Word: motormen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken a story about the New York Transit Authority's having illicitly taped meetings of the Motormen's Benevolent Association. Gene Gleason, 32, was indeed in the mold of the crusading reporter -until last week, when he suddenly found himself a confessed liar...
...York subway strike and the ensuing controversy about the microphones the Transit Authority had placed in the offices of the Motormen's Benevolent Association has always been an edifying spectacle. The latest development is a statement which ought to endure as a classic in the field of civil liberties...
...cause of the strike lay 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...
...week's end some discouraged motormen, threatened with dismissal, were shuffling sadly back to work. Subway service was clunking back to normal-and so was the city. Bedeviled Mayor Wagner (a "jellyfish," snorted the New York Herald Tribune), refused to discuss the issue until the M.B.A. canceled its "illegal strike." The motormen could only appeal to Democratic Governor Averell Harriman, who, many suspected, would only appeal to Bob Wagner, who would only appeal...
...week the strike had cost city retailers more than $10 million, the city itself $2,000,000 in sales taxes and $1,000,000 more in subway revenues. There was little doubt that, in spite of the tough talk and threatened firings, the subway motormen had made it pretty clear to the jittery city that they wanted to be alone...