One bright ray of sunshine fell on Local 103 in November 1921 when Bostonians re-elected James M. Curley to the office of Mayor of Boston. Member of Local 103 from Curley's ward who were out of work during the strike worked 24 hours per day at rallies and social teas with Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Jewish, Catholic, and Scandinavian to get a Democrat back in City Hall. Curley would never forget his friends from Roxbury and South Boston; Joseph A. Slattery, (returning World War I veteran with his gold watch fob), and Walter J. Monahan, a neighbor from East Lennox Street in Roxbury, not yet 20 years old, but a ward healer for Curley.

In June of 1922, Mayor Curley called a meeting at City Hall between the B.T.E.A.and the building trades unions. After several meetings in which the Mayor chaired and mediated. He paved the way for a settlement in the year and a half strike. It was the concensus of opinion, that had Mayor Curley been holding office in 1919-1921, the policemen's strike and the Building Trades strike would have been averted.