Study of the Telegraph Industry: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-seventh Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 95--76th Congress (extended by S. Res. 268--76th Congress) a Resolution Directing a Study of the Telegraph Industry in the United States ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1941 - 530 páginas |
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air mail America Cables American Communications Association Annual reports ATTAINED AGE GROUPS Average Bell System cable carriers Cables & Radio Chairman circuits Commercial Cable committee competition consolidation domestic telegraph earnings employment excluding messengers facilities Federal Communications Commission Female Total Male foreign Globe Wireless Government GROUPS TO NUMBER international telegraph land lines land-line legislation Linemen Mackay Radio merger messages monopoly national defense number of employees number of messengers office clerks Old-Age and Survivors Operating expenses Percent Percent ployees Percent Postal Telegraph Postal Telegraph-Cable Co present problem public interest Radio & Telegraph radiotelegraph radiotelephone railroad rates Ratio to total Resolution 95 Senator BROOKS Senator MCFARLAND Senator WHEELER Senator WHITE TABLE taxable wages tele telegraph business telegraph carriers telegraph companies telegraph industry telegraph service teletypewriter testimony tion Total Male Female total number traffic turn-over Union and Postal United weekly hours Western Union Western Union Telegraph wire workers
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Página 1 - Congress, to employ such experts, and clerical, stenographic, and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production and impounding of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, and to take such testimony and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $10,000,...
Página 138 - For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges . . '.
Página 1 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings, to sit and act at such...
Página 131 - Commission hereby created shall have authority to inquire into the management of the business of all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted...
Página 446 - Commission shall be requested to appoint the third appraiser. A decision of a majority of the appraisers shall be required and said decision shall be final and conclusive. The salary and expenses of the third or neutral appraiser, including the expenses of the appraisal board, shall be borne equally by the parties to the proceedings. All other expenses shall be paid by the party incurring them, including the salary of the appraiser selected by such party.
Página 444 - ... the date he is first deprived of employment as a result of the coordination and extending in each instance for a length of time determined and limited by the following schedule...
Página 442 - coordination" as used herein means joint action by two or more carriers whereby they unify, consolidate, merge, or pool in whole or in part their separate railroad facilities or any of the operations or services previously performed by them through such separate facilities.
Página 136 - The number of employees in the service of a carrier shall not be reduced by reason of any action taken pursuant to the authority of this title below the number as shown by the pay rolls of employees in service during the month of May, 1933...
Página 446 - ... and elects to move his place of residence back to his original point of employment, the carrier shall assume the expense of moving his household and other personal effects under the conditions imposed in paragraph (a) of this section.
Página 446 - Changes in place of residence subsequent to the initial change caused by coordination and which grow out of the normal exercise of seniority in accordance with working agreements are not comprehended within the provisions of this section.