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...host of dignitaries, a greater host of firemen and police, turned up for the new dress rehearsal. On one side of the curtain was a tense cast, on the other a tense audience. Suddenly the director flung out on the stage, spluttered that there would be no performance. Ording had had the last laugh on The Last Cry-he too had disappeared. He and his wife trudged through knee-deep snow for three hours with a howling six-week-old baby, reached Sweden and safety...
...Mike Ross, did not contemplate promoting Negroes to the job of engineers. FEPC merely wanred to restore the Negroes' chance to rise to the job of fireman, to give them an equal chance at other jobs down the line. He cited figures showing a recent shortage of 850 firemen on U.S. railroads, although trained Negro firemen were unemployed. Chairman Ross was itching for a showdown. Said he: "We may not be able to wipe out discrimination overnight, but where war manpower needs are at stake we can and shall...
...once the status quo. Almost the oldest tradition in Southern railroading is the Negro fireman. For years, no white wanted the job; and every Negro railroader recalls that Casey Jones's fireman was a Negro. But in time, whites wanted and took the job of fireman. The firemen's union barred Negroes from membership. Whenever a Negro fireman died, he was replaced by a white...
...long ago a Boston patrol, made up of a physician, a druggist, a bookseller and an undertaker, spotted a fire in the coal docks, fought the blaze until the firemen arrived, probably saved the Boston waterfront from a major disaster...
Said Censor Price: "I solicit continued cooperation to see . . . that a dangerous psychology of overcensorship is not created throughout the land by the activities of a miscellany of volunteer firemen...