Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . to the support of what was agreed to be for thepulilic interest. He vetoed an undesirable Washington street subwaybill in Boston, which failed duly to protect the interests of the ])ublic,and there was a furious fight to pass the nieasure over his head, whichhappily ended in his favor; and the next year, by tactful yet masterfulco-operation with Mayor Collins and the elevated railway people, properlegislation was achieved. One of Governor Cranes important successes was in unofficiallv but
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts . to the support of what was agreed to be for thepulilic interest. He vetoed an undesirable Washington street subwaybill in Boston, which failed duly to protect the interests of the ])ublic,and there was a furious fight to pass the nieasure over his head, whichhappily ended in his favor; and the next year, by tactful yet masterfulco-operation with Mayor Collins and the elevated railway people, properlegislation was achieved. One of Governor Cranes important successes was in unofficiallv butnone the less effectually bringingpeace out of the great strike whichsadly disturbed Boston and threatened all New England, in March, method then employed was subsecjuently taken by President Roose-velt, upon the urgent insistence of the Massachusetts governor, in set-tling the great coal strike. The story of the Massachusetts strike wasthus told in the Boston Post: Thousands of men from the different railroads of Boston, andmany more thousands engaged in trucking the citys merchandise, threw.
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