Word: looseness
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The cause of the strike lay deep in the troubled heart of modern unionism, where skilled laborers and craftsmen are fighting for their due in a world of monolithic industrial unionism. The Motormen's Benevolent Association, made up of 80% of the subway motormen, had been fighting the domination...
Four top MBA officers, including President Theodore Loos, spent the entire strike in jail for contempt of a court's no-strike injunction.
Professional labor leaders--in the middle of an Atlantic City convention--wiped their foreheads and returned to the bar. New York politicos mumbled a sigh and turned to their work. "Gee," said Theodore Loos in his subway cab to a lingering reporter, "wouldn't it have been a dandy if...
Loos went to work that day, and was available to the press only at a ten-minute break in the afternoon. He spent the night playing chess with a World-Telegram reporter (he learned to play by mail) and by morning decided to call the whole thing off.
Theodore Loos and a number of the Benevolent men are in jail this morning, and Mike Quill in hurried conference with grim lieutenants. It's like the old days, sort of novel and romantic--and a source of grudging pride.