Get military drivers in there. No pay for those union drivers, and tell them that since they refused to help their fellow citizens, no jobs for their union drivers during reconstruction
Get military drivers in there. No pay for those union drivers, and tell them that since they refused to help their fellow citizens, no jobs for their union drivers during reconstruction
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RR engineers had threatened to strike, virtually shutting down ALL Commerce when then President H S Truman asked the grand question:
‘Since you want to shut the country down by not operating your trains, perhaps you all would love to get drafted into the US Army and earn about 25 bucks a month?
We have a schedule to keep and it will be kept, one way or the other....’
NOT an ‘exact’ quote but the gist of his message - which was taken to heart by the RR people — is correct.