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...This was the most significant advance in trolley-strike technique since 1909, when strikebreakers in Philadelphia staged a strike-within-a-strike. Hired on the understanding that they could pocket the fares, the strikebreakers went in for private initiative, insisted on running the cars back & forth on busy, profitable, short-haul streets. Result: chaos on Market Street, no trolleys in Manayunk...
Winged Victory. In Ottawa, Trolley Motorman George Boulay won a bingo game. Prize: 592 trolley tickets...
...Line. In Baltimore, Trolley Motorwoman Helen C. Matterson sued her motorman husband for divorce after she found him, she said, at a rendezvous with Motorwoman Helen Tafe-in a streetcar...
Does any ex-Dunsterman ever miss an occasion to draw unfavorable analogies between the apocryphal "then" and the ubiquitous "now"? In the Harvard of today a questionably humorous saga of good old K-Entry is almost as familiar and certainly not less annoying than the Massachusetts Avenue trolley line or the bolls of St. Paul...
While some unions still only talked of walking out, 400,000 workers had already done so. Much of industrial Massachusetts was without transportation because its bus and trolley workers had walked off the job; Governor Maurice J. Tobin seized the bus and trolley lines, in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The West Coast lumber industry was still stalemated by striking A.F. of L. lumbermen. In New York City, workers in pasteurization plants threatened a strike that would leave the city's 7½ million without milk...