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...Whether Mr. Quill has it in back of his head to give it a tryout here - whether this bus strike is a sort of rehearsal for a general bus, subway, El and taxi strike to come - we don't know...
...Mike Quill, who carries a briar stick and limps around with a bullet in his hip, which he got in the Irish Republican Army, has been fighting since he was a Boy Scout. He started his labor career in the U. S. as moneychanger in a subway booth, got interested in union politics and helped start T. W. U. In 1937 he got a closed-shop contract for his new, pugnacious union. In 1939, as candidate for re-election to the New York City Council, he took the Communist line, refused to go along with the American Labor Party...
Last year he was called before the Dies Committee. Other witnesses had already pinned the Communistic label on Mike Quill and on two other top-ranking officers in T. W. U. : Austin Hogan and John Santo. Mike blusteringly denied the charges...
...Mike Quill's demands included an increase in wages (present wages for drivers are 75? an hour to start, 81? after four years); a six-day week, eight-hour day (instead of the present 54-hour week); three weeks vacation with pay; other improvements and benefits. Mike based his demands (later reduced) on the company's earnings, which he claimed were plentiful...
...Mike Quill had something else at stake...