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...would satisfy the right wing and not offend the left. The six-man committee was delicately balanced. From the right wing: Reuther; Milton Murray* of the Newspaper Guild; onetime Socialist Emil Rieve of the textile workers; from the left: the furriers' Communist boss, Ben Gold; red-hot Michael Quill of the transport workers, who has been denying for years that he is a Communist; the white-collar workers' pink Abram Flaxer. All that weary Phil Murray hoped to get from such a committee was a formula for peace...
...figures made it look as if a sizable dent had been made in the housing shortage. But outside of statistics-minded Washington, the hopes of ordinary people to get the kind of place they want to live in were far down. In Manhattan, Communist-line Michael Quill, head of the C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union, saw his chance to create unrest and political capital. He urged veterans to squat in boarded-up Fifth Avenue mansions, as the Commies had done in London...
Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...
...speeches and statements that issued from union halls, President Truman was a "double-crosser," a "strikebreaker" and the author of a "slave bill." Red Mike Quill, New York City's noisy American Labor Party councilman, shrilled: "President Truman has sold out to our native fascists . . . betrayed the program of Roosevelt...
...C.I.O. Transport Workers Union, led by Communist-line Mike Quill, had threatened to strike (TIME, March 4). When Mayor William O'Dwyer and public opinion stood firm, Mike Quill finally backed down. But the city's victory was only partial-it had just gained a calm opportunity to ponder the subway's physical and financial...