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...morning last week, blustery, bogtrotting Mike Quill, boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, walked up to union pickets outside Philadelphia's 30th Street Station. Got to get some exercise, boys," he said in his carefully nurtured County Kerry brogue, and took a picket sign and began to march. Thus last week did Mike Quill's T.W.U., along with the System Federation union, shut down the Pennsylvania Railroad for the first time in its history. To newsmen Quill growled: "It took 114 years to close down this line, and it may take another 114 years to open...
...Although Quill's union and System Federation have only 20,000 Pennsylvania maintenance employees, the strike threw out of work another 52,000 Pennsylvania train men, engineers, conductors and office employees. Canceled out by the strike on the nation's biggest freight and passenger carrier were 722 daily passenger trains, and 870 freight trains, which run through 13 states...
...dispute has dragged on for 38 months. Twice the issues were submitted to impartial arbitrators, including a fact-finding committee appointed by President Eisenhower. Each time the railroad accepted the recommendations, but blackthorn-toting Mike Quill spurned them...
...minutes before the strike deadline, the railroad had made concessions which it estimated would amount to about $1,000,000 a year. Cried the Pennsy's Chairman James M. Symes: "There is absolutely no reason for this strike. Good progress had been made by the negotiating teams. Obviously Quill has been playing fast and loose with the public welfare for his own purposes...
Fiery-tempered Mike Quill has never seemed much concerned about the public welfare. Boss of the small (130,000 members), belligerent T.W.U. since 1936, Quill seems to get a special delight out of threatening strikes. Even the labor-loving...