. Electric railway journal . e-tween employer and employee has beenput on a new basis. Corollary to theseresults have come the complete settle-ment of the hiring and firing problem,the elimination of the strike and lock-out; while the raisons detre of unionshave been effaced. In a larger sense, this form of de-mocracy does not stop as an industrialunion, but, as an Americanizing force,automatically takes care of the emi-grant question and instills into theminds of the bosses, as well as the work-ers, a practical knowledge and true re-gard for genuine American customs andprinciples. Mr. Eagan M
. Electric railway journal . e-tween employer and employee has beenput on a new basis. Corollary to theseresults have come the complete settle-ment of the hiring and firing problem,the elimination of the strike and lock-out; while the raisons detre of unionshave been effaced. In a larger sense, this form of de-mocracy does not stop as an industrialunion, but, as an Americanizing force,automatically takes care of the emi-grant question and instills into theminds of the bosses, as well as the work-ers, a practical knowledge and true re-gard for genuine American customs andprinciples. Mr. Eagan Made Superin-tendent Takes Over Operation of BrooklynRapid Transit Line FormerlyUnder Mr. Dempsey J. F. Eagan has been appointed su-perintendent of transportation of theNew York Consolidated Railroad, whichoperates the rapid transit lines of theBrooklyn Rapid Transit System. will have charge of transporta-tion, devoting his time to that workexclusively, and taking over part of theduties of J. J. Dempsey, who resigned. J. F. EAGAN recently as vice-president in generalcharge of operation of all the lines inthe Brooklyn Rapid Transit system. Mr. Eagan joined the Brooklyn RapidTransit organization as a guard on , 1904, and during his fifteen yearsof service with the company has risenthrough every grade in the tiansporta-tion department of the elevated andsubway lines to the head of the de-partment. He was made an inspectorin June, 1904; an assistant trainmasterin May, 1907; a trainmaster on Sept. 1,1913; division superintendent on , 1916, and superintendent of trans-portation on Sept. 1, 1919. Mr. Eagan was division superintend-ent on the southern division of the sys-tem before taking charge of the east-ern division, and so has a thoroughknowledge of all branches of the rapidtransit lines of which he is to be chieftransportation official. Before joining the Brooklyn RapidTransit Company Mr. Eagan securedhis groundwork in railroading with theNew York, New Haven &
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