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![Extension of ICC power is urged by rail labor. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12. Railroad labor recommended today that regulatory power of the Interstate Commerce Commission be extended to domestic water and air transportation and that railroad freight and passenger rates be increased, contingent on earmarking of added revenue for equipment and labor expenditures. The recommendations were part of a five point program submitted to the unemployment committee of the Senate by A.F. Whitney, President of Railroad Trainmen, right, and [...]J. Pelley, President of the American Association of Railroads, left. In the center is Senator James F. Byrnes, Chairman of the Committee, 1/12/38](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTUvMTEvMjUvZXh0ZW5zaW9uLW9mLWljYy1wb3dlci1pcy11cmdlZC1ieS1yYWlsLWxhYm9yLXdhc2hpbmd0b24tZGMtamFuLTEyLXJhaWxyb2FkLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "Extension of ICC power is urged by rail labor. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12. Railroad labor recommended today that regulatory power of the Interstate Commerce Commission be extended to domestic water and air transportation and that railroad freight and passenger rates be increased, contingent on earmarking of added revenue for equipment and labor expenditures. The recommendations were part of a five point program submitted to the unemployment committee of the Senate by A.F. Whitney, President of Railroad Trainmen, right, and [...]J. Pelley, President of the American Association of Railroads, left. In the center is Senator James F. Byrnes, Chairman of the Committee, 1/12/38")
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Secretary of Agriculture and governor of Wyoming before house rivers and harbors comm. Washington, D.C., Nov. 30. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, (right) and Governor Leslie Miller, of Wyoming, meet just before they appeared before the House Rivers and Harbors Committee. Wallace proposed to the committee that the regional planning bill be amended to make the Planning Authority more advisory. Gov. Miller charged that the bill in its present form would wipe out state lines and destroy state sovereignties. 11/30/37
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Two men are shaking hands in a room.
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Date
1937
Contributors
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Location
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
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