, Steve Kay wrote: > > Andy, > > Don't forget that hiring strikebreakers was not considered unusual during > > that time period, and that local, and state law enforcement and even Federal > > Troops were commonly used to end strikes. > > Not unlike today although they are called "replacement workers" and court > injunctions. Court injucnction came in handy for NJT workers about ten years ago when the president of the clerks union called a strike in sympothy with striking Continental Airline workers. No questions asked, no strike vote; we clerks were just told that we were going on strike. The judge foiled that. Philip Marti The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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