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...Board also noted that in the area between Mt. Auburn St. and Harvard Sq." the problem is quite difficult." It proposed shifting the line gradually from the MTA carbarn side of the street towards the easterly side, estimating that the buildings on that side are in "relatively poorer condition" and would therefore probably be replaced sooner...
There are no immediate plans to resume talks for the property. Pompeo stated that he has not received an offer from the University to provide another location for the carbarn. He said that Harvard is the only concern interested in acquiring the land...
Next day the conductors showed up to picket the carbarn. Some wore flaming red armbands, others sported miniatures of the Communist flag that hung from the balcony of their union headquarters across the street. Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song...
Strikers set up headquarters in the city's largest carbarn (without audible protest from the company). Up on a toolbox jumped burly, bull-voiced James Henry McMenamin, 43, to take command. He shouted: "It's white against black!" He well knew that the company's 600 Negro employes had hitherto worked peacefully (in menial jobs) beside other workers. But now, he pointed out, as motormen, they could sit on the same benches as whites. Cried McMenamin: "The colored people have bedbugs...
...Army moved in. Under a Presidential order, Major General Philip Hayes took control of the city's transit system. He broadcast instructions to the strikers to return to work at the next 5:30 a.m. shift and sent two soldiers to raise an American flag over the carbarn where the strikers made their headquarters. As the flag flapped up to the top of the pole one of the strikers began to sing the Star Spangled Banner. About 2,000 shirt-sleeved, sweaty strikers joined in. Even James McMenamin seemed affected. He jumped up, shouting in a voice hoarsened...