. Review of reviews and world's work. , whosewages are now a mat-ter of Federal stat-ute. These men arewell organized in thefour brotherhoods oflocomotive engineers,locomotive firemen,conductors, and train-m c xi. In formertimes each brother-hood made its de-mands l)y itself, and usually it dealt witha single railroad company at a time, or elsewith the roads of a single division of theCfjuntry. Hut in making their latest de-mands the four brotherhoods acted togetheras a unit, and faced all of the railroads ofthe cr)untry at the same time, which werealso obliged in turn to act concertedly. itis
. Review of reviews and world's work. , whosewages are now a mat-ter of Federal stat-ute. These men arewell organized in thefour brotherhoods oflocomotive engineers,locomotive firemen,conductors, and train-m c xi. In formertimes each brother-hood made its de-mands l)y itself, and usually it dealt witha single railroad company at a time, or elsewith the roads of a single division of theCfjuntry. Hut in making their latest de-mands the four brotherhoods acted togetheras a unit, and faced all of the railroads ofthe cr)untry at the same time, which werealso obliged in turn to act concertedly. itis to be said further in explanation that allof these brotherhoods had within a compara-tively recent period been accorded the op-portunity t<» have all of their demand*; re-garding wages, hours, and conditions of laborsubmitted to impartial arbitration. hithese highly rcsprctrtl railroad services, theprinciple of unionism has not been atntnkr. Organization of labor has been fullyrecogni/.e«l. 362 THE . REVIEW OF REJIEIVS. ^ MolTi-ll ^;udiu
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