Word: tugboat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bargaining. Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg has no plans to step into every strike that appears on the horizon of the New Frontier, plans to save his referee's whistle for situations where major sections of the economy are involved. But Goldberg's intervention in the New York tugboat and railroad strike (see Labor), however dramatic and however salutary at the moment of its settlement, may well make it harder for the Administration to carry out its planned policies...
...required only 660 well-paid (from $440 to $674 per month) railroad tugboat workers, plus a blizzard, to bring complete and even desperate confusion last week to New York City and much of the U.S. Northeast. Early in the week, tugboat-union pickets marched outside Manhattan's Grand Central Station, managed to close the New York Central Railroad. A couple of days later, the New Haven Railroad was forced to shut down. At that point, more than 100,000 commuters had been forced to find new ways of getting to work-and the snowstorm made things tougher...