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Called Off The Job, those MTA operators stand and chat at utility’s Eagle street, East Boston yards while quarter-million stranded commuters scrambled for taxis or even thumbed rides home.
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Called Off The Job, those MTA operators stand and chat at utility’s Eagle street, East Boston yards while quarter-million stranded commuters scrambled for taxis or even thumbed rides home.

[ca. August 1960]

CC0 — Public Domain
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[Information from item housing] Labor: Strikes: Transit Workers: Mass 1960s

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