A City in Terror by Rosalind Russell

Author:Rosalind Russell [Russell, Rosalind]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8070-9666-6
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1975-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

* Several members of his committee felt that Storrow was conceding too much to the police. One member, Colonel Robert Goodwin, resigned in protest, writing, “I am firmly convinced that the stand taken by Commissioner Curtis is right and that he should have the frank and open support of every citizen who endorses his course.”

* Robert Lincoln O’Brien, the sharp-nosed editor of the Herald, considered that Coolidge in the police crisis was much influenced by Crane. O’Brien went so far as to call Crane the “Hamlet of the Police Strike drama.”

* In his Commissioner’s Report for 1919, Curtis explained his refusal in detail. He held that the Storrow proposal “was not prepared by the men, and the attitude of the men in regard to it was in no way indicated.” If the proposal showed a change of heart on the part of the nineteen suspended patrolmen, that change “was of importance only in the event of their being found guilty, in mitigation of the sentence to be imposed.” The proposal was “fundamentally incompatible with the responsibility to the public which the law calls upon the commissioner for the government of a police force and with a sense of responsibility to the commissioner which the members of the force must feel if proper discipline and efficiency are to be maintained.” Furthermore, the grievance board proposed by the plan would result in “a reversion to the state of divided responsibility, vacillating policy, and dilatory action” that the legislature had sought to eliminate when it did away with the board of commissioners.

* 1117 policemen struck. 427 did not, including those ill or on vacations.

* Expelled by the executive committee of the Socialist party, the Left-Wing rebels defiantly announced that “humanity can be saved from its last excesses only by the Communist Revolution.” The native-born English-speaking groups formed the Communist Labor party with a membership of about ten thousand; the semi-autonomous foreign-anguage groups such as the Boston Letts, numbering some sixty thousand, withdrew into the Communist party, nine tenths of whose members were aliens. Later, under orders from Moscow, the two groups would combine.

* I am grateful to the late Lawrence Wogan for this unrecorded incident that he witnessed from a few feet away as a young trooper.

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