Many African Americans, fearful that the racism expressed by the American Railway Union would lock them out of another labor market, crossed the picket line to break the strike ; thus adding a racially charged tone to the conflict.

After his work with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and the American Railway Union, Debs ' next major work in organizing a labor union came during the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ).

The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railroad and airline industries.

Title III of the Esch – Cummins Act, which pertained to labor disputes, was repealed in 1926 by the Railway Labor Act.

The Uvalde and Northern Railway to Camp Wood, the Asphalt Beltway Railway in 1921, and the expansion of the asphalt mines in far southwestern Uvalde County at Blewett and Dabney were completed with the help of Mexican labor.

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The Board's jurisdiction is limited to private sector employers and the United States Postal Service ; other than Postal Service employees, it has no authority over labor relations disputes involving governmental, railroad and airline employees covered by the Adamson Railway Labor Act, or agricultural employees.

Many blacks, fearful that the racism expressed by the American Railway Union would lock them out of another labor market, crossed the picket line, which added a highly racial division to the union's predicament.

Coolies from India were imported, frequently under indenture, for such projects as the Uganda Railway, as farm labor, and as miners.

Although Chinese labor contributed to the building of the first Transcontinental Railroad in the United States and of the Canadian Pacific Railway in western Canada, Chinese settlement was discouraged after completion of the construction.

The ATU was founded as the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees in 1892 ; today, the ATU is the largest labor organization representing transit workers in the United States and Canada, with over 190, 000 members in 270 local unions spread across 46 states and nine provinces.

: During the early 20th century, the Empire of Japan used the forced labor of millions of civilians from conquered countries and prisoners of war, especially during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War, on projects such as the Death Railway.

Category: Railway labor unions

The American Railway Union ( ARU ), was the largest labor union of its time, and one of the first industrial unions in the United States.

Category: Railway labor unions

Category: Railway labor unions

During the Pullman Strike of the Pullman Palace Car Company in 1894, which spread to 20 companies in over half the states, Boyce called Eugene V. Debs, the socialist labor leader of the American Railway Union, a " great labor leader " and George Pullman, inventor of the sleeping car, the man " who caused all the trouble ".

* Railway labor and retirement

* Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, a United States labor union now formally known as the Transportation Communications International Union

Category: Railway labor unions

Originally recognized by the United States Supreme Court in a series of cases in the mid-1940s involving racial discrimination by railway workers ' unions covered by the Railway Labor Act, the duty of fair representation also applies to workers covered by the National Labor Relations Act and, depending on the terms of the statute, to public sector workers covered by state and local laws regulating labor relations.

* November 5-Eugene V. Debs, labor leader, founding member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, founder of the American Railway Union, arrested during the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois ( d. 1926 ).

In that position he introduced legislation on many topics, from Merchant Shipping and Companies to Railway regulation, but his main achievement was in stopping a proposed national strike of the railway unions by brokering an agreement between the unions and the railway companies.

After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union ( ARU ), the nation's first industrial union.

After stepping down as Brotherhood Grand Secretary in 1893, he organized one of the first industrial unions in the United States, the American Railway Union ( ARU ).

The Railway Labor Act ( 1926 ) required employers to bargain collectively with unions.

The LMRDA covers both workers and unions covered by the National Labor Relations Act (" Wagner Act ") and workers and unions in the railroad and airline industries, who are covered by the Railway Labor Act.

At the turn of the 19th to 20th century he notorious judgment of Taff Vale Railway Co v Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, made unions liable in economic tort for the costs of industrial action.

Key unions included the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers ( BLE ), the Order of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

There was substantial pressure on union members to leave their unions, and within a year, the membership of the National Railway Workers ' Union ( Kokuro ) fell from 200, 000 to 44, 000.

Kokuro and the National Railway Locomotive Engineers ' Union ( Zendoro ), both prominent Japanese railway unions, represented a number of the JNR workers.

Additional restrictions apply to unions covered by the Railway Labor Act ( RLA ) and unionized governmental employees.

Even stricter standards are applied to unions covered by the Railway Labor Act and to unions of governmental employees on constitutional grounds.

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On one occasion, the GWR's directors confronted Churchward, and demanded to know why the London and North Western Railway were able to build three 4-6-0 locomotives for the price of two of Churchward's " Stars ".

Agriculture in the Annapolis valley boomed in the late 19th century with the arrival of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, later the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which developed large export markets for Annapolis Valley apples.

Abakan ( together with Tayshet ) was a terminal of the major Abakan-Taishet Railway.

The railway came to Aberdour in 1890, with the building of the line east from the newly opened Forth Railway Bridge.

Alexandria is served by the Norfolk & Southern Railway with a connector which allows rail traffic to flow smoothly between lines servicing east – west and north – south destinations.

The Broadway Surface Railroad's Broadway Line, a cable car line, opened on lower Broadway ( below Times Square ) in 1893, and soon became the core of the Metropolitan Street Railway, with two cable branches: the Broadway and Lexington Avenue Line and Broadway and Columbus Avenue Line.

The first British railway to build coaches with bogies, instead of rigidly mounted axles, was the Midland Railway in 1874.

After decades of neglect and damage from wartime, Cambodia's rail network is currently being reconstructed as part of the Trans-Asian Railway project with modern trains replacing the current open-access system of " bamboo trains ", homemade bamboo mats powered by go-kart or water pump engines.

He said of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ): " Those who consumed human flesh, or dealt with the human liver trading from dissecting rooms ... were accounted as the political criminals ..." And of the building of Northern Railway Prisoners Camp (" SevZhelDorLag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, " An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp.

Several lines in China such as Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit, the Beijing – Tianjin Intercity Railway, and the Shanghai – Nanjing High-Speed Railway, serve a similar role with many more under construction or planned.

Tourism of the Cheddar gorge and caves began with the opening of the Cheddar Valley Railway in 1869.

The China Railway Seventh Group Co. Ltd will be in charge of the contract, under signed by the China Railway Engineering Corporation, with construction to be started from June 2008.

The Passenger Ferry, as its name suggests, carries only passengers, principally to connect with the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway at Kingswear station.

The town is also served by Dachau Stadt Railway Station which serves the local A line with the rural vicinity.

The Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway in Dire Dawa with Alfred Ilg ( taken sometime in 1902-1906 )

* In September 2009 Ethiopian Railways Corporation signed a deal with China Railway Engineering Corporation for it to build the new Addis Ababa light railway transit.

* FERISTSA Railway was proposed to connect Mexico with Panama via Guatemala using standard gauge rails

He worked with Joseph Locke on the Grand Junction Railway with one half of the line allocated to each man.

George Stephenson, with his work on the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, paved the way for the railway engineers who were to follow, such as his son Robert, his assistant Joseph Locke who went on to carry out much work on his own account and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

The construction of the Baghdad Railway, financed by German banks, was designed to eventually connect Germany with the Turkish Empire and the Persian Gulf, but it also collided with British and Russian geopolitical interests.