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...Transport Workers' President Mike Quill, who had already led 40,000 of Manhattan's subway, bus and elevated operators out of the Communist-dominated Greater New York C.I.O. Council, locked horns with his own Communist-dominated international executive board. When the board refused to endorse Harry Truman, Mike countered by kicking out smart, swarthy Harry Sacher as lawyer ($6,000 a year) for T.W.U.'s Local 100. Said Quill: "He is a conniving member of the Communist Party and he has connived with the party to wreck the union. Sacher has an ego like a peacock...
Sacher went, but still held on to his $12,000-a-year job as counsel for the T.W.U.'s international board. Quill cried that he had only begun to fight. At the T.W.U. convention next December he promised a "give & take, head-on fight between the Communist Party and those of us who represent the membership...
...progress for Pitcairn to swallow. For one thing, it would mean giving up the old schoolhouse that John Adams, last of the mutineers, had built some 150 years ago. There Adams first taught the islanders to read from the Bounty's Bible, and to write with the worn quill pens from Captain Bligh's desk...
...Communist-cored Greater New York C.I.O. Council, which was noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and bus drivers to have nothing more to do with...
That did not mean that Quill, one of labor's most devoted followers of the far-left line, had been converted all the way over to the right. But it did mean that Quill had put trade unionism ahead of politics and would be on Phil Murray's side if a showdown with the C.I.O.'s Communist-liners developed...