Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the city bought the subway lines, a year ago, it inherited union-shop contracts which C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union had made with their old private employers. Mayor LaGuardia hedged, declared that some of the provisions (union shop, seniority) were not admissible now that workers were under Civil Service. He accepted the contracts conditionally, decided not to force an issue until the contracts expired on June...
...Mayor flatly refused to renew the contracts. He contended: 1) that the city could not legally sign a contract that permitted collective bargaining;* 2) that, although the city would continue to confer with union leaders (or anyone else), it most decidedly would not require workers to join the union and pay union dues; 3) that municipal workers had absolutely no right to strike. Liberal though the little Mayor is, to give a union the power to deprive the people of his city of essential services was more than he could stomach...
...This May, New York City's Mayor LaGuardia became: 1. OPM Priorities Chief. 2. Secretary...
...Angeles, while Isolationist Charles Lindbergh* was calling for a negotiated peace at an America First rally, Mayor Fletcher Bowron proclaimed a citywide Loyalty Day. To President Roosevelt by air and train went several thousand pledges of unity, first of 2,000,000 to be circulated in Los Angeles County...
...Jasper McLevy, long-time Socialist Mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., who never finished high school, was made a Doctor of Municipal Administration by Wesleyan...