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...space of four short paragraphs you managed to give as biased an account of the recent strike on the Pennsylvania Railroad as one of that company's paid advertisements. [TIME says that] Quill became a union leader by "periodically paralyzing New York City's subways with strikes and threats of strikes." We have news for you. In 26 years of TWU leadership, Quill never pulled a strike on the New York subways...
...CUTS were announced for Pennsylvania Railroad executives and nonunion employees. Cuts range from 5% to 30%, are for an indefinite period. Pennsy has been running in the red since resuming operations on Sept. 13 after twelve-day strike led by Mike Quill's Transport Workers Union...
...expected, Mike Quill, boss of the A.F.L.C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, claimed a notable victory, saying: "The Pennsylvania Railroad has been dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century." But the Pennsylvania's Chairman James M. Symes was closer to the truth: "Quill finally made an agreement he could have had without a strike." All the points in the settlement were offered by the road before the walkout; the argument was mainly over the wording...
...Quill, who rose to power by periodically paralyzing New York City's subways with strikes and threats of strikes, was as truculent as ever. He rejected an offer by the Pennsy to submit the issues to binding arbitration, held out for his "rockbottom" terms-including a demand that the Pennsy settle a union jurisdictional dispute in favor of his union. Quill still demanded power to prevent the Pennsy from assigning his workers to different jobs on the line, from closing antiquated plants and selling obsolete equipment, from contracting out maintenance and construction work. He even wanted his unionists...
...leaders of other rail unions met with Mitchell in Chicago to thresh out the problem of featherbedding on all railroads, Mike Quill turned his thick Irish brogue on Mitchell, whom he called a liar. The only heartening thing about Mike Quill's strike was the growing evidence that the U.S. has had its fill of Quill...