Abstract

Labor and Opposition to the Transportation Act

This article focuses on the recent issues of railroad administration and labor in context of the Transportation Act in the U.S. It is suggested that, Congress should have adopted labor's solution of the problem, the "Plumb plan." That plan rests on two basic propositions that the railroads should be purchased by the Government, and that they should be operated as a unified national system, by a tripartite board, representing labor, the managers, and the public. The forces now arrayed against the Plumb plan include all three of the major powers of the railroad world: the stockholders, the executives, and the shippers. There is nothing in a protraction of federal control to alter the opposition of these forces to the Plumb plan.