Mr Thomas IT. O’Shea, a former Communist, told the Dies Committee that Communist leaders in the Transport Workers’ Union possessed absolute power to paralyse New York’s subway system, states a New York message. The leaders planned to call a strike at the psychological moment to provoke a revolutionary situation. He added that the union had organised gun club members. Without warning the Transport Workers’ Union has called out on strike 6000 taxi drivers.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 9
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