2 A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE PROMPT DISPOSITION Part 1 JANUARY 14, 15, AND 16, 1926 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate Commerce RAILWAY LABOR ACT THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, D. C. The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., pursuant to call of the chairman, in room 224, Senate Office Building, Senator James E. Watson presiding. Present: Senators Watson (chairman), Gooding, Fess, Howell, Pine, Smith, Pittman, Bruce, and Dill. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. Because of conflicts in committee hearings Senators will be dropping in to this committee from time to time. They had to go to other committees first to constitute a quorum, and will come in here from time to time. The bill that the committee is meeting to hear especially to-day is Senate bill 2306. (Senate bill 2306 is here printed in full, as follows:) [S. 2306, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session] A BILL To provide for the prompt disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees, and for 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-car company, and any carrier by railroad, subject the to interstate commerce act, except a street, interurban, or suburban electric railway not operating as a part of a general railroad system of transportation, including all floating equipment such as boats, barges, tugs, bridges, and ferries, and other transportation facilities used by or operated in connection with any such carrier by railroad, and any receiver or any other individual or body, judicial or otherwise, when in the possession of the business of employers or carriers covered by this act; Second. The term "adjustment board" means one of the boards of adjustment provided for in this act; Third. The term "board of mediation" means the board of mediation created by this act; Fourth. The term "commerce" means commerce among the several States or between any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia and any foreign nation, or between any Territory or the District of Columbia and any State, or between any Territory and any other Territory, or between any Territory and the District of Columbia, or within any Territory or the District of Columbia, or between points in the same State but through any other State or any Territory or the District of Columbia or any foreign nation. Fifth. The term "employee" as used herein includes every person in the service of a carrier (subject to its continuing authority to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service) who performs any work defined as that of an employee or subordinate official in the orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission now 1 |