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...Stabilizer Mike DiSalle had his try. The delegates obviously weren't interested in what he had to say. They chatted among themselves and paid so little attention that, at one point, DiSalle broke into his prepared speech and asked them to listen. The Transport Workers' bellicose Mike Quill finally quieted the crowd when he rose and threatened to throw out of the dining room the next "guest of the banquet" who uttered a sound. DiSalle then went on to say that "in an inflationary defense economy, the strong unions must be careful they do not improve their members...
Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan had a decisive reply to Mike Quill: he issued an order forbidding policemen to join labor unions. A policeman, like a soldier, may not strike, cannot give even part of his loyalty to a union. Union cops, he pointed out, could hardly be expected to police strikes by brother unionists...
...Quill, who claimed that 4,800 policemen had joined and another 5,000 had "pledged," met the order with characteristic language: "His [Monaghan's] 'I-am-the-law' order is intended to chain New York's 'finest' to their intolerable working conditions, low wages and long hours, through Iron Curtain tactics. It betrays an utter lack of confidence in the integrity of New York's policemen, who deeply and bitterly resent the coercive threats of this stumbling, petty dictator." Then he rushed the roster of his union out of the state so that...
...union, has been asking the city to take a larger share of the pension load. It was pushing a bill which would save many patrolmen $220 to $290 a year. New York's Board of Estimate has been stalling. Last week, at the height of the Quill furor, the board dusted off the bill and recommended its adoption...
...Mike Quill immediately grabbed that ball and ran. See, he said, how the mere threat of a union helps the policemen...