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Trains Magazine 1962 May Scrapbook of early diesels All diesel issue
Trains Magazine 1962 May
May 1962Volume 22 Number 7
NEWS - - -3
DIESEL NEWS PHOTOS -8
MOST FAMOUS OF FACES14
STUDY IN HORSEPOWER -16
EARLY DIESELDOM DAYS24
SUPER CHIEF--30
HALLS OF BALDWIN -42
Cover: Publicity pose of 1937 accents long nose of rare 1200 h.p. Rocket cab unit by EMC.
Railway post office 50Running extra 53
Second section51Interchange58
WHAT PRICE "PRESIDENTIAL"?
ON the last day of February President John F. Kennedy was handed the 576-page report of the 15-man Presidential Railroad Commission which was appointed in December 1960 to study work-rules affecting the railroads' 200,000 operating employees. The Commission, composed of five public, five industry, and five union members, was presented with 15,503 pages of testimony and 319 exhibits during its hearing; had access to studies made by its own staff; and, in the case of the public members, made several field trips to examine road and yard operations firsthand. President Kennedy accepted the report with thanks, stating, "I know that both sides agree with me that in serving the national interest, they serve their own interest best." As for the Commission itself, the vote to accept its recommendations was, more or less expectedly, 10 to 5. The public members, all of them lawyers, economists, and/or university personnel, voted unanimously for the report. The carrier reps thought that certain provisions were questionable, particularly those pay and severance allowances which would "place an added burden on the already hard-pressed railroads," nevertheless they accepted the full report, "the public interest being paramount." Brotherhood reception can be gauged by the fact that three of the union members filed 150 pages' worth of dissenting opinions, one even refused to sign the letter of transmittal to the President and confessed his regret that he hadn't earlier resigned from the group, and - from Cleveland -Grand Chief Engineer Roy E. Davidson of the BofLE declared, "It is totally unacceptable. I can't find printable language to express the repugnance, indignation, resentment, and disappointment which locomotive engineers will feel when they are informed of the contents."
In essence, the Commission went along with the industry's contentions that operating work-rules and pay methods have not kept pace with technology. Accordingly, it recommended that firemen be retained only on passenger locomotives and gradually be dropped from nonsteam freight and yard engines; that road employees perform a limited amount of switching and terminal work on their own trains (and that yard crews be eliminated where the volume of work is insufficient) ; and that the dual basis of pay, currently based on miles or hours be revised to combine both miles and hours as components. Additionally, the Commission pointed toward a gradual reduction in retirement age so that by 1967 the mandatory pension age will be 65; and it recommended that the maximum numbers
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