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...brotherhood bosses still refused to comply, apparently determined to make it clear that they would not give in until they were forced. Groups of grim men raced between Government buildings. Newsmen cornered Grand Chief Engineer Alvanley Johnston and demanded to know whether he would call off the strike if enjoined. Snapped Johnston: "Why ask such a damn silly question after what happened to John Lewis...
...Matter of Minutes. Royall summoned Johnston and his colleagues, the firemen's David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes...
...best-known of the three was Grand Chief Engineer Johnston who, along with the trainmen's A. F. Whitney, was scornfully denounced by Harry Truman two years ago when the pair tied up the railways. "These two men," the President had rasped-"Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston." Whitney has since forgiven Mr. Truman, and has announced that he will back him for renomination. Johnston is a Republican. He is a plain, blunt man who started his career as a callboy, vaguely resembles John L. Lewis, is publicly crotchety and privately pleasant...
Between 73-year-old Grand Chief Johnston and 72-year-old David Robertson, the wrinkled little chief of the firemen, there has been a long rivalry; they were trying to outdo each other as tough labor leaders. A. J. Glover, the big-boned boss of the switchmen, was newly elected; he also was trying to make a show with his rank & file. But all three leaders were chiefly resentful because railway wages had not kept pace with other industrial wages. Railway workers are no longer at the top of the labor heap. For oldtimers like Johnston and Robertson, this...
...then a downright embarrassing thing happened. Redheaded Christine Johnston, who says the governor is the father of her baby boy (TIME, March 15), filed 264 questions she wanted Jim to answer before her paternity suit goes to court. Hadn't Jim told Billy Pichelmayer that he and Christine were married and that she was pregnant? And hadn't he said: "Billy, us men ought to keep our wives barefooted and pregnant"? And hadn't Jim changed the baby's diapers and fed him his bottle...