Railroad and Street Transportation

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Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, 1916 - 76 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 5 - Trades" is one of the 25 sections of the report of the Education Survey of Cleveland conducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in 1915.
Σελίδα 75 - CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY REPORTS These reports can be secured from the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. They will be sent postpaid for 25 cents per volume with the exception of "Measuring the Work of the Public Schools" by Judd, "The Cleveland School Survey" by Ayres, and "Wage Earning and Education
Σελίδα 75 - Ayres. Boys and Girls in Commercial Work — Stevens. Department Store Occupations — O'Leary. Dressmaking and Millinery — Bryner. Railroad and Street Transportation — Fleming. The Building Trades— Shaw. The Garment Trades — Bryner. The Metal Trades— Lutz. The Printing Trades...
Σελίδα 11 - Cleveland forms a part, includes the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers. In 1910 this section had an estimated population of 37,600,000 persons, and contained onethird of the total railroad mileage of the United States.
Σελίδα 64 - ... life. The number applying is usually in excess of the positions available. Table 7 presents for 1915 the previous occupations of applicants for positions of motormen and conductors. It is to be noted that of the 589 applicants for employment, 89, or 15 per cent, had been farmers, 70, or 12 per cent, laborers. The range included such diverse occupations as sailors and teachers, jewelers and miners, carpenters and cooks. The common belief that street car work is a temporary job is not borne out...
Σελίδα 57 - ... small proportion of the teamsters in the city are of foreign birth. The influence of trade union organization has had a marked effect on both wages and hours of labor in recent years. Local branches of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen, and Helpers have been established in Cleveland among the truck drivers, van drivers and furniture handlers, taxi chauffeurs, beer-wagon drivers, ice-wagon drivers and helpers, pop and selzer drivers, sanitary drivers (garbage collectors),...
Σελίδα 66 - Cleveland system there are at present 2,500 motormen and conductors to one general superintendent; 416 to each division superintendent; 89 to every dispatcher, and 71 to each inspector. DISCIPLINE The division superintendent in administering discipline is supposed to take into consideration the nature of the offense, the length of service of the employee, and his previous record. For minor offenses, such as carelessness as to personal appearance, failure to report promptly for duty, to turn the sign...
Σελίδα 62 - ... requirements are less exacting than those demanded in railroad work. The preliminary training occupies about 10 days, during which the motorman is taught by actual car operation how to operate the controller, how to apply and release the brakes, and other duties connected with the careful running of the car through crowded streets. The conductor is taught the names of the streets, how and when to call them, where stops are to be made, when to turn lights on and off, how to act in case of accidents,...
Σελίδα 54 - ... day. In retail delivery and in some lines of express service the hours are somewhat irregular. To some degree this is inevitable, due to the nature of the business, but the unions have bettered conditions in this respect by requiring pay for overtime. In establishments which use a large number of motor vehicles repairmen or garage foremen see that the trucks are oiled, adjusted, and kept in good repair, and even when drivers are required to take care of their trucks the work takes only a short...
Σελίδα 68 - Company are members of the local association, 649978 which is a branch of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Employees of America. An agreement between the street car company and the union sets forth the conditions under which work shall be performed. It covers such subjects as wages, hours, discipline, free transportation to employees, seniority, eligibility of union officials for service, posting of schedules, lay-overs, drinking, pay for time when called for duty and not used,...

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