THE WEEK

At the annual dinner of White House correspondents, at which Mr. Eisenhower spoke, a guest of the Wall Street Journal’s Roscoe Born was none other than James Hoffa. Reasons for the grotesquerie were not given, but it is perfectly plain to us what goes on here, namely, the Spirit of Camp David!

Railroad union and management negotiators are currently battling each other in one of the most serious disputes of this century. Like the steel strike, it has a great deal to do with work rules and featherbedding. Industry charges that railroad featherbedding costs management a half billion dollars annually. On October 31 the three-year moratorium on rules-changes expired. The bargaining is bitter, and promises to get more so. On the one hand, industry, losing money, sees automation and increased efficiency as the only antidotes. On the other, a thousand railroad jobs have disappeared every week for the last ten years. The union wants to hold onto the jobs remaining, even if this means carrying superfluous firemen on diesels—and driving the railroads into bankruptcy.

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At the annual dinner of White House correspondents, at which Mr. Eisenhower spoke, a guest of the Wall Street Journal’s Roscoe Born was none other than James Hoffa. Reasons for the grotesquerie were not given, but it is perfectly plain to us what goes on here, namely, the Spirit of Camp David!

Railroad union and management negotiators are currently battling each other in one of the most serious disputes of this century. Like the steel strike, it has a great deal to do with work rules and featherbedding. Industry charges that railroad featherbedding costs management a half billion dollars annually. On October 31 the three-year moratorium on rules-changes expired. The bargaining is bitter, and promises to get more so. On the one hand, industry, losing money, sees automation and increased efficiency as the only antidotes. On the other, a thousand railroad jobs have disappeared every week for the last ten years. The union wants to hold onto the jobs remaining, even if this means carrying superfluous firemen on diesels—and driving the railroads into bankruptcy.