Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Great Bus Strike
At ten minutes to five on the morning of Monday, March 10, 1941, Frank Hickey walked into the omammoth garage of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company on 132nd Street and Broadway in New York City. He distributed some leaflets to the men inside, shouted Five o'clock, then left. Ten minutes later all the workers in the garage laid down their tools and walked out. They took picket signs from Hickey who was waiting outside, and marched in a line before the garage. From time to time other mechanics, bus drivers, and conductors reporting for work came up to the door of the garage, saw the picket line and halted. They were told The strike is on. Some joined the line; the rest were advised to report for instructions at Union headquarters, Transport Workers Hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
