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Show Start Next Year's Beets-NOW! Farmers have learned that it pays to prepare their land in the fall for spring planting. This is done by irrigating in late summer or early fall, plowing under of stubble and weeds, applying fertilizer and doing other tasks that should not be put off until the busy spring Yields are better and time is saved Fall-plowing leaves the soil in a better condition for mellowing through winter weather action. Then when spring comes moisture conditions are better because the soil need not be opened. Mere harrowing prepares the seed bed for a good uniform stand of beets. Sugar beets are a good dependable cash crop. Plan now for a big acreage in 1952. , . i ii i mi ii h.iiiiyfti i ! ii t 90 For! 10 Against ffirr.Q Railroad workers are represented by 23 standard L L Li Li J) unions. By mutual agreement, 20 of these unions com- I prising about 1 ,200,000 men, or more than 90q are Jf um working under wages and rules agreed to by them and M Hi the railroads. But leaders of three unions with only lit'' about 130,000 men, or less than 10 still refuse, after f Lai v more than a year of negotiations, to accept similar 11 fl J"1 wage and rules agreements. These are even more II f"7 n 0 favorable than the terms recommended by the Emer- Jf jj J j j I j j J gency Board appointed by the President. Jf KJ Li Li Li vs OOO Yes, it certainly seems to be finally about time that the leaders of the three unions stop their delaying tactics their quibbling. But the leaders off the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Order of Railway Conductors continue to refuse. They continue a course of diilying and dallying. It is definitely time to wm foinnnRnnn nmr n r iu II N T i pn ll I ii 0 I it liTJj On June 15, 1950, an Emergency Board principles of the Memorandum Agreement rules changes, which have already been appointed by the President under the of December 21. They have been working ' agreed to by the Brotherhood of Railroad terms of the Railway Labor Act an Act under this agreement since May 25. Trainmen. Of these, the principal one largely fathered by the unions themselves What Ahnnt Watrpa? seems to be that having to do with so- made its recommendations on certain nuai luuui nagea. called "inter divisional service" runs wage and working conditions ("rules" in Under the terms of the agreement, yard which take in two or more seniority dis- railroad language) which had been in dis- engineers, firemen and conductors would tricts. pute between employes and the railroads. no" be receiving a wage increase of $.34 The unjon leaders would bar progress More Than 90T of Emnloves Accent f1 ($7 aa) and IO& eReers' and efficiency in the industry, and better . iviore man y0 oi employes Accept firemen and conductors would now be re- service to the public by mahitaining a Since then, terms equal to or better than ceiving an increase of QlA cents an hour situation where they 'can arbitrarily stop the Board recommendations have been ($1.56 per day). Large sums of retroactive a railroad from establishing such inter-accepted inter-accepted by about 1,200,000 railroad em- pay have already accrued and if the agree- divisional runs The carriers propose that ployes-more than 90 of the total of all ment is carried out, will be paid promptly. jf a railed wishes to set up an intsc- y What About "Cost of Living" Increases? divisional run, the railroad anf the unions the 23 standard railroad unions. an should try to agree on such run and the Less Than 10 Refuse "escalator" clause under which wages will coditions which should surround its But three unions with about 130,000 be geared to changes in the Government's tabhsbment, and if the railroad and the men, or less than 10 of the total-have cost-of-living index. Two such increases n't agree, the matter will be sub-refused sub-refused to accept, even after months of -April and July, 1951 -have already been mitted to arbitration - negotiations. These three unions tare the paid to the 90 of railroad employes cov- ut tne tnree umon leaders still refuse. erewr;TK :rr w , Rules Can Be Arbitrated and Enginemen, and the Order of Railway Wnat About the 40-Hour Week ? The railroads have not only offered these Conductors. These are three of the so- The White House Agreement calls for the three unions the same rules agreed to by called "operating" unions. Already the establishment of the 40-hour week inprin- the BRT and covered by the White House highest paid men in the industry, their ciple, for employes in yard service. The Agreement, but have even agreed to sub-leaders sub-leaders demand still further advantages employes can have it any time after Jan- mit such rules to arbitration, over other workers. uary 1, 1952, provided the manpower sit- T , T . , In all, there are about 270,000 operating uation is such that the railroads can get lne Industry Fattern Is Fixed employes. But not all of them, by any enough men to perform the work with With the pattern so firmly established in means, are represented by BLE, BLF&E, reasonable regularity at straight time the railroad industry, it seems fair to sug-or sug-or ORC. As a matter of fact, less than rates. If the parties do not agree on the gest that the leaders of BLE, BLF&E, half 132,000 to be exact are in these question of availability of manpower, the and ORC stop their quibbling and take three unions. More than half about White House Agreement provides arbitra- action to make the railroad labor picture 140,000 are in other unions, principally tionbyarefereeappointedbythePresident. 100 complete. Certainly today's eco-the eco-the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. WW Plao Tin the TTnim nomic and international situation calls for What makes the whole situation so hard Tr j ,se lne ,lon a united front. And certainly no good rea-to rea-to understand is that these 140,000 op- . eaaers wemana . jg advanced why these three erating employes are working under wages The continued quibbling of the leaders of unions should be preferred over all other and rules which the leaders of the other the three unions has to do principally with railroad employes. 130,000 say they cannot agree to. What Do the Railroads Offer? f"" - . They offer these three unions the same - settlement which was contained in a Mem- E -7 tT-x " orandum of Agreement signed at the White Ij "ffTWfWy i"N'U",&''; " . House on December 21, 1950, by four kj v 'IfWsUiffilXI Jr i 1 I 1 VwsN?': brotherhoods and the railroads. Later i s,4s.w.4iSSi !iJLJLsOI I i 4 1 jLri j these brotherhoods sought to repudiate " s I this agreement. But on May 25, 1951, the . Yh " ' . ......:..:..t ! 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