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...tiny resort village called Thunder Bay. One midnight beautiful Laura Manion-who is described as vaguely resembling Marilyn Monroe-comes staggering up to the trailer she shares with her Army husband and mumbles through bruised lips that she has been raped and beaten by Saloon Keeper Barney Quill. Her husband, Lieut. Frederic Manion, stuffs a Luger in his pocket, marches into the saloon and coolly shoots Quill dead...
...craftsmen are fighting for their due in a world of monolithic industrial unionism. The Motormen's Benevolent Association, made up of 80% of the subway motormen, had been fighting the domination of the city's transit system by a powerful professional Irishman, Transport Workers Union President Mike Quill, and the determination of the mayor's Transit Authority to deal only with politically powerful T.W.U. Last year, when the motormen challenged Quill in a fight, a state supreme court enjoined M.B.A. President Theodore Loos and three other leaders from striking. Last week, knowing full well that...
...want to bust the strike and break the men who tried it, you can stick with the job and get protected by Mike Quill's union. And the motormen and conductors who want their own union and don't like Quill's way of moving can just keep walking with their Union, because the law says they have no right to walk out on the city...
...other side of town, Mike Quill, grown obese on a well-fed gluttony for power, chuckled in his beer. Amateur hour was over...
Theodore Loos and a number of the Benevolent men are in jail this morning, and Mike Quill in hurried conference with grim lieutenants. It's like the old days, sort of novel and romantic--and a source of grudging pride...