Word: blackmailed
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...commission plan was not originally his nor first advanced by him; Johnson, in a conversation with Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen had "welcomed" the notion of a commission and asked Sorensen for specific suggestions. The White House remained officially silent, but aides regarded the scheme as an ultimatum, or blackmail. That, Kennedy said, was an "incredible distortion...
...city hall through the extraordinary device of proposing that the state temporarily take over the sanitation department. That seemed to leave his fellow Republican, Mayor John Lindsay, no option except surrender. Lindsay had the choice of signing a contract he had already described as a "little bit of blackmail" or watching the state move in and fulfill the same terms with city funds...
Wallace's hopes of obtaining enough electoral votes to blackmail a major candidate into a "coalition government" will probably prove fruitless. If Nixon is the Republican nominee, Wallace's candidacy is most likely to result in Johnson's re-election. His racist campaign in the fall will only heighten tensions already intensified by a summer of unprecedented violence in the cities...
Immediate Rebuff. Next day, the strike was on. Refusing to knuckle under to what he called "blackmail, brute force and muscle," Lindsay fought back as best he could with legal action and calls for unity. He was determined to bring order into the city's chaotic labor relations and to counter the threat of public strikes that, though banned by state law, have been used to win fat contract settlements. "Now is the time and here is the place," he declared, "for the city to determine what it is made...
...Little Blackmail. Rockefeller, with control over the Guard his trump, seized the initiative from Lindsay by taking over the negotiations. He named his own mediation panel to supplant the mayor's and treated the outlaw union with unwonted deference. Rockefeller's mediators proposed a pay increase of $425. The union accepted immediately, and the Governor hailed the proposal as "fair and reasonable." Lindsay rejected it out of hand. Though the difference over wages had become seemingly insignificant, Lindsay was determined not to reward the strikers with a figure above what the union leadership had been willing to accept...