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Trains Magazine 1959 October Cow and Calf in pig's eye
Trains Magazine 1959 October
October 1959Volume 19 Number 12
NEWS - -5
NEWS PHOTOS - -8
CASEY WOULDN'T BELIEVE IT16
PUSH BUTTONS AT PIG'S EYE18
MEET THE BLACK MARIA24
BALDWINS OF UPPER PINE26
TRAINS TAKES A TRAIN -36
PHOTO SECTION-40
Railway post office 52Second section 56
Of books & trains55Running extra 57
Interchange58
COVER: EMD cow-and-calf diesel idles in Pig's Eye Yard of Milwaukee Road. W. D. Middleton.
ABOUT "MANAGEMENT-BAITING"
WHAT would be your reaction if the Association of American Railroads began mimeographing press releases which claimed that the O.R.C. was composed of rude conductors, that the fireman was probably asleep in most rear-end collisions, and that unless the brotherhoods cleaned house the Government might just as well draft all operating employees? We assume you would be surprised, indeed shocked. Certainly the A.A.R. would have rendered itself vulnerable to the charge of labor-baiting. No doubt a hundred newspaper editorialists would rush to their Royals and Under-woods and peck out Billy Vanderbilt's hoary and misquoted "Public be damned!" J. Handley Wright, A.A.R.'s p.r. veep, would be out of a job and President Daniel P. Loomis himself would probably have to resign under fire.
But the supposition ceases to be strange and turns into plain fact if you cross the tracks. Ever since TRAINS declared itself on the side of Canadian Pacific in its bid to cease hiring diesel firemen [page 5, March 1957 TRAINS] and particularly since Loomis said in a February 11 St. Louis speech that the railroads wanted to modernize work rules upon the expiration of present contracts October 31, 1959, we have been inundated with speeches, press releases, "fact sheets," and assorted other mimeographed ammunition from the brotherhood camp. All of it has been read and assimilated, sentence for sentence. Did you know, for instance, that rail labor regards the freight-car shortage as management's "colossal blunder" or that track motor car accidents amount to "unconscionable slaughter"? Are you aware that management is "living in a dream world," happily recalling monopoly days "when from the gaudy interiors of their private cars, the railroad presidents exercised tremendous power . .. had only to snap their fingers and cause mayors of cities, governors of states, and even United States senators to jump to their command"? Do you agree that "we don't believe the railways want to compete" and that "we cannot avoid concluding that if the course of railroad management is irretrievably set in its present direction, serious consideration must be given to government ownership and operation in order to take care of national defense, and so that the public will have the backbone of transportation service that it needs"?
We submit that the language and the logic is intemperate. We could even term such talk as "management-baiting." And it stems, we believe, from a fear of technological unemployment of both men and, in the instance of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, unions.
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