Along with seniority the brotherhoods received the right of appeal in cases of discharge, which has done much to eliminate discrimination.
Seniority was all the more important since the train personnel service is so organized that each employe will pass several times in the regular course of his career from a lower to a higher rung on the industrial ladder.
Seniority also decides the assignment to "runs," which differ greatly in desirability, and it gives preference over junior employes in keeping the job when it is necessary to lay men off.
Seniority of committee service was also taken into account when the chairmanship of an important committee became vacant, the next ranking member of the committee having a strong claim to be promoted to the vacancy.
The Chief Justice sits in the middle of a row of chairs, his associates being arranged on his right and left in the order of seniority of service.
As Saleeby says:-- The greater theseniority of the husband, the more widowhood will there be in a society.
But it is well to insist that this seniority of the husband has remoter consequences far too important to be so commonly overlooked (Woman and Womanhood, 1912).
The whiteness of a white horse is undoubtedly the same as the whiteness of a white man; but the seniority of a horse is not the same as the seniority of a man.
Not because any abstract principle ofseniority exists subjectively in me, but in the same way that if I see an albino, I recognise him as a white man because he is so objectively to me.
By seniority he was entitled to the place in the event of a vacancy.
The President had the right under the law to fill the office of Lieutenant-General by selection, and he was not bound even by usage to regard any claim based only upon seniority of commission.
But as Abraham's birth had preceded that of Christ by more than nineteen centuries, suchseniority must have reference to a state of existence antedating that of mortality.
The fuller significance of this remark will be treated later; suffice it in the present connection to consider this scripture as a plain avowal of our Lord's seniority and supremacy over Abraham.
His seniority to Abraham plainly referred to the status of each in the antemortal or preexistent state; Jesus was as literally the Firstborn in the spirit-world, as He was the Only Begotten in the flesh.
It is out of the question, if the present principle of promotion by mere seniority is kept, to expect to get the best results from the higher officers.
The higher places should be given to the most deserving men without regard to seniority; at least seniority should be treated as only one consideration.
Promotion by mere seniority can never result in a thoroughly efficient corps of officers in the higher ranks unless there accompanies it a vigorous weeding-out process.
The only people who are contented with a system of promotion by mereseniority are those who are contented with the triumph of mediocrity over excellence.
It does not mean loss of retirement and seniority rights and benefits.
Rodgers may have been unconsciously swayed by the natural bias of an officer whose seniority would insure him a division, if the single-cruiser policy did not prevail.
These things are to be decided on by the twelve guardians of the law who are next in seniority to the five elders.
The fifteen eldest guardians of the law are to have special charge of all orphans, the whole number of fifteen being divided into bodies of three, who will succeed one another according to seniority every year for five years.
By the custom of the British Navy, then and now, promotions from the grade of Captain to that of Admiral are made by seniority only.
See Children, Old age, Old persons, Seniority Agricultural tribes, the position of women among, i.
In Madagascar so great respect is paid to seniority "that if two slaves who are brothers are going a journey, any burden must be carried by the younger one, so far at least as his strength will allow.
Among the Point Barrow Eskimo, again, "seniority gives precedence when there are several women in one hut, and the sway of the elder in the direction of everything connected with her duties seems never disputed.
This young advocate is now appointed Rector Decuriarum, and thus accorded the privilege of seniority over many men who are much older than himself.
The reason for this change was that the unchecked application of the principle of seniority to so large a body of public servants was throwing all the more important offices in the Courts of Justice into the hands of old men.
Larry's three years of seniority had only deepened the reverence and loyalty that he had inspired in his youngest follower; he had never presumed upon them; he had been a chieftain worthy of homage, and he had Had all Christian's.
He rarely bestowed the usual honorifics upon Dick, considering that his five years' seniority relieved him of such obligations.
This sexual egoism, by which one man through his strength and seniority held marital rights over all the females of his group, had to be struck at its roots.
It is rather perhaps I who am guilty of impertinence, if I take advantage of my seniority in years and tender you a counsel.
And in any case the seniority rule will be severely tested in the Senate.
The seniority rule, by which committee chairmanships went not to ability but to long service, favored mediocrity and second childhood.
The seniority rule, to which reference has been made before, must be abolished before talent will have its opportunity in the legislative branch.
Both irregulars will then attain places of vast power unless the seniority rule is abrogated.
Already the seniority rule has been broken in the House, when Martin Madden was made Chairman of the Appropriations Committee instead of the senior Republican, an inadequate person from Minnesota.
Personal association and its seniority above all except Dieppe have led me already to mention Wimereux, but the golf of Wimereux is not the queen of the game of northern seaside France.
I have shown that in democratic armies, and in time of peace, the rule of seniority is the supreme and inflexible law of advancement.
All the ambitious spirits of a democratic army are consequently ardently desirous of war, because war makes vacancies, and warrants the violation of that law of seniority which is the sole privilege natural to democracy.
As the seniority of Jupiter is upheld by the Erinuës, so in like manner are the parental rights of Juno, which had been infringed by Mars, when he changed sides in the war.
Iris, the messenger, who hears him, in her reply founds the superiority of Jupiter on his seniority only.
As soon as the regulation, recognizing the claims of seniority was proposed, its advocates were, no doubt, prepared to recommend it by arguments which possessed at least considerable plausibility.
It is a curious and striking fact, arguing strongly in favour of the antiquity of their Church polity, that among the Vaudois Barbs of old the claims of seniority were distinctly acknowledged.
Then those ships are immediately to form the line without any regard to seniority or the general form delivered, but according to their distances from the enemy, viz.
These ships to form without any regard to seniority or the order of battle.
Michael no longer regarded, save in a contemptuous aside, the microcosm of school; the pleasures of seniority had staled; the whole business was now a tedious sort of mental quarantine.
He gave up worrying about the war and yielded himself entirely either to the blandishments of his seniority in the school or of dreams about himself at Oxford, now within sight of attainment.
