Railway Labor Act: Hearings...on S. 2306...Jan. 14-Feb. 10, 1926 |
Common terms and phrases
adjustment board agree agreement amendment appointed arbi Association August 29 award board of arbitration board of mediation Brotherhood carriers CHAIRMAN Chicago committee compel compulsion conference Congress construed controversy court decision dispute electric railways emergency board EMERY Erdman Act fact Federal Federal Trade Commission gentlemen going Government hearing HENRY Howell-Barkley bill industrial interruption Interstate Commerce Commission Interstate Commerce Committee interurban labor or service language legislation machinery matter Mediation and Conciliation ment Newlands Act operation parties present President proposed protection public interest question railroad executives Railroad Labor Board railroad system railway employees RAILWAY LABOR ACT record representatives RICHBERG roads Senate bill Senator BRUCE Senator COUZENS Senator FESS Senator HOWELL Senator PITTMAN Senator SACKETT Senator WHEELER settle settlement situation statement status quo steam railroad strike suggest thing Thom tion transportation act United wages WILLARD word steam
Popular passages
Page 21 - ... from one State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or Territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from any place in the United States...
Page 151 - ... clerks, and other employees as it may from time to time find necessary for the proper performance of its duties and as may be from time to time appropriated for by Congress.
Page 8 - That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 124 - Act, shall be handled in the usual manner up to and including the chief operating officer of the carrier designated to handle such disputes; but, failing to reach an adjustment in this manner, the disputes may be referred by petition of the parties or by either party to the appropriate division of the Adjustment Board with a full statement of the facts and all supporting data bearing upon the disputes.
Page 21 - ... from obtaining employment, is hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof in any court of the United States of competent jurisdiction in the district in which such offense was committed, shall be punished for each offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars.
Page 18 - That the provisions of this act shall apply to any common carrier or carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers or property wholly by railroad, or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used, under a common control, management, or arrangement, for a continuous carriage or shipment...
Page 23 - The board of mediation shall thereupon promptly communicate with the members of the board of arbitration, or a subcommittee of such board appointed for such purpose pursuant to...
Page 3 - ... the date of the taking effect of this Act, the term of each to be designated by the President, but their successors shall be appointed for terms of seven years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the commissioner whom he shall succeed.
Page 27 - Third. Representatives, for the purposes of this Act, shall be designated by the respective parties in such manner as may be provided in their corporate organization or unincorporated association, or by other means of collective action, without interference, influence, or coercion exercised by either party over the selforganization or designation of representatives by the other.
Page 199 - Act and should, in the judgment of the Mediation Board, threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce to a degree such as to deprive any section of the country of essential transportation service...