Railroad Revenues and Expenses: Hearings...S. Res. 23 |
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accounts American Railway Association assistant general freight attorney auditor average Baltimore & Ohio capital car service carriers cent CHAIRMAN charge chief engineer Class I railroads classes of expenditures-Continued coal committee compensation between Mar condition decrease in compensation depreciation director division superintendent DUNCAN earnings ended Dec equipment Erie Railroad Co expenditures fact fective Federal control freight agent freight cars Government guaranty period Hornell industry Interstate Commerce Commission investment July June 30 KRUTTSCHNITT LAUCK locomotives maintenance master mechanic matter McAdoo ment mileage months Mar net operating income number of employees officers operating expenses owners Pacific passenger agent Pennsylvania Railroad question rail Railroad Administration Railroad Labor Board railroad officials rates repairs revenues Salaries of railroad securities Senator LA FOLLETTE Senator POMERENE Sept solicitor standard statement terminal tion titles of employees transportation act United vice president wage WILLARD witness
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Page 2383 - employee " as used herein includes every person in the service of a carrier (subject to its continuing authority to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service ) who performs any work...
Page 2418 - And in order to ascertain that value, the original cost of construction, the amount expended in permanent improvements, the amount and market value of its bonds and stock, the present as compared with the original cost of construction, the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed by statute, and the sum required to meet operating expenses are all matters for consideration and are to be given such weight as may be just and right in each case. We do not say that there...
Page 2418 - And we concur with the court below in holding that the value of the property is to be determined as of the time when the inquiry is made regarding the rates. If the property, which legally enters into the consideration of the question of rates, has increased in value since it was acquired, the company is entitled to the benefit of such increase.
Page 2427 - Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment...
Page 2308 - Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing. The majority of any craft or class of employees shall have the right to determine who shall be the representative of the craft or class for the purposes of this act.
Page 2063 - UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The committee met at 10 o'clock am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 212, Senate Office Bu
Page 2440 - The Commission may in its discretion, prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records and memoranda to be kept by carriers subject to the provisions of this Act, including the accounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic as well as the receipts and expenditures of moneys.
Page 2046 - Army, one the public, and one labor; the last to be nominated by Samuel Gompers, member of the advisory commission of the Council of National Defense, and president of the American Federation of Labor.
Page 2419 - The property is held in private ownership and it is that property, and not the original cost of it, of which the owner may not be deprived without due process of law.
Page 2308 - ... 8. No employee should be disciplined without a fair hearing by a designated officer of the carrier. Suspension in proper cases pending a hearing, which shall be prompt, shall not be deemed a violation of this principle.