Word: weinbergs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this good news has been pushed off the front page by the saga of Harry Weinberg, new president of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, and his one-man war against traffic sanity in New York. Weinberg, who took over the line several months ago from a management that confessed to its own incompetence, has proved an impossible man to deal with. His intransigence has resulted in the present strike of the Transit Workers against his line, and a new political struggle over the line's future between Mayor Wagner and Albany Republicans...
...problems which Weinberg's cabal was called in to solve affect every aspect of New York's present crisis. For a really adequate system of public transportation is the only alternative to increased private traffic on the city's streets. And, as Paul Goodman in a recent book of Utopian Proposals suggested, any final solution of the transportation problem must strictly limit--if not eliminate--the use of private automobiles, at least during certain hours...
...vexing one, but its introduction into the present controversy is a little misleading. For the real issue here is not a possible fare-rise; New Yorkers would grumble and pay, if they got in return a comfortable ride and a better-ordered city. What is at stake in the Weinberg-Wagner donnybrook is the City's right to secure those two desiderata for its citizens, if necessary at a loss...
...either studied the problem or ever tried to get cross-town takes issue with this view--no one, that is, except Mr. Weinberg. After taking charge, he not only requested a price hike (from the present 15 cents to 20 cents); he called for a drastic cut-back in personnel, and suggested sharply reduced service (nothing after 11 p.m., little on Sunday). In protest against the dismissal of twenty-nine employees (which it interpreted as the beginning of a real purge), the TWU struck Mr. Weinberg, and the Mayor demanded fast action by the State on legislation enabling...
...MUCKRAKERS (449 pp.)-Edited by Arthur and Lila Weinberg-Simon & Schuster...