>From the Thursday, 30 October 1941 edition of the Altoona Tribune: The Fact Finding Board has met and heard both sides of the pro and con on the proposed thirty per cent increase in wages for Railway workers. The findings of this board will be given to the President of this United States, who will, if he accepts the report, make it public about November 1st. This is where the pressure of public opinion comes to bear on the subject. In many cases the public has been fooled about the actual wages of R. R. workers. The railroad workers himself is to blame for alot of this. He does not tell of the days he works for a hundred miles and spends from $1.50 to $2.00 for expenses. He loves to brag about the double or the triple that he has made. The public does not know that the engineer who says, " I made $16.98 yesterday," had to work the equivalent of two hundred miles which very often means working sixteen hours. The railroad workers and the employers never talk about the six-day-a-week jobs that pay a brakeman about $36.00 in actual money but out of which he has to pay his expenses away from home, which rings his wages below thirty dollars a week. Let's not brag about the big day we made once in awhile but tell of the smaller day as well so the public may be better informed as to our actual earnings. Clarence Thompson, engineer on the Omaha Railroad, is getting real handy at putting glass in windows. Seems they have a back porch that is enclosed with windows and sometimes they forget and leave a dog locked in there. Jack Kennedy, of old walkathon fame once said, "If you gotta go, you gotta go." This applies to dogs as well as others, so if you see Clarence going up the street with a window pane under his arm, you will know he forgot his dog again. ++++++++++++++++ Which reminds me, I have three dogs to go take care of! Have a good day everyone! Goin' to the dogs -- Nance