. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s forarranging a settlement of the strikeand in consequence the leading labororganizations have issued an appeal tothe strikers to resume work. The decision of the Railway L^nionrepresentatives came after a protractedconference attended by Andreas Her-mes, Minister of Food and -Acting Min-ister of Finance, and officials of theGeneral Federation of Labor LTnionsand of independent organizations. Atthis conference the Government gavethe striking railroad men and the pleading for


. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . s forarranging a settlement of the strikeand in consequence the leading labororganizations have issued an appeal tothe strikers to resume work. The decision of the Railway L^nionrepresentatives came after a protractedconference attended by Andreas Her-mes, Minister of Food and -Acting Min-ister of Finance, and officials of theGeneral Federation of Labor LTnionsand of independent organizations. Atthis conference the Government gavethe striking railroad men and the pleading for them assur-ance that the disputed wage scheduleand the reclassification of workerswould be adjudicated immediately; thestrike began on February 1. Fel>rtiary, 1922 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 49 Pneumatic Holder-On, Tire Heater, and CountersinkRatchet for Patch Bolts A compact piiciiniatic liolder-on has bociidesigned at the Meadville shops that isciuickly adjusted to the work and can heas quickly withdrawn. The base A is a cup made of machineryiteel with an inside thread cut to 8 to the. DETAILS OF THE PNEUMATICHOLDERON. inch. The shell is pierced with six holes,a, each 9/16 in. in diameter and laid outon a spiral curve with the distance betweentlie centers of adjacent holes, .146 in. asmeasured along the axis of the cylinder,the reason for which will be presently ex-plained. The cylinder B screws into the shell orbase A, it is made of machinery steel andis bored out to a diameter of 3% in. totake the plunger C. At one side at thebottom it is bored out and tapped with aVa-in. hole b, that is threaded 14 to theinch to take the air hose. It is screwedinto the base A until the hole b comes fairwith one of the holes a. It will be seen,upon e-xamination that these holes permitof an adjustment through a range of Is thread has a pitch of .125 in. Thenif the cylinder is given 1 1/6 turns it willmove .146 in. along the axis of the shell,which is the same as the range o


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