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The Locomotive Engineers' Arbitration: Its Antecedents and its Outcome

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History and Organization of the various Railroad Brotherhoods, 264. — Their policies: removal of inequalities, seniority, attitude toward closed shop, 267. — Methods of payment and wage schedules for the engineers, 272. — Concerted movements by various brotherhoods before 1910, 273. — The successful strategy of the conductors and trainmen in 1910, 275. — The engineers' demands of 1910, adjusted by mediation, 279. — New demands for the eastern territory in 1912; final reference to the Board of Arbitration, 280. — Arguments of engineers, 284; of the railroads, 286. — The award, 288.— Some general questions: pay on weak roads, increase of freight rates, fairness of general rate of wages, 290. — The concluding recommendation of compulsory arbitration, 292.

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  • William J. Cunningham, 1913. "The Locomotive Engineers' Arbitration: Its Antecedents and its Outcome," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 27(2), pages 263-294.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:27:y:1913:i:2:p:263-294.
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