The railway strike was broken. Before he went to Capitol Hill to ask, dramatically, for his strikebreaking measures, Harry Truman was reasonably sure that he had won the railway war. But the baffling civil war was not won. There was still John Lewis, glowering on the left flankĀor was it the right flank? Joe Curran, clearly on the red left, threatened to tie up merchant shipping on June 15 by calling out the maritime unions.
Harry Truman could not stand much more of the kind of humiliation he had suffered at the hands...
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