Moses endorsed suppressing civil servants who dared to unionize.

Evidence

What was of more concern to “the writer,” in fact, was that the lower-class workers might not understand this and might continue agitating—might, in fact, even form unions! Hopefully, a sense of loyalty would stop the workers short of such an act of open rebellion, but if this should not be the case, Moses said, “in the last analysis,” there must be “the remorseless exercise of the executive power of suppression and dismissal to solve this question.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 243

Categorization

• XREF: Direct foreshadowing of Moses’s later anti-union, anti-dissent governance style in the Triborough Authority and state jobs. — connects to: Moses regarded the human factor and public discussion as obstacles to suppress — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 323; Moses began weighing political costs against idealistic gains in state jobs — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 429

Broader Connections

• Moses regarded the human factor and public discussion as obstacles to suppress #expands (0.80) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 323
• Moses began weighing political costs against idealistic gains in state jobs #expands (0.75) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 429