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...subway strike was perfectly digestible to Michael Quill, brass-mouthed boss of T.W.U. He promised a strike on July 1. And radical Mike Quill was backed by conservative C.I.O. leaders because they could see that, with Government spreading its jurisdiction over industry, trade unionism might eventually have to fight Civil Service for its life...
Last year's strike, the seventh in a row, broke up into two demonstrations when union-leader Mike Quill, announced as speaker by the student Union, was accused of phonographic fidelity to the Stalinist party-line. This year the Strike Committee has a broader base, being backed by the Committee Against Military Intervention, the Council for Democracy in Education, the Radcliffe Student Government, and the Radcliffe "News," as well as the two Student Unions...
Later, the two committees reached an informal agreement for peace between the groups. Thomas refused to speak from the same platform as Quill, however, and it was necessary to hold two separate meetings...
Last year's arrangements for the demonstration were thrown into turmoil when the Harvard Anti-War Committee broke away from the original peace group, claiming that it was Communist dominated. Michael Quill, C.I.O. leader, was originally scheduled to speak to the strikers, but the Anti-War Committee asked Norman Thomas to address its adherents...
...days after his New York City bus strike had ended, Transport Union Chieftain Michael J. Quill was flagged to the curb by an angry policeman for steering his car down the wrong side of Riverside Drive. "Don't you know who I am?" complained Busman Quill. "Who?" said the cop. "I'm Mike Quill." "Never heard of you," grunted the cop, wrote out a ticket...