Title
RAILROAD BRAKEMEN
Proposition Summary
Initiative. Adds Section 6902.5, amends Section 6902, Labor Code. Empowers Public Utilities Commission to prescribe number of brakemen to be used on railroad trains. Prohibits feather-bed practices in employment of railroad brakemen on trains
Proposition Number
3
Year
1948
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Pass
Popular Vote Results
Y: 1767587; A: 50.9; N: 1703303; B: 49.1
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Initiative
Code Sections Affected
Added Cal. Lab. Code section 6902.5. Amended Cal. Lab. Code section 6902.
For Author
Alfred W. Robertson, Former chairman, Democratic State Central Committee, Santa Barbara; Ed Tickle, Former chairman, Republican State Central Committee, Carmel; Mrs. Leiland Atherton Irish, Los Angeles clubwoman; Thomas J. Riordan, Past State Commander, American Legion, San Francisco; William M. Jeffers, Former president, Union Pacific Railroad, Los Angeles; R. V. Garrod, President, California Farmers, Inc., Saratoga; Joseph J. Deuel, Director, California Farm Bureau Federation, Berkeley
Against Author
F. G. Pellett, State Representative, Trainmen's Brotherhood
Recommended Citation
RAILROAD BRAKEMEN California Proposition 3 (1948).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/473