All through the weekend the U.S. people wondered: Will there be another railroad strike? The memory of the last one in 1946was still green.
Hour after hour, the President's labor adviser, John Steelman, sweated through negotiations at the White House with management and labor. They came to nothing. This week, 18 hours before the strike deadline, Harry Truman seized the roads to prevent "a nationwide tragedy." He put Secretary of the Army Royall in charge of the railways, ordered the Army to operate them. Then he gave the three stubborn brotherhoodsthe engineers,...
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