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...deep in the troubled heart of modern unionism, where skilled laborers and craftsmen are fighting for their due in a world of monolithic industrial unionism. The Motormen's Benevolent Association, made up of 80% of the subway motormen, had been fighting the domination of the city's transit system by a powerful professional Irishman, Transport Workers Union President Mike Quill, and the determination of the mayor's Transit Authority to deal only with politically powerful T.W.U. Last year, when the motormen challenged Quill in a fight, a state supreme court enjoined M.B.A. President Theodore Loos and three...
...YORK, Dec. 16--The worst subway strike in New York's history ended tonight, after eight days of vast transit confusion above and below ground. It had persisted in defiance of state law and court order...
...YORK, Dec. 10--A growing subway strike, worst in the city's history, converted New York today into a vast, hopeless traffic jam. Two-thirds of the city's rapid transit service was knocked...
...Transit Authority threatened the 6,000 strikers and sympathizers with dismissal if they did not return at once to work. Otherwise, all the TA was able to do was offer overtime pay and a 25 per cent bonus to non-striking underground employees...
Loos and the Benevolent men were upset over the Transit Authority's fact-finding committee, a panel which recently decided that all subway operators belong in the same union. This, reasoned Loos, sold out Benevolent to Mike Quill and the bigger, well-primed Transit Workers...