by RH Countiss, agent, for relief from the provisions of the fourth section of the act to regulate commerce as amended June 18, 1910, with respect to rates made from eastern points of shipment which are higher to intermediate points than to Pacific coast terminals.
Page 7 - July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, relinquish control of all or any part of any railroad or system of transportation, further Federal control of which the President shall deem not needful or desirable; and the President may at any time during the period of Federal control agree with the owners thereof to relinquish all or any part of any railroad or system of transportation. The President may relinquish all railroads and systems of transportation under Federal control at any time he shall...
Page 7 - That the Federal control of railroads and transportation systems herein and heretofore provided for shall continue for and during the period of the war and for a reasonable time thereafter, which shall not exceed one year and nine months next following the date of the proclamation by the President of the exchange of ratifications of the treaty of peace...