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

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