[PRCo] Re: How we feel about Numero Uno

[Fred Schneider]

Guess what ... 1932 the Railways Company furloughed 250 trainmen and  
the older farts still would not take shorter work weeks.


On Dec 26, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Electric Railway Journal, volume 74, Number 9, August 1930:
> "Pittsburgh Railways trainmen defeated a proposal that they work on a
> 6-day instead of a 7-day schedule to save jobs of 300 now or soon to
> be placed on the extra list."
>
> Two things strike me as being interesting.   First off, when you have
> 3000 or so trainmen, it isn't hard to find enough high seniority men
> who don't care about youngsters.   Second, they worked long days and
> long weeks to earn a living but it was still heaven compared to being
> on the wrong end of a coal scoop on a steam locomotive or suffering
> in a steel mill.
>
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