Railway Organization and Management

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La Salle extension university, 1916 - 263 lappuses
 

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3. lappuse - Since a corporation is an artificial entity, it can act only through representatives. These are : (1) The majority of a quorum of corporate members duly assembled in corporate meeting; (2) a majority of directors duly assembled in directors' meeting; (3) officers of the corporation who are considered parts of the organization; (4) agents, who are not considered parts of the organization but who represent it as any agent does his principal; and (5) servants, who do not represent it but simply work...
77. lappuse - ... of supreme importance to the local agent, for discourteous treatment may lead a shipper to give his business to a competing line or to short-haul that of the man who has offended him. He must, however, be a versatile man. In addition to having the qualities which make for success in the management of a general merchandise store he must usually be a telegraph operator, a rough and ready lawyer, a first-aid surgeon, a substitute for a certified public accountant, a pretty good bank president, a...
230. lappuse - For each year of service i per cent of the average regular monthly pay for the ten years .next preceding retirement ; provided, however, that the annual pension disbursement of the company shall not exceed $200,000.
187. lappuse - To arbitrate all differences upon questions coming within the scope of this agreement which are not otherwise properly reconciled^ (c) Each member agrees that it will send to the chairman two copies of each local and joint state and interstate tariff of rates and of changes therein, also classification and rules at the time of making, issuing, or filing the same with the Interstate Commerce Commission; also of all agreements or arrangements with other common carriers in relation to the rates and...
3. lappuse - ... Wis. 404. (4) Metropolitan Elevated Ry. Co. v. Manhattan El. Ry. Co., 11 Daly (NY) 373. control the ordinary business affairs, such as the policy of management; the expediency of acting or contracting ; and the selection of inferior officers, fixing their compensation, directing their actions, etc. Within this scope of their authority, if they act in good faith, the stockholders cannot dictate to them nor control their acts in any particular ; the stockholders must wait until time for a new election...
77. lappuse - He must interpret and do his best to enforce a multitude of detailed and regulating authority as well as those which originate at the railroad headquarters. He must have a patience and good humor which will qualify him for a robe and a harp and a seat in heaven alongside of Job himself, and, with all this...
231. lappuse - Persons may be temporarily taken into the service, irrespective of age limit, for a period not exceeding six months, subject to extension, when necessary, to complete the work for which engaged.
66. lappuse - ... superintendent in the smaller organization; he represents the general manager in transportation matters in all cases, and in some instances the chief engineer and the superintendent of motive power in the maintenance of way and equipment. General Transportation Officials The following extract from a letter of Mr. EP Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, indicates the duties of some officers on that road: Superintendent of Transportation. — This officer reports directly...
230. lappuse - All officers and employees of the company, who are required by the organization to give their entire time to the service of the company, who shall have attained the age of seventy years; or who, being between the ages of sixty-five and sixty-nine years, inclusive, shall have been thirty or more years in the service of the company, and shall then be physically disqualified, shall be relieved and placed on the pension roll.

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