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...Michael J. Quill, 60, an intransigent, fork-tongued man with a shanty Irish brogue who is founder and president of the Transport Workers Union and a raving Anglophobe who fought in the Irish Revolutionary Army. He had a meager childhood on a County Kerry farm, immigrated to the U.S. in 1926, sold religious pictures in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, later became a ditchdigger and a change maker in the New York subway system. Quill was a loyal Communist-liner when he founded the T.W.U. in 1934, once said, "I'd rather be called...
...articulate, patrician John V. Lindsay, 44, a WASP product of the Ivy League and the winner of four terms as Congressman from Manhattan's 17th ("Silk Stocking") District, who took over as the city's first Republican mayor in 20 years the week the strike began. Quill's unconcealed enmity toward Lindsay was partially a product of their sharply different backgrounds, but it stemmed largely from the new mayor's unmistakable determination to bring a semblance of order and responsibility into the city's labor relations-a determination that Quill saw as a clear...
...Mike Quill has brought New York City to the brink of a transit strike dozens of times-and backed down, each time at the last minute. Quill and the city's Democratic mayors usually have worked out a cozy deal in advance, compromising between what Quill felt he needed and what the city felt it could afford. Nonetheless, Quill was always allowed to run through his biennial charade, dramatically announcing at the last moment a settlement that had actually been agreed on days earlier. Naturally, no one took too seriously Quill's blustering about a transit strike: people...
This time, though, there were some important differences. Outgoing Mayor Robert Wagner, who had worked hand-in-glove with Quill during three mayoral terms, was weary and obviously bored as his last days as mayor approached. He made only a feint here and there toward seriously talking with Quill, finally left town for Acapulco 20 hours before the strike deadline of 5 a.m. on Jan. 1. Moreover, Quill, a sick man who had had several heart attacks and slept with an oxygen tank by his bedside, was under heavy pressure from his union to win bigger wage hikes than...
...Transit Authority, which must depend on the city's help to meet legal requirements that it be selfsupporting, tried to head off a strike, got a court order on Dec. 30 asking the T.W.U. to show cause why it should not be enjoined from striking. Mike Quill ripped the court papers to pieces before the TV cameras. Cried he: "I predict that we are in for a terrible strike." Lindsay had no legal rights to enter the conflict until his inauguration, but once the transit workers walked off the job on New Year's morning, the strike became...