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PRESS RELEASE Contact: Susan "I Used to Be on Washington's Channel 7" King Assistant Secretary of Labor for Public Affairs (But If You Have a Local TV Anchor Job in a Top Ten Market, She'd Be Very...
...It is evident," Secretary Herman said, "that the C&O was engaged in a heartless downsizing of the labor force through introduction of steam-driven steel...
...An inquiry by a department task force into the facts at the Big Bend Tunnel has established that Mr...
...Secretary Herman contended that Labor Department regulations and guidelines were violated in 1870 in the contest between a steam drill and Mr...
...His death was "almost surely a result of over-exertion on the job due to supervisory neglect or malfeasance," Secretary Herman said...
...Henry is neither historically vindictive nor politically motivated...
...But the fact that Mr...
...Henry and his colleagues were primarily African-Americans has been ignored for too long...
...Her task force is also looking into the tragic 1928 accident on Virginia's White Oak Mountain and the death of the engineer, Casey Jones, who is reported to have been "found in the cab with his hand on the throttle, scalded to death by the steam...
...They expect to refer the Casey Jones case to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
...Henry was coerced into the challenge with the then-high-tech device...
...Based on contemporary evidence, there can be no doubt that Mr...
...According to one deposition, "Cap'n says to John Henry, / 'Gonna bring me a steam drill 'round, / Gonna take dat steam drill out on de job, / Gonna whop dat steel on down, / Lawd, Lawd, gonna whop dat steel on down.'" Secretary Herman said that the complaint on behalf of the late Mr...
...It is," she said, "intended to assure proactive hindsight, if you will, and to make history congruent with current standards...
...Henry was targeted in the C&O's importation of the steam drill...
...The fact that John Henry won the contest is not germane...
...PRESS RELEASE Contact: Susan "I Used to Be on Washington's Channel 7" King Assistant Secretary of Labor for Public Affairs (But If You Have a Local TV Anchor Job in a Top Ten Market, She'd Be Very Interested) Secretary Herman to Act in John Henry Case In what newly sworn Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman called "an act of historical reparation," a complaint is being filed by the department against the C&O Railroad's successor corporation, the Chessie System, on behalf of John Henry, "a steel driving man...
...Henry on the day before he died...
Vol. 2 • May 1997 • No. 34
