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Politics of Railroad Coordination, The 1933-1936 by Earl Latham with dust jacket
Politics of Railroad Coordination, The by Earl Latham 1933-1936
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket (has damage around edges)
338 pages
Copyright 1959
CONTENTS
I. A NOTE OF INTRODUCTION1
II. THE SALT LAKE CITY LINE8
The Salt Lake City Speech8
The Coolidge Committee11
Reorganizing the Commission15
Eastman on Federal Operation17
Railroad Reorganization26
III. THE COMPROMISE OF GROUP INTERESTS35
Hearings of the First Roper Committee37
Report of the First Roper Committee46
The Second Roper Committee48
IV. THE CONGRESSIONAL LIMITED56
The Pattern of Interest57
The Case for the "Carriers' Bill"59
The Scramble for Group Security63
Reactions to the Measure79
V. PATTERNS OF COORDINATION84
Public Ownership of the Railroads86
Grand Consolidations101
Railroads and the NRA110
VI. COORDINATION: CONCEPT AND ORGANIZATION116
The Dominant Concepts: Conciliations, Consultations,
and Compromise116
Committees and Consultation117
Conciliation and Compromise119
The Power to Order121
The Coordinator's Organization127
VII. THE COORDINATOR'S OFFICE140
Staffing the Office140
Financing the Office147
Relations with Other Agencies149
Eastman and Roosevelt151
VIII. THE MORE PERFECT UNION164
Early Steps Toward Private Coordination166
The Framing of the Constitution168
Development of the AAR177
The AAR and Federal Agencies182
Appraisals of the AAR185
IX. REPORTS AND REPERCUSSIONS195
The Traffic Reports196
Freight Traffic Report201
Passenger Traffic Report205
Purchasing and Standardization207
Car Pooling211
Fiscal Work212
Grain Elevators212
The Railroad Labor Reports214
The Public Aids Report215
X. COORDINATING THE COMPETITION217
Eastman's General Transportation Policy218
The National Transportation Conference219
The Legislative Program of the Unions222
Regulating the Motor Carriers225
The Water Carriers235
Coordinating the Commission240
XI. END OF THE LINE244
Termination and the Terminals244
The Washington Agreement248
End of the Line253
None to Mourn257
Railroad Labor259
Exeunt Omnes265
XII. A MATTER OF ADMINISTRATIVE STYLE267
APPENDIX279
NOTES287
INDEX 333
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Coming at a time when the railroad industry is suffering acutely from its chronic problems,
The Politics of Railroad Coordination is a thought-provoking application of power group analysis to an important effort in the early days of the New Deal to get the railroads to work together for their self-betterment. Professor Latham, in this analysis of the politics of administration, makes much use of hitherto unpublished letters and memoranda written by Joseph B. Eastman, long-time member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Federal Coordinator of Transportation during the three years covered in this volume.
The book focuses on the effort of Mr. Eastman under the Emergency Railroad Transportation Act of 1933 to encourage or require the railroad carriers to adopt policies designed to reduce waste and preventable expense. When the railroad carriers learned that Eastman would not permit them to reduce working forces by unsanctioned methods, they lost whatever interest they had in cooperating with his programs; and, by inaction, they virtually vetoed most of his proposals. When Eastman tried to exercise his authority as though it were power, the railroads combined with the unions to deprive him of his authority, showing that power and authority are not always the same thing.
The major hypotheses that the study tends to verify may be stated as follows: Regulatory administration is primarily a problem of power, and not of law or management engineering; effective power is based upon and organized through groups, both in the Government and in the industry to be regulated; policy tends to emerge as the by-product of the tensions of power both in legislation and administration; power and authority are different, to the extent at least that power may be lodged in one place and authority in another; administrative style (the self-image of the administrator), while it may not be decisive in the success of a program, is certainly influential; the embolism of offsetting groups in the administrative stream is a painful disease that some administrative styles tend to make chronic.
Earl Latham is Joseph B. Eastman Professor of Political Science and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Amherst College.
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