Motormen Who Started Subway Strike -- Members of the Motormen's Benevolent Association give their support to motormen Jack Roth, checkered shirt, and John P. Sweeney, center, after their suspension triggered the strike which crippled New York's subway system. Vernon Deyo, unit chairman, shakes their hands and assures them union backing at Brooklyn meeting. Roth, Sweeney and another motorman were suspended when they refused to take supervisory personnel on practice run over parts of the underground system.

Associated Press · [ca. June 1956]

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