Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss It. In Boston, a motorist followed a stranger's directions, wound up driving in a subway tunnel...
...half million subway riders in New York City last week faced the imminent threat of a strike in the underground transportation systems. City Government and labor leaders, howling bad cess at one another, had quarrelel themselves into a deadlock. The point at issue was fundamental to Government and union labor: have State or municipal employes a right to strike? The same question, in different terms, had been debated before-notably in Boston, Mass., when in 1919 Governor Calvin Coolidge called out the State Guard to break a policemen's strike. In New York City the situation was more complicated...
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...
...subway strike was perfectly digestible to Michael Quill, brass-mouthed boss of T.W.U. He promised a strike on July 1. And radical Mike Quill was backed by conservative C.I.O. leaders because they could see that, with Government spreading its jurisdiction over industry, trade unionism might eventually have to fight Civil Service for its life...
While New York's subway riders sighed with relief, the big question went undecided...