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Show 5TDIKF MAQ ' Engineered by Politicians Politi-cians to Discredit Public Ownership New York, Jan. 4. Timothy Heal", ' president of the International Brotherhood Broth-erhood of Stationary Firemen, is authority au-thority for the statement that a recent re-cent brief strike of firemen on the municipal ferries, by which they cut off Statcn Island from communication communica-tion with the rest of the city for six hours, was part of a plot engineered by a politician to discredit municipal v ownership. Calvin Tompkins, commissioner of docks and ferries, backs him up. ' "Tho temporary discontinuance ipf the ferries of New York City," ho f-says f-says In a statement to the strikers, '"will bevelled all over the country as . -an .example, ot jhcu-urjdjisirablllty o - ci American'cldes "undertaking for them- r selves services which English and German cities are advantageously providing pro-viding for their Inhabitants. You t must realize the responsibility of your posts." " oo |