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Sharpening the Quill...
...people who elected John Lindsay. I remember no other politician who so quickly made such an ass of himself. If the people who protested the loudest about the strike had had relatives in the fight for higher wages, would they be so against the strike? Good for Michael Quill and his cause...
...unfortunate that in your otherwise sound editorial on the New York transit strike you found it necessary to pay obeisance to the prevailing impertinence of the New York Times editorial page by including the usual perfunctory criticism of Michael J. Quill. Although it tiptoes around it, the Crimson ignores the fact that under any circumstances collective bargaining is essentially an adversary process, in which both sides negotiate from a position of strength...
...situation such as that of Mr. Quill the situation is more than usually subtle. The inappropriateness of a strike against the public interest had forced the development of a whole arsenal of limited economic weapons which made possible the resolution of negotiations between adversaries. In effect what the New York Times chooses to call political deals and what Mr. Lindsay's spokesmen refer to as "dealing with the power brokers" was a limited form of collective bargaining, which allowed for the resolution of economic conflict without reliance on a strike--a confrontation based on limited economic weapons...
Where Mayor Wagner could appreciate Mike Quill's typically Irish humor and trade jokes with him, Mayor Lindsay seems to have treated him with that cold distaste and haughty contempt that characterize recent New York Times editorials. "If he wants to talk to me so much," Mike Quill reportedly said after one of the few times Lindsay had bothered to enter the transit negotiations, "then why does he insist on looking over the top of my head?" It should hardly be necessary to point out which Mayor's approach has been the more successful in protecting the public interest...