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...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...
...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...
...Congress the key resolution was introduced by Frank Cousins, the leftist onetime truck driver who heads the powerful Transport and General Workers Union (1,224,000 members). It demanded "complete rejection of any defense policy based on the threat of nuclear weapons" and Britain's unilateral disarmament...
...Munich lent works, and the U.S. Navy was called in to carry the U.S. loans across the Atlantic. This week, when the show completes its run in Europe, it will be packed into air-conditioned trucks that will head with motorcycle escorts to Saint-Nazaire, where a Navy transport is waiting to take them to their second grand opening, in Detroit...
...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...