A BILL TO ESTABLISH A RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT 7 JULY 11, 15, AND 22, 1935 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interstate Commerce Supt. Doc. 9-21-35 CONTENTS Page Statement of— C. D. Cass, general counsel, American Transit Association, Washing- R. V. Fletcher, counsel, Association of American Railroads, Washing- John T. Corbett, national legislative representative of the Brother- 47 51,83 64 30, 69 95, 123 Hon. Kent E. Keller, M. C., Illinois_ 85 Edwin A. Krauthoff, counsel for the Railway Labor Executives' Hon. M. W. Latimer, Railroad Retirement Board, Washington, D. C_ 8, 57, 156 162 99, 141 Julius H. Parmelee, Director Bureau of Railway Economics, Associa- 100, 171 235 Robert E. Quirk, representing the Domestic Freight Forwarders' 150 W. W. Royster, president of the Railroad Employees Pension Associa- 28 Timothy Shea, assistant president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive $7 The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a. m. in room 412, Senate Office Building, Senator Fred H. Brown (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Brown, chairman of the subcommittee. Senator BROWN. The subcommittee will come to order. We have under consideration this morning S. 3151, a copy of which will be incorporated in the record at this point. (S. 3151 is here printed in full, as follows:) A BILL To establish a retirement system for employees of carriers subject to the Interstate Commerce Act Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DEFINITIONS SECTION 1. That as used in this Act (a) The term "carrier " includes any express company, sleeping-car company, freight-forwarding company, private car line, or carrier by railroad subject to the Interstate Commerce Act, and any company which may be directly or indirectly owned or controlled by or under common control with any such carrier by railroad and which operates any equipment or facilities or performs any service (other than trucking service), in connection with the transportation of passengers or property by railroad, or the receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, storage, or handling of property transported by railroad, and any receiver, trustee, or other individual or body, judicial, or otherwise, when in the possession of and operating the business of any such "carrier." 66 (b) the term "employee" means (1) each person who at or after enactment hereof is in the service of a carrier, or who at or after the enactment hereof is in the employment relation to a carrier, and (2) each officer or other official representative of an employee organization " (herein called "representative"), who before or after the effective date has performed service for a carrier, who is duly designated and authorized to represent employees under and in accordance with the Railway Labor Act, and who, during, or immediately following employment by a carrier, was or is engaged in such representative service in behalf of such employees. (c) A person shall be deemed to be in the service of a carrier whenever he may be subject to its continuing authority to supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service, for which service he receives compensation. (d) A person is in the employment relation to a carrier when furloughed or on leave of absence, and subject to call for service and ready and willing to serve, all in accordance with the established rules and practices usually in effect on railroads. 1 |