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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1949
Page
3
February reports show a presidential fact-finding board asked to retry a ten month rail labor conflict involving carriers and unions and one million non-operating employees. Negotiators court settlement after three weeks of talks based on an earlier element. The board’s new effort aims to avert a strike that could halt transportation and pressure unions' demands.
The National Railway Labor Act steps were completed with direct bargaining mediation and fact finding. Workers eligible to strike Jan 17 extended the no strike period while the Presidential fact finding board reviews the appeal and interprets the panel’s recommendations led by Dr William A Leiserson to aid settlement.
In a report to the President on December 17, 1948, unions urge a seven cent hourly pay increase retroactive to October 1, 1948 and a 40 hour work week starting September 1949 with no pay loss. George E. Leighty calls the board’s proposal a useful base for further talks as bargaining ends with a brief session at Union Station. The unions originally sought 25 cents an hour and time and a half for Saturdays plus double time on Sundays and holidays. The current average pay for non-operating railroad workers is about 1,176.356? 45 for 49 hours a week. Georgetown, once a suburb of Washington, is noted as older than the capital and named for Brusin’s George II.
Annapolis February 2 The state bought a 379 acre Chesapeake Bay tract at Sandy Point for a future public beach and park. A $160000 treasury check was exchanged at a short Comptroller’s office ceremony with Mr and Mrs William H Labrot. Deeds will be filed in Circuit Court tomorrow. Topographic survey will delay development.
Two B-29 or similar Air Force bombers collided in the air over Shreveport Louisiana on February 2 killing two crewmen and injuring five others. First Lieut John W Hassard of Barksdale Field public relations said one plane exploded and disintegrated while the other crashed into a field and buried in mud. some crew parachuted to safety.
The News reports repairs including bathhouses and driveways and notes an explosion and crash during practice near Shreveport. Two planes collided about 4 000 feet up in simulated instrument flight. one from the instrument school and the other from the advanced pilot school. Names of the dead and injured were not immediately known.
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