National Affairs: Busmen's Holiday

Most U. S. citizens know that there are Communists in labor's ranks, frequently in key positions. But few citizens pay much attention. Last week they had good reason to look, and look again. In New York City 3,500 busmen struck, leaving 1,300 busses stalled, inconveniencing almost a million New Yorkers. The strike was engineered by Michael J. Quill, head of the Transport Workers Union.

Said the Daily News: "One orthodox Red tactic is to hit at a large community's key points — transportation, power plants, water works and the like — in the hope...

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