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Mayor William O'Dwyer, who had backpedaled before a Quill strike threat only a month before (over a proposed sale of the city's subway power plants to Consolidated Edison) seemed helpless to move anywhere this time. The city's counsel, John J. Bennett Jr. had issued a ruling: "It is clear that no one group of civil-service employes can be granted sole and exclusive bargaining rights as against a governmental body such as the [New York City] Board of Transportation...
Mayor O'Dwyer, no man to meet any issue head on, tried to turn his back to Equity's plea. Last week he was cornered and asked for an answer. Said he: "There will be no dirty shows. I don't care what you call them." To Actors' Equity, or to any other citizen for that matter, 'this seemed no answer...
Then Actors' Equity Association began begging the new Mayor to let burlesque in again-at least on parole. In an open letter to self-made Mayor William O'Dwyer, Equity magazine presented its plea. Sure, burlesque had its faults, but they were not great enough "to justify annihilation." Even Boston and Philadelphia, "which take a very high moral stand on the theater," have their burlesque shows...
...York City's spasm of paralysis stemmed from a tugboat strike. When barge-borne supplies of fuel oil and coal dwindled dangerously, Mayor William O'Dwyer ordered the world's greatest city to shut down. It took hours to stop the furious pulse of the metropolis. Thousands of commuters milled at Grand Central and Pennsylvania Stations. Despite the hoarse cries of policemen, crowds of women gathered before stores, office workers went as usual to tall buildings. Many a citizen, numbed at the whole idea, simply stood gaping along the sidewalks. By the time the 18-hour...
...strike of New York's tugboat men, who haul in a major share of New York's daily supply of food, coal and fuel oil. The workers had agreed to arbitrate their demand for higher pay and shorter hours; when the operators refused, Mayor O'Dwyer pulled the switch...