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...accent seemed to make speaking an effort, so he introduced his secretary, Philip Goon, and instructed him to tell me his Party's attitude toward the Communists...
...have no trouble in Boston," took up Mr. Goon. "The Communists do not try to organize here. Maybe in other cities they do, but I do not think so. Chinese know what the Communists do to the people. They turn the land upside down for the people. Our people here have relatives in China, they know what happens. There is no trouble in Boston...
...Goon Politics. The C.I.O. went to work in Wayne County, the heavily industrial base of the state. Into every Detroit precinct C.I.O.-P.A.C. threw its paid and unpaid political workers in order to get their candidates elected precinct captains. They caught the Old Guard Democrats napping, and the coalition wound up in the 1948 state convention with a two-thirds control of the delegate vote. The regulars fought back in 1950, sometimes with nominating petitions salted with forged names. Then the going got rough...
...their heels came Rhee's uniformed police, who made a great show of arresting four of the rioters, but also arrested at least one of the rioters' victims. "We don't know who they are," said Rhee's propaganda directors blandly of the troublemaking goon squad. But an American who saw the show recognized one of the gang's leaders as a member of the rough, tough police force of Rhee's Home Minister...
...previous strikes the Reds could always count at least on closing down the Renault plant-long a Communist stronghold-in the Paris suburb of Billancourt. This time, Red goon squads succeeded in shutting off power and steam, but were challenged and thrown out by fighting contingents from non-Communist unions, and production was soon back to normal...