By 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...
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