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up all of a sudden. He was only a year or two out of Ireland. He turned up just about that same time. Mike Quill has always struck me, and many other people, as being more of a Communist than most of them, although he made a great show of being a pious and devout Catholic and would ostentatiously go to a Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, come in a minute late, always coming to a late Mass, not to an early one where all the holy pious working people go, where people would see him and know he was there. He made a great point of it. He would go to confession at some big church before Easter or Christmas where there would be long lines of people waiting to take their confession. He would be seen piously, with his hands crossed, waiting to make his confession. So that when anybody said, “Mike Quill is a Communist,” the answer would be, “He can't be. He's a devout Catholic. I know he is. I saw him myself at St. Vincent Ferrer Church on the day before Easter standing in a line to confess. I know he can't be a Communist.” There was a time when they said that he used to make his confession to Father John P. Boland of the State Mediation Board. He did that, supposedly, to get Father Boland perfectly sure that he wasn't in with the Communists, so





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