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...short time, McNear was making money on his "two streaks of rust." Then he started battling labor unions. In 1929 he rode a cowcatcher through an engineers' picket line to break his first strike. In 1941, he took on the railroad brotherhoods again, rode out shootings and fires, finally refused Government arbitration and lost his road by seizure...
When he got it back, the brotherhoods walked out again. Then, in February 1946, the fight took an ugly turn. Two pickets were killed in a battle with guards on an armored train. The guards were acquitted of manslaughter charges; McNear was never linked with the shooting...
Little businessmen along George P. McNear Jr.'s Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad were tired of the four-month strike on the road which had kept them from shipping grain, coal and steel. They were also mad enough four months later to do something about it. Nineteen shippers made up a $10,000 pool, used it to hire a smart lawyer. He went into Federal Court with a novel plea: the T. P. & W. (though highly solvent), was "physically bankrupt," so a receiver should be appointed to run the trains...
...McNear, who has been bitterly fighting the unions almost continuously since he bought the line in 1926, was at lunch in Peoria's Creve Coeur Club when the shooting broke out. Afterward he insisted that the strikers had fired first; the guards in self-defense. Next day he took...
Thus had come the first U.S. strike killing in three years. George McNear's tracks were red now with more than rust...