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Deputy sheriffs took him away to prison right from the bargaining table at Manhattan's Americana Hotel. Two hours later, as he sat in the warden's office of civil prison, his head suddenly flopped forward. A doctor quickly summoned an ambulance, and Quill was taken to the emergency ward of Bellevue Hospital, where his collapse, possibly from a heart attack, was described as serious. A second team of union negotiators took over, led by T.W.U. Vice President Douglas MacMahon, 59, who shortly announced that the strike would go on "until hell freezes over...
...another offer, upping the ante to a $40 million package, and the union, having come down to $180 million, cut its demands even more. But the two could not seem to come any closer, and the bargaining mood worsened after the Transit Authority turned down union bids to have Quill and his eight colleagues released from custody. President Johnson sent Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz to New York to discuss the impasse with negotiators, and Wirtz returned to Washington to report gloomily: "The situation still remains uncertain and serious." In response to an appeal from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Johnson announced that...
...only made the T.W.U. madder and brought charges that the Authority was trying to bust the union. "As a result," said Douglas MacMahon, "negotiations are now at a standstill." No one was quite sure just how long New Yorkers would have to walk, but everyone suddenly recalled that Mike Quill had predicted a long strike, perhaps as long as 28 or 29 days...
...mayor in 20 years was planned to be the city's most gala political fling since George Washington's presidential inauguration in 1789. There was to be a sort of floating celebration, with swinging parties in all five boroughs and a glittering inaugural ball in Manhattan. Mike Quill's strike fixed all that-everything was canceled except the ball-but it could not subdue the high spirit and fresh style that John Lindsay brought to a tired office. In the inaugural ballroom at the Americana Hotel, only floors away from strike negotiation headquarters, the mayor...
...York transit strike has brought the New Snobbery into open view. The leader of the Transit Workers' Union, Michael J. Quill, was born and grew up in Ireland, and many other leaders and members of the TWU are of Irish descent. They do not belong to a fashionable minority group, and therefore their demands -- and their problems -- can be dismissed with scorn. I have heard many Harvard-Radcliffe students, all thoroughly sympathetic to the civil rights movement and to the plight of the Appalachians, scoff at the idea that skilled transit workers should make more than $3.13 an hour...