[PRCo] UMW blamed for diesels

[John Swindler]

Easier to blame another industry/organization than to look at the economics of railroad operation.  Some of David Morgan's writing talk about the reduction/elimination of labor costs associated with conversion to diesel - despite the high initial capital costs for diesel operation.  
 
 
 

 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 14:33:45 -0400
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] UMW blamed for diesels
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> Writer forgets that the PRR announced several days earlier that it would cooperate with smoke control.   Blame cannot be totally based on either smoke control, economics or John L. Lewis and his boys.  
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> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3025%2C2594239
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