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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...
...Extracting a new quill from Pro's wing...
...While this hot fight was going on in the Security Council, the UNO Assembly had its wrangles too. Old-rose, well-upholstered Paul-Henri Spaak, the Assembly president, relaxed in his old-rose, well-upholstered chair on the blue-&-gold rostrum, sometimes made a note with a gigantic goose quill, quickly handled awkward situations. One spat came after Ambassador Gromyko had urged that the Communist-backed World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) be granted UNO representation. Peppery Premier Peter Fraser of New Zealand spoke up angrily: "Unless we get a resolution with which Mr. Gromyko agrees on every...