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...common agreement, the most senseless strike of the year was the stoppage of the Pennsylvania, the nation's largest railroad, by power-hungry Labor Boss Mike Quill, his 15,000 nonoperating Transport Workers...
Even pro-labor editorialists beat on Quill for his public-be-damned arrogance, responsible labor leaders conspicuously shunned his cause, and the 52,000 idled Pennsy workers from other unions chafed to get back to work. Last week Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell abandoned his seven-year stand of strict impartiality in labor disputes to rap Mike Quill: "Reasonable people sitting down at the bargaining table can settle this dispute very quickly," said he. "If Mike wants to be reasonable-and the company, I think, is reasonable in this area-he can settle...
...York Post scored Quill's "the public be damned" attitude. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "It is now evident that Quill, regarded by New Yorkers as purely a local nuisance, is a national nuisance...
...been slight. For the Pennsylvania, the strike was costly. The road has already lost $1,814,640 this year, estimates it will lose $2,500,000 a day in passenger and freight revenue because of the shutdown. But one factor softens the blow. It will receive payments estimated by Quill at $600,000 a day from a strike fund set up last year by most of the nation's biggest railroads...
...week's end the National Mediation Board's Chairman Francis O'Neill was still trying to bring the railroad and union together to resume talks. Cries Quill: "We are sitting on our original proposals. This is going to be a long strike...