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...argued the labor bosses. They had an accumulation of other resentments: the President's recent attack on the railway brotherhood chieftains; the fact that Labor Secretary Maurice Tobin, labor's great & good friend, had been denied a position of more influence. They were bitter over the fact that John L. Lewis had pried loose a 20% wage boost for his miners. But above all, the bosses of Big Labor resented being left out of the top policy-making jobs in the defense program, while bosses from Big Business run the show. Big Labor knows very well that...
...last December (an amount which the brotherhoods had rejected). No one expected the brotherhoods to be satisfied with that. The brotherhoods smarted under their defeat, under the President's harsh words, and, incidentally, under a federal judge's verdict that William P. Kennedy's Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen was in contempt of court ($25,000 fine) for defying a back-to-work order last December...
Salve. To soothe labor's slow burn, the mobilization high command quickly made a salving gesture. Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston appointed George M. Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, to be a special assistant, specializing in price and wage issues. It was a salve-but not enough to quiet union leaders' grumbles...
...railway worker and great-grandson of a Methodist bishop, Bradford picked up his Runyonesque jargon as a carnival piano player, horse trainer, apprentice embalmer, boxer ("I was stomped on up and down the border for five pesos and a bowl of chili per fight"). He once carried a spear in Aïda when Caruso sang Radames...
...Winter trippers enjoyed the cockfights and mule races in New Orleans, sunned in Galveston. Florida's coastal resorts were just opening up, thanks to Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Daytona Beach was the tourist center. Miami Beach and Palm Beach did not yet exist. Only adventuresome women dared to bathe, clad in knee-length, pantalooned dresses, corsets, and beach shoes...