Word: taximen
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...strike was short-lived. Bus drivers, taximen, public service workers, presumably inspired by their employers, had scarcely got it into momentum before Acting Governor Horton stepped in with a proclamation. The price of gasoline was 25?; he reduced it to 20? ordered the leading companies-Shell, Texaco, West India (Standard of New Jersey subsidiary), Pyramid-to keep it at that price until gasoline costs could be investigated. The Commissioner of Labor, a Puerto Rican, magnanimously suggested that if the companies starved on a 20? price, the Legislature should reimburse them for their loss...
...gentlemen of the Press. White-haired Dr. Davidson rushed into court breathless, flustered, 20 minutes late, followed by an infuriated taxi-driver who shouted that the defendant had slipped him a penny instead of a half-crown for his fare. Throughout the trial the rector had trouble with taximen. One day he had to borrow his fare from a reporter. Chief witness was 17-year-old Barbara Harris, who first complained of the rector's behavior to his bishop. Counsel for the Defense, a Mr. Levy, quickly proved that Miss Harris had had promiscuous affairs with various...
...time and energy. As champion of Manhattan's taxi industry he had to keep vigorously alive Taxi Weekly's battle for limitation of cab licenses, for higher rates.* He had to keep a critical eye upon efforts of various agencies to "organize" the city's taximen. He had to maintain his perpetual guard against unfair treatment of drivers by police. Most difficult and important of all, he had to continue striving to hold the confidence of four conflicting elements in the city's cab business: the driver, the owner-driver, the fleet owner, the company operator...
Promptly the police began to enforce the taxi ordinance, arrested 40 drivers without bond. Taximen, at the strikers' instigation, commenced to circumvent the ordinance by posting "Free Ride" stickers on their cars, accepting voluntary "contributions" from passengers. Public Service, Inc. met this move by hiring persons to ride the free taxis, to contribute nothing, to "break down the service...