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Subway Strike Triggers Citywide Service Push
New York City enters the second week of a subway strike as 11,000 transit workers walk out. The Transit Authority accelerates service by reallocating motormen, plans cross-division staffing to aid Brooklyn and Queens, and negotiates with unions led by the MBA and Transport Workers Union. FBI joins probes into misconduct while Mayor Wagner offers a peace plan and warns against blackmail.
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New York
Transit Authority
Brooklyn
Queens
Eee
Learse
4Th Ave
Emil
FBI
Tian
Subway
Manhattan
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
Autis Waldman
Motormen’s Benevolent Assn
Michael J. Quill
Transport Workers Union