November, 1949 - Milwaukee Road Archive

More documents

Recommendations

Info

The London-Dover daily "Golden Arrow," fast continental train of the South· ern Region of British Railways in London-Paris service, leaving Victoria Station, London. This is one of the many fine trains introduced in Britain under private enterprise but now turned over to the State. Covernment ownership isn't paying off in England The following article is reprinted from the October issue of Railway Employees Journal, the official publication of the Benefit Association of Railway Employees. OVERNMENT ownership of English railroads isn't paying off, G either for railway workers, shippers or taxpayers. Passenger fares and freight rates both are up about 55 per cent. In Eng': land, the per ton-mile freight rate now is about three times that in the United States, and the basic one way passenger fare is five cents a mile, third class. On top of that, the nationalized English system failed by something over 20 'million dollars to take in enough last year to cover its outgo. That means the public treasury must dip into the pockets of the taxpayers to cover the deficit, so that British taxpayers will feel that extra bite just as passengers and shippers are feeling the bite of increased rates and fares. The old myth that railway workers would exercise a larger degree of "worker control" over the roads under government ownership also has been exploded. John Bensted, former head of the British National Union of Railwaymen, was named as one of the four full time members of the Transport Commission set up to rule the nationalized railroads. Yet when the· workers' request for a wage advance of $2 a week was turned down, he warned his former union constituents against believing that the British public is "a milch cow from which higher and higher rates can be extracted." Other former union leaders, as they have been absorbed into management of the nationalized lines, have made similar shifts in their attitudes, with the result that spokesmen for the workers' organizations are currently calling the socialized system "bureaucracy run riot." The workers have discovered that the government is no longer, for political reasons, on the side of worker requests with respect to either wages or working conditions. It isn't even neutral. Instead, government is on the side of the commission it has set up to run the railroads, Britishers generally
B REE? iriSpip.ESiJ, CP.Ar..JBERRY JAJviBOREE If\! {c2tion pyer heldlJt tha: 2n'o. ...'\lthough The C\"8l'; ;~. ':'22 die\. not ,'3'et under ',;;Je.> \--:ffj~:.::.~l-h '_;1i.ti-l Sc;.t .. urdav J:nor:(~i1""_'~ -·:~i:-:~·c:..r"'·JS,, ·~n1 1~le :ies on tb.i':.' !) r:~(' ~'6~_'1· the \)Visccns;n .:.:,,{,~1.:')j.6,~ Cranberry 2:; ~'12TlF,', Kols~ =\'lilv'laul\:ef~' Bc::;c_'::: r\':~: ~,n6.s I--li(-~- tad~ a gr01.l) ~-, ':::::.~ '... j.~~ltorn~~ed high schoG~ gT::ls -)(::::-,::.'c~:~6 -::-h2 train ":,rrying tn.;'" r - cl'8.nbel'ry juice for th-~ ~·e~:~-~·;hn-:er-J: cd the nas sengers. l:Jriy-"~ :2S'~- 1\11::--;.1.' .J'e .::::' tODk o\~er tb.e head f:l.::d 8.:(~c~. ",'~J:h',.Jut resort~ ing to gur:-.:;::,12
Page 2 and 3: & ~•• - .....~~•• - i , _.
Page 4 and 5: .1 , 1 II 1 -------~ • ~~~ - -.;-
Page 8 and 9: Draver Elected Vice President In Ch
Page 10 and 11: Howare we da ~ C~Jf H1 " @ SEPTEMBE
Page 12 and 13: preJentinf} NICK KONTOS Winner of H
Page 14 and 15: PHONERS' BONERS There was a young s
Page 16 and 17: !. How Well Do You Know Your Railro
Page 18 and 19: Furniture is always welcomed by any
Page 20 and 21: Cift Wrappings With Clitter After t
Page 22 and 23: all 3re either back at work or on t
Page 24 and 25: I : ~ II I' I i'! i; q 'j I' li Ii
Page 26 and 27: T.lubhe~ Heels .and Soles Truck Sid
Page 28 and 29: LUMBER PILING-TIES and MINE TIMBERS
Page 30 and 31: PR~e§e1j.t Day SAFETY Requirements
Page 32 and 33: 32 If you're not protected by our A
Page 34 and 35: .~~ur B~" n~l·n@~~ ""!j.c.~ ~_ U'l
Page 36 and 37: TauaH Newboys • Patented construc
Page 38 and 39: \\-e regret tu ::.'tpurt 111p death
Page 40 and 41: Congratulations to John F. Altenhem
Page 42 and 43: ~ . Fellow Employes Fete Irma Brunn
Page 44: I Anew note in Music Education Musi

November, 1949 - Milwaukee Road Archive

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?