L-41-438
MEMORANDUM
Washington, D. C. September 10, 1941
TO Mr. | Director, Retirement Claims
FROM General Counsel
SUBJECT Joint Live Stock Office (Kansas City Terminal)
S.S.A. No. ______Service claimed as bill clerk at Kansas City, Missouri, from December 1919 to April 1920 (Submitted June 3, 1941, as "Kansas City Terminal Joint Live Stock Office")
1. Organized June 1, 1918
2. Total Number of (1) The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Members Railway Company
(2) Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
(3) Chicago Great Western Railroad Company
(4) Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company
(5) The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
(6) Kansas City Southern Railway Company
(7) Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
(8) Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company
(9) Union Pacific Railroad Company
(10) Quincy, Ctnaha & Kansas City Railroad Company Memo to Mr. | Director of Retirement Claim?
(11) St. Louis - San Francisco Railway Company
(12) Wabash Railway Company
(all "carrier employers")
3. Duties. Functions Clerical work pertaining to the handling of and Activities livestock by rail in and out of Kansas City yards, formerly performed by the individual carriers.
4. Controlled It is stated that the office functioned "as a consolidation of local livestock require ments for the exclusive benefit to the trunk line railroads"; that its expenses were as sumed by the twelve trunk line railroads, and that its personnel was "composed mostly of former livestock agents of the roads in volved, " from which it appears that the office was controlled by "carrier employers."
5. Maintained By prorating expenses among members.
6. Opinion That the Joint Stock Office (Kansas City Terminal) was a railroad association con trolled and maintained wholly or principally by two or more "carrier employers" and en gaged in the performance of service in connection with or incidental to railroad transportation and consequently an "employer" under the Act.
7. Service Creditable From June 1, 1918, the date of its organi zation, to May 31, 1921, the date it was abolished.
8. Remarks Pay-roll records are in possession of the Kansas City Terminal Railway Company, Kansas City, Missouri.
General Counsel