Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1926-08-19
new RAILWAY LABOR ACT

The Leader is presenting with this
issue, the first installment of the new
Railway Labor Act, as indicated in
last weeks issue. The Leader in view
of the fact that the receivership of
the A., B. & A. will soon be termi-
mated, and the road be again operated
independe mt court action and thus
become agaNpa No. road, in that
event the present employees will nat,
urally look for standard pay, such as
similar employees of other Georgia
roads are now receiving. Being with
out organization, such as mostly
maintains on other roads, and of nee,
essity without the required formation
.as contemplated under the Railroad
Labor Act, it is thought timely to
give the railway employees a com.
plete survey of the Act, under which
they will operate, as soon as the re-
ceivership is discontinued.
BY reading the several sections OF
this act, the interested parties will
learn that they should organize each
craft and carefully select spokes'
man or spokesmen, who can intelli'
gently and fairly present their cause
to first the management of the new
organization, or in the event that NO
satisfactory adjustment may be had
through them, to such board of ad'
justment, as this act authorizes.
An Act to provide for the prompt
disposition of disputes between car
riers and their employees, and foI
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in
Congress assembled,
Definitions
Section 1. When used in this Act
and for the purposes of this Act:
First. The term carrier" includes
any express company, sleeping-ca1
company, and any carrier by railroad
subject to the Interstate Commerce
Act, including all floating equipment
such as boats, barges, tugs, bridges
and ferries; and other transportation
facilities used by or operated in con-
nection with any such carrier by rail-
road, and any receiver or any other
individual or body, judicial or other
wise, when in the possession of the
business of employers or carriers COW
cred by this Act: Provided, how
ever, That the term carrier shall not
include any street, interurban, OF
suburban electric railway unless such
a railway is operating as a part of
general steam railroad system OF
transportation, but shall not exclude
any part of the general steam rail-
road system of transportation now or
hereafter operated by any other mo-
tive power;
Second. The term adjustment
Board" means one of the boards OF
adjustment provided for in this Act;
Third. The term BOARD of Media
tion" means the Board of Mediation
created by this Act;
Fourth. The term Commerce
means commerce among the several
States or between any State, Terri
tory, or the District of Columbia and
any foreign nation, or between any
Territory OF the District of Columbia
and any State, or between any Terri
tory and any other Territory, or be-
tween any Territory and the District
of Columbia, or within any Territory
or the District of Columbia, or be-
tween points in the same State but
through any other State or any Ter
ritory or the District of Columbia or
any foreign nation.
Fifth. The term "employee" as
used herein includes every person in
the service of carrier (subject to its
continuing authority to supervise and
direct the manner of rendition of his
service) who performs any work de-
fined as that of an employee or sub
ordinate official in the orders of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
now in effect, and as the same may
be amended or interpreted by orders
hereafter entered by the commission
pursuant to the authority which is
hereby conferred upon it to enter or
ders amending or interpreting such
existing orders: Provided, however,
That no occupational classification
made by order of the Interstate Com
merce Commission shall be construed
to define the crafts according to
which railway employees may be or
ganized by their voluntary action, nor
shall the jurisdiction or powers of
such employee organizations be re-
garded as in any way limited or de-
fined by the provisions of this Act or
by the orders of the commission.
Sixth. The term "district court
includes the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia; and the term
Circuit court of appeals" includes
the Court of Appeals of the District
of Columbia.
This Act may be cited as the Rail
way Labor Act.