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...said, "than a rat by a Red." He was "Red Mike" then, one of the most radical of the American Labor Party leaders. By the time he broke with the Communists in 1948, the union was secure. The Democrats who controlled city hall-and the transit budget-were more reliable allies, and Mike became a loud antiCommunist...
...biggest aftereffect of this month's crippling New York transit strike may be on organized labor itself...
...Rene Cappon was not ready to let the story drop. He suspected that there might be more to tell, and he was a conscientious enough journalist to put a routine note in his "futures file" as a reminder to check up on Negrón early in 1966. The transit strike finally out of the way, an A.P. reporter made a call to Negrón. Cappon quickly learned that he had another big story...
...that the Administration, while merely grumbling about wage increases, coerces observance of the price ceiling. Thus, when Bethlehem Steel last fortnight tried to raise prices on structural steel by $5 a ton, Johnson ordered all federal agencies to refuse to buy Bethlehem structurals. Yet, while New York's transit workers were winning an infinitely more inflationary contract, Johnson said nothing...
...Either transit fares or real estate taxes seem sure to go up in San Francisco because of the costly settlement that ended New York City's twelve-day transit strike. Transit wages in the Golden Gate city are tied by contract formula to those in New York, highest in the nation. As a result, San Francisco's transit wage bill could rise by $572,000 a year next July 1 and by another $1,600,000 a year in 1967. Meeting that cost would require a 100 rise in realty taxes, from today's rate...