Michael Joseph "Red Mike" Quill was one of the founders of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), a union founded by subway workers in New York City that expanded to represent employees in other forms of transit. He served as the President of the TWU for most of the first thirty years of its existence. A close ally of the Communist Party USA (CP) for the first twelve years of his leadership of the union, he broke with it in 1948.
Mike Quill in 1938
Quill was a devotee of the ideological thoughts of James Connolly and replicated many of his tactics.
Quill founded the TWU alongside Thomas H. O'Shea. Their shared backgrounds as Irish Republican immigrants to America reflected the core initial membership of their union.
On February 24, 1938, a delegation from the Consumers National Federation submitted to President Roosevelt a four-point program seeking establishment of a Central Consumers' Agency in the federal government. In the photograph, left to right: (front row) Felice Louria and Helen Hall. Back row, left to right: Robert S. Lynd, B.F. McLaurin, and Michael Quill; from the Library of Congress
John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, mayor of New York City, and candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular guest host of Good Morning America. Lindsay served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York City from January 1966 to December 1973.
Lindsay in 1969
Mary Harrison Lindsay and John Lindsay, at campaign event, between 1969 and 1977.
Congressman Lindsay speaking at the New York City Board of Estimate meeting at City Hall in April 1963
Lindsay speaking at City Hall in January 1966
