Mike Quill
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Michael Joseph "Red Mike" Quill was an Irish-American labor leader and politician who co-founded the Transport Workers Union of America, a union of subway workers in New York City that expanded to rep
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.
A delegation from the Consumers National Federation submits to President Roosevelt a four-point program seeking establishment of a Central Consumers' Agency in the federal government, February 24, 1938. Front row (L-R): Felice Louria and Helen Hall. Back row: Robert S. Lynd, B.F. McLaurin, and Michael Quill.
Quill is ejected from a Dies Committee hearing for denouncing the committee during questioning, May 8, 1940
Joseph Curran
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Joseph Curran was a merchant seaman and an American labor leader. He was founding president of the National Maritime Union from 1937 to 1973, and a vice president of the Congress of Industrial Organiz
Curran in 1937
Curran (right), President of the National Maritime Union, chats with Capt. Clifton Lastic of the Liberty ship SS Bert Williams
Curran (left) with Congressman Vito Marcantonio (center) and New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at a labor rally