Hav<strong>in</strong>g accepted the NLRB as a legal body with authority over employers engaged <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>terstatecommerce, the court then set about restrict<strong>in</strong>g workers' rights under the Wagner Act. In 1939,it outlawed the sit-down strike <strong>in</strong> the Fansteel case, <strong>and</strong> decided that the Wagner Act could notforce employers to make concessions to workers. In other decisions, the courts re<strong>in</strong>forced employers'rights <strong>and</strong> limited workers' rights by hold<strong>in</strong>g: (I) that the Act did not <strong>in</strong>terfere with theemployer's right to select employees or discharge them; (2) that, if the employers barga<strong>in</strong>ed to'an impasse,' they could unilaterally impose terms, but the workers could not strike while undercontract; (3) that the employees' right to strike did not <strong>in</strong>clude the license to 'seize the employers'plants' as <strong>in</strong> sit-down strikes; (4) that unions were <strong>in</strong>stitutions apart from their members <strong>and</strong>that union leaders, therefore, had [0 police their unions <strong>and</strong> ensure 'responsible behavior.' Insum, the courts allowed unions to engage <strong>in</strong> collective barga<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g over a limited range of issues,but prohibited them from us<strong>in</strong>g the k<strong>in</strong>d of militant, direct action that had built the CIO."James R. Green, The World of the Worker: Labor <strong>in</strong> Twentieth-Century <strong>America</strong> (New York: Hill<strong>and</strong> Wang, 1980), 165-166. See also: Harr<strong>in</strong>g, Polic<strong>in</strong>g a Class Society, 257.101 "The <strong>in</strong>stitutionalization of the new unions began soon after their explosive creation <strong>in</strong> the massstrikes of the mid-thirties. The top leaders hastened this process, especially after the employers'vicious counterattack <strong>in</strong> 1937. Moreover, the whole structure of collective barga<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, asdeterm<strong>in</strong>ed bv the courts <strong>and</strong> the NLRB, favored a more rout<strong>in</strong>ized. bus<strong>in</strong>esslike relationshipbetween top leaders of labor <strong>and</strong> management, with the government as referee. As a result, manyof the issues, such as speedup. that precipitated the orig<strong>in</strong>al labor revolts were shunted aside."Green, World of the Wo rker, 172.102 One high-rank<strong>in</strong>g police official attributed the General Strike to just this change of leadership:"the rank-<strong>and</strong>-file workers became conv<strong>in</strong>ced that their leaders were too much h<strong>and</strong>-<strong>in</strong>-glovewith the <strong>in</strong>dustrial <strong>in</strong>terests of the city." Quoted <strong>in</strong> Brecher, Strike! 252.Chapter 6: <strong>Police</strong> Autonomy <strong>and</strong> <strong>Blue</strong> <strong>Power</strong>"If there is any group for whom unions <strong>and</strong> job actions seemed unlikely, it was the police personnel.Their job is to preserve Jaw <strong>and</strong> order; they have traditionally been the strike breakers; <strong>and</strong>they have been subject to the harshest restrictions aga<strong>in</strong>st their unionization." Margaret Levi,Bureaucratic lnsurgency: The Case of <strong>Police</strong> Unions (Lex<strong>in</strong>gton, MA: Lex<strong>in</strong>gton Books, 1977), 2.2 Robert M. Fogelson, Big- City <strong>Police</strong> (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977), 196. FOPswere also organized geographically, rather than by department. And they sometimes formed auxiliaries<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g people from outside of law enforcement. William J. Bopp, "The <strong>Police</strong> Rebell<strong>in</strong>n," <strong>in</strong>The Po lice Rebellion, ed. William J. Bopp (Spr<strong>in</strong>gfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1971), 13.3 Fogelson, Big- City <strong>Police</strong>, 196-1974 Fogelson, Big- City <strong>Police</strong>, 81; <strong>and</strong> Richard L. Lyons, "The Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike of 1919," TheNew Hngl<strong>and</strong> Quarterly (June 1947): 164. In June 1919, the AFL announced that it would beg<strong>in</strong>charter<strong>in</strong>g police unions. By the end of August, thirty-eight such charters had been issued. Lyons,"Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 151; <strong>and</strong> Francis Russell, A City <strong>in</strong> Terror-1919- The Boston <strong>Police</strong>Strike (New Yo rk: Vik<strong>in</strong>g Press, 1975), 25.'i Russell, City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 50-5 1 <strong>and</strong> 73; <strong>and</strong> Lyons, "Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 148-149. Of the 1,544patrolmen, 940 voted for tbe union; no one voted aga<strong>in</strong>st it. Lyons, "Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 155.6 Russell, City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 78.7 Lyons, "Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 148. Boston was not actually the country's first police strike. Thathonor goes to a successful walkout among the Ithaca police <strong>in</strong> 1889. The city council voted tolower police pay, the police struck, <strong>and</strong> the council immediately resc<strong>in</strong>ded their decision. Russell,City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 233.8 Of 1,544 officers, 1,117 went on strike, leav<strong>in</strong>g the force at about one-quarter strength. Lyons,"Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 160.9 Russell, City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 131, 133, <strong>and</strong> 137-138.10 Russell, City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 122-12 5.11 Russell, City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 151-152. Additionally, 100 of the 183 state-controlled MetropolitanPark <strong>Police</strong> were put at Curtis's disposal. (But fifty-eight of these refused tbe duty <strong>and</strong> weresuspended.) Private companies armed their employees or hired guards, Harvard was patrolled bythe university police <strong>and</strong> ROTC, <strong>and</strong> federal property was protected by the army. Russell, City<strong>in</strong> Terror, 119, 127, 150, <strong>and</strong> 166.12 Russell, City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 149 <strong>and</strong> 159.13 Russell, City <strong>in</strong> TerrO/; 162-163 <strong>and</strong> 167- 170.14 Russell, City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 181-182 <strong>and</strong> 217; <strong>and</strong> Lyons, "Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 165. Meanwhile,Governor Calv<strong>in</strong> Coolidge, who had <strong>in</strong>itially refused Mayor Andrew Peters' request for NationalGuard deployment, positioned himself to take credit for break<strong>in</strong>g the strike, issu<strong>in</strong>g an executiveorder plac<strong>in</strong>g himself <strong>in</strong> control of the Boston <strong>Police</strong> Department. He eventually used the267
lr)N...INN...VJC)g;0VJE-03132333435.>637383940414243strike to leverage himself <strong>in</strong>to the presidency. Russell. City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 173-174 <strong>and</strong> 196-198; <strong>and</strong>Lyons, "Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 159 .Lyons, "Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 166. After the strike, it rook the police department a while to reform itself. For one th<strong>in</strong>g, it had lost most of its officers <strong>and</strong>, with the stigma of strikebreak<strong>in</strong>gso fresh, Clced considerahle difficulty f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g recruits. 'j() make matters worse, tailors rdllsed tomake new unif')rms. Lyons, "Boston <strong>Police</strong> Strike," 165.Russell, City <strong>in</strong> Terror, 234 <strong>and</strong> 2.19; <strong>and</strong> Fogelson, Big- City <strong>Police</strong>. 195.Russell, City <strong>in</strong> lerror, 48-49 <strong>and</strong> 183.Fogelson, Big- City <strong>Police</strong>, 81-82.Levi, BumlUcratic Insurgeruy, 13 <strong>and</strong> 28-29. Carl Parsell referred to this mode of operation as"collective begg<strong>in</strong>g." Quoted <strong>in</strong> Fogelson, Big- City <strong>Police</strong>, 200.Additionally, the FOP had 169 local chapters. Levi, Bureaucratic Insurgency, 7.The mayor of Jackson, Mississif'pi, fo r example, fired thirry-six officers fo r organiz<strong>in</strong>g with anAFL affiliate. Levi, Bureaucratic <strong>in</strong>Jllrgeruy, 132.Levi, Bureaucratic Insurgency, 30-3 1.Quoted <strong>in</strong> Levi, Bureaucmtic Imurge",y, 31.Levi, Bureaucrdtic IllJ urgency, 91-92.Quoted <strong>in</strong> Levi, Bureaucrdtic <strong>in</strong>surge",y, 9.1.Quoted <strong>in</strong> Levi, Bureducrrllic Insurge",y, ,) 1.Levi, Bureaucratic Insurgency, 4.1. This dynamic was <strong>in</strong> effect <strong>in</strong> cities throughout the country.See: Fogelson, Big-City Po lice, 204.Quoted <strong>in</strong> Levi, Bureducratic Insurgency, 4,'\.Levi, Bureatlcratic Insurgency, 49-5 1.Levi, Bureaucratic Insurgency, 54-55 .fogelson, Big- City Po lice, 210.Rodney Stark, <strong>Police</strong> Riots: Collective Violence <strong>and</strong> Lall! Enforcement (Belmont, CA: focus Books,1972), 202.Levi, Bureaucratic Imurgency, 135.I.evi. Bureaucratic Imurgency, 140.These strikes occurred <strong>in</strong> 1974, 1977, 1978, <strong>and</strong> 1979. respectively. Richard J. Lundman, <strong>Police</strong><strong>and</strong> Polic<strong>in</strong>g: An <strong>in</strong>troduction (New York: Holt, R<strong>in</strong>ehart, <strong>and</strong> W<strong>in</strong>ston, 1980), 41."The authorities sharply denounced these job actions; but they were so anxious to get the officersback on the street <strong>and</strong> so reluctant to tangle with the union that. <strong>in</strong>stead of <strong>in</strong>vok<strong>in</strong>g the legalsanctions, they usually gave <strong>in</strong> to the dem<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> granted amnesty to the strikers." Fogelson,Big- City Po lice, 213.William J. Bopp, "The Detroit <strong>Police</strong> Revolt," <strong>in</strong> The <strong>Police</strong> Rebellion, ed. William J. Bopp(Spr<strong>in</strong>gfield. Tl : r.h::lri("1.: r Thnm
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