Hours of Service of Railroad Employees: Hearing Before Subcommittee...on H.R. 17893, Feb. 2, 1915

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الصفحة 7 - An act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in Interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes," approved March 2d, 1893, and amended April 1st, 1896.
الصفحة 33 - Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply in any case of casualty or unavoidable accident or the act of God; nor where the delay was the result of a cause not known to the carrier or its officer or agent in charge of such employee at the time said employee left a terminal, and which could not have been foreseen: Provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the crews of wrecking or relief trains.
الصفحة 11 - Mudge calls attention to the fact that the operating revenues for the year ending June 30, 1914, as compared with the year ending June 30, 1913...
الصفحة 40 - Sheppard, president, Order of Railroad Conductors; WG Lee, President, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; WS Stone, grand chief engineer, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; WS Carter, president, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Trainmen.
الصفحة 8 - ... project in view of the failure of Cuba to honor its own pledges to the Special Fund, and in view of its arrearages, and for other considerations as well. Now, what I would like to get at is what efforts our own delegates at the United Nations made to avoid this decision. However, before we get into that, I should like to say for the benefit of the committee that it had been my intention to publish — because I think that the American people should have all of the information that we are able...
الصفحة 4 - ... MOSES E. CLAPP, Minnesota. ATLEE POMERENE, Ohio. ALBERT B. CUMMINS, Iowa. HENRY L. MYERS, Montana. FRANK B. BRANDEGEE, Connecticut. JOE T. ROBINSON, Arkansas. GEORGE T. OLIVER, Pennsylvania. WILLARD SAULSBURY, Delaware. HENRY F. LIPPITT, Rhode Island. WILLIAM H. THOMPSON, Kansas. CHARLES E, TOWNSEND, Michigan. JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, Illinois. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, Wisconsin. THOMAS P.
الصفحة 11 - STATISTICS. The following compilations of statistics are from the returns of the several street railway companies to the Commission for the year ending June 30, 1914. The following table gives the length of railway line and track and total reckoned as single track returned by the Companies for the year ending June 30, 1914, as compared with the previous year: — Street Railway Mileage Oioned, 1913 and 1914.
الصفحة 17 - For that reason we feel — and we are not trying to escape the penalty — that the penalty should be left to the discretion of the court, in accordance with the amount of negligence.

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