Word: quill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speeches and statements that issued from union halls, President Truman was a "double-crosser," a "strikebreaker" and the author of a "slave bill." Red Mike Quill, New York City's noisy American Labor Party councilman, shrilled: "President Truman has sold out to our native fascists . . . betrayed the program of Roosevelt...
...C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, led by Communist-line Mike Quill, had threatened to strike (TIME, March 4). When Mayor William O'Dwyer and public opinion stood firm, Mike Quill finally backed down. But the city's victory was only partial-it had just gained a calm opportunity to ponder the subway's physical and financial...
Michael J. Quill, belligerent, Communist-line boss of the disaffected, 110,000-member Transport Workers' Union, C.I.O., boomed his demands for a $2-a-day raise and exclusive bargaining rights for all the city's 32,000 transit workers. One point he made very clear: his civic responsibilities (as City Councilman from The Bronx) would not soften his determination to win. Another point that frightened New York City even more: Mike Quill insisted on his answer by Tuesday midnight of this week. It was an ultimatum...
Mayor William O'Dwyer, who had backpedaled before a Quill strike threat only a month before (over a proposed sale of the city's subway power plants to Consolidated Edison) seemed helpless to move anywhere this time. The city's counsel, John J. Bennett Jr. had issued a ruling: "It is clear that no one group of civil-service employes can be granted sole and exclusive bargaining rights as against a governmental body such as the [New York City] Board of Transportation...
...strike came, the life of a city of 7,500,000 would just about stop cold. In desperation, the Disaster Control Board alerted police, combed other city departments for amateurs who could run the trains if ruthless Mike Quill should say "strike...