Word: quilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Quill, raucous president of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, and a backslid Communist Party-liner, announced that he was ready to charter the first police union in New York City history and that he was busy organizing New York's 18,600 cops. He promised that his union would not strike, but on that point city officials did not trust Quill...
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...
...could be gayer than Chekhov in his gay moments, but his deeper, sadder convictions were never concealed for long. "For 25 years," he complained, "they tear a man to shreds, and then they come and present him with a quill pen made of aluminum." He had little faith in any triumph of human goodness. "In nature," he assured Bunin, "a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it's the other way round...