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...decided on the fireman scheme--the first time it has been used--through a simple process of elimination. "First someone suggested Russians, Cossacks I suppose he meant," Victor O. Jones '28 remarked Sunday night, "but we rejected that because of the present situation. Another thought was pirates. Firemen won probably for the nice color and the coolness...
...million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous responsibilities. He is the commander of a sizable army-19,000 policemen, 11,000 firemen, 120,000 other municipal employees...
...Matter of Minutes. Royall summoned Johnston and his colleagues, the firemen's David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes...
...engineers, firemen and switchmen (representing 190,000 railway employees), held out. These three wanted a 30% boost and numerous changes in work, overtime and vacation rules which the railways estimated would add $500 million to payrolls. The issues were complicated. Negotiation, conciliation failed to resolve them. It was a situation for impartial judges to decide...
Between 73-year-old Grand Chief Johnston and 72-year-old David Robertson, the wrinkled little chief of the firemen, there has been a long rivalry; they were trying to outdo each other as tough labor leaders. A. J. Glover, the big-boned boss of the switchmen, was newly elected; he also was trying to make a show with his rank & file. But all three leaders were chiefly resentful because railway wages had not kept pace with other industrial wages. Railway workers are no longer at the top of the labor heap. For oldtimers like Johnston and Robertson, this...