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    The Railroad Labor Board (RLB) was an institution established in the United States of America by the Transportation Act of 1920. This nine-member panel...
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    United States. Launched on July 1, 1922 by seven of the sixteen extant railroad labor organizations, the strike continued into August before collapsing. A...
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  • The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries. The Act, enacted in 1926 and...
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  • Harry D. Wolf, The Railroad Labor Board. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1927. H.D. Wolf, "Criticisms of the Railroad Labor Board and an Evaluation...
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    direct pay for women workers. Hooper served as a member of the U.S. Railroad Labor Board (RLB) during the administration of President Warren G. Harding in...
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  • The 2022 United States railroad labor dispute was a labor dispute between freight railroads and workers in the United States. Rail companies and unions...
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    The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) is an independent agency in the executive branch of the United States government created in 1935 to administer...
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    restricted to short-line railroads. In 1920, the Esch–Cummins Act (formally called the Transportation Act) created a new Railroad Labor Board which regulated wages...
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  • to: Raiffeisenlandesbanken, co-operative banks in Austria Railroad Labor Board, arbitrated labor disputes in 1920s United States Rider Levett Bucknall, a...
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  • States, coinciding with a reduction in railroad shop wages by seven cents per day mandated by the Railroad Labor Board. Continues until September 1. August...
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    The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States that enforces U.S. labor law in relation...
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    The Bureau of Labor was also formed by Congress in 1884 after the national call for labor rights and the aftermath of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877...
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    Mediation Board (NMB) is an independent agency of the United States government that coordinates labor-management relations within the U.S. railroads and airlines...
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    Summer (1919) Wheat Price Guarantee Act (1919) Esch–Cummins Act 1920; Railroad Labor Board Federal Power Act 1920; Federal Power Commission Merchant Marine...
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    industrialist William C. Edenborn, a naturalized citizen from Germany, at his railroad business in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was accused of speaking "disloyally"...
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    as union president to join the new Railroad Labor Board. In 1921, he served as the American Federation of Labor's delegate to the British Trades Union...
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    Railroad classes are the system by which freight railroads are designated in the United States. Railroads are assigned to Class I, II or III according...
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    term as governor, he served on the United States Railroad Labor Board and the Railway Mediation Board but never again held elected office. He died of a...
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    Summer (1919) Wheat Price Guarantee Act (1919) Esch–Cummins Act 1920; Railroad Labor Board Federal Power Act 1920; Federal Power Commission Merchant Marine...
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  • Labor Board (NWLB) was an agency of the United States government established on April 8, 1918 to mediate labor disputes during World War I. The board...
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    Summer (1919) Wheat Price Guarantee Act (1919) Esch–Cummins Act 1920; Railroad Labor Board Federal Power Act 1920; Federal Power Commission Merchant Marine...
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    Austrian-American socialist congressman and newspaper editor Victor L. Berger; labor leader and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate Eugene V. Debs...
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    Alliance for Labor and Democracy Office of War Information Presidency of Woodrow Wilson United States Information Agency Writers' War Board World War I...
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    contract labor in all reformatories and prisons was abolished and an indeterminate sentence act passed. A law was introduced that compelled all railroad companies...
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    Railroad Strike of 1922, a nationwide railroad shop workers strike, began on July 1. The immediate cause of the strike was the Railroad Labor Board's...
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    Summer (1919) Wheat Price Guarantee Act (1919) Esch–Cummins Act 1920; Railroad Labor Board Federal Power Act 1920; Federal Power Commission Merchant Marine...
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    Robert H. Sayre, was vice president and chief engineer of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. His mother was President Wilson's daughter, Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre...
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    resisted conservative domination. Other federal organizations, like the Railroad Labor Board, also came under the sway of business interests. In 1921, Harding...
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  • Congress the merger of the Railroad Labor Board and the Interstate Commerce Commission to prevent further threats of railroad shutdowns. October 29 – Harding...
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  • precursor to the Railway Labor Act 1926 Railroad Transportation Act 1920, privatized the railroads and established the Railroad Labor Board In re Debs, 158 U...
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