{{Short description|Pen name of American Communist writer (1906–1947)}} {{distinguish|Mike Quinn}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Mike Quin | honorific_suffix = | image = Daily Worker - Unidentified Columnist (Mike Quin).png | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Quin in 1941 | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = Mike Quin, Robert Finnegan | birth_name = Paul William Ryan | birth_date = July 1906 | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | death_date = August 14, 1947 | death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | occupation = Pro-labor journalist and novelist | language = English | nationality = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = | subject = Communism | notable_works = ''New Masses'' and ''People's World'' contributions, ''The Big Strike'' (1949) | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | years_active = 1930s–1940s}} "'''Mike Quin'''" (July 1906 – August 14, 1947) was the pen name of the American Communist writer Paul Ryan, who also used a second pen name, "Robert Finnegan". He is best known for his posthumously published book ''The Big Strike'' (1949) about the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike.
==Background== [[File:San Francisco Fire Sacramento Street 1906-04-18.jpg|thumb|left|Scene from San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, shortly after which Quin was born]] Mike Quin was born Paul William Ryan in 1906 in the Mission District of San Francisco, California, shortly after the 1906 earthquake. His mother was an Irish-Jewish-French dressmaker. His father was an Irish-American traveling salesman "who drifted out of the family orbit" when Paul and his younger brother and sister were still children.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Carlisle |editor-first=Harry |contribution = Biographical Sketch by Harry Carlisle, and Illustrations by Bits Hayden |title = On the Drumhead: A Selection from the Writing of Mike Quin: A Memorial Volume |year=1948 |publisher=Pacific Publishing Foundation |via=Internet Archive |url=https://archive.org/details/ondrumheadselec00quin |location=San Francisco |page=xx |lccn=48002621 |access-date = 4 May 2020}}</ref> Paul attended Pacific Heights Grammar School and Polytechnic High School.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mike Quin, Communist Writer, Dies |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |date=August 16, 1947 |page=9 |via=Newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1238940551/ |url-access=subscription}}</ref> With his family struggling to make ends meet, he left school at age 15 to begin earning money.{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|pp=xxii–xxiii}}
==Career== Paul Ryan took various jobs until age 19, when he became a seaman and first got involved in maritime unions. In the late 1920s, he obtained a job in a Hollywood bookstore, which was frequented by local writers.{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|p=xxv}} One of the writers was a Marxist who helped radicalize Ryan, who then joined the John Reed Club chapter in Hollywood.{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|p=xxviii}}
In 1933, Ryan began his lifelong pursuit of a writing career by having a short story, "The Sacred Thing", published in ''Scribner's Magazine''. He also started contributing to the John Reed Club's ''Partisan'' magazine, as well as to ''New Masses'' and the ''Western Worker'' (predecessor of ''People's Daily World''). It was at this time that "Mike Quin" was born. Under that pseudonym, he published a 1933 pamphlet, "And We Are Millions: The Story of Homeless Youth", a collection of testimonies from unemployed, Depression era youths convicted of vagrancy by the American justice system.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kreitzberg |first=Irving |title=Story of Homeless and Vagrant Youth Told in Pamphlet |newspaper=Daily Worker |page=5 |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v10-n208-aug-30-1933-DW-LOC.pdf |date=30 August 1933}}</ref> The pattern he established was to use "Mike Quin" for his journalistic pieces, newspaper columns, and political essays. Then, late in life, he chose "Robert Finnegan" as his pen name for mysteries and pulp fiction.<ref name=LibraryThing>{{cite web |title=Mike Quin - Author of ''The Big Strike'' |url=https://www.librarything.com/author/quinmike |publisher=LibraryThing }}</ref>
[[File:Confrontation between a policeman wielding a night stick and a striker during the San Francisco General Strike, 1934 - NARA - 541926.jpg|thumb|left|Scene from the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, about which Quin reported and later wrote a book]] Quin wrote extensively about the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike for publications such as the ''Dispatcher'' of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). In 1936–1937, he worked for the WPA Writers' Project, where he wrote about the history of the maritime and cotton-growing industries.<ref name=Wald_essay /> In 1938, he helped launch ''People's Daily World'' (later ''People's World'').{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|p=xxx}} It was the West Coast daily newspaper of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). He served as executive editor and columnist for the paper, and remained with it for the rest of his life.
In 1940, Quin was a founding member of "The Yanks Are Not Coming" committee,<ref name=GOLDEN>{{cite web |title=Golden Gate Mysteries: A Bibliography of Crime Fiction Set in the San Francisco Bay Area |archive-date=22 January 2014 |url=http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/sfmystery/extras/biographies.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122021751/http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/sfmystery/extras/biographies.html}}</ref> which was established as a pro-neutrality group within the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. The committee's primary activity was dissemination of pamphlets urging labor union members to avoid the rising tide of "war fever".<ref>{{cite web |title=Yanks Are Not Coming Committee Collected Records |url=https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/scpc-cdg-a-yanks_are_not_coming_committee |publisher=TriCollege Libraries Archives & Manuscripts |access-date=19 December 2024}}</ref> At the time, it was also the position of the CPUSA (in the wake of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) for the U.S. to stay out of the European theater of World War II.<ref name=Yanks>{{cite news |first=E.R. |last=Frank |title=Stalinists in the C.I.O.: After the Hitler Stalin Pact |journal = Socialist Appeal |url=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/cochran/1940/03/stal-cio2.html |date=16 March 1940 |publisher=Socialist Party of America |page=2}}</ref> Quin's pamphlet "The Yanks Are Not Coming!" (1940) "reached an enormous audience, attracting such nationwide attention that Walter Winchell referred to the author as one of America's most dangerous men."{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|p=xxxi}} The pro-neutrality committee largely ceased to operate after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Quin's first published anthology, ''Dangerous Thoughts'' (1940), received a congratulatory letter from Theodore Dreiser, who wrote an introduction to the follow-up anthology, ''More Dangerous Thoughts'' (1941). Also in 1941, ''People's World'' published a collection of Quin's "The Enemy Within" serials. That August, he visited New York City and was interviewed by the ''Daily Worker'',<ref>{{cite news |last1=McHenry |first1=Beth |title=Mister Quin Comes to Town |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1146162923/ |access-date=9 May 2026 |work=Daily Worker |date=28 August 1941 |location=New York}}</ref> to which he contributed poems as early as 1938<ref>{{cite news |last1=Quin |first1=Mike |title=Would You Take Sides? |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1143561400/?match=1&terms=%22Mike%20Quin%22 |access-date=9 May 2026 |work=Daily Worker |date=13 July 1938 |location=New York}}</ref> and articles as early as 1940.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Quin |first1=Mike |title=Let's Examine the Old Definitions |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/1143487021/?match=1&terms=%22Mike%20Quin%22 |access-date=9 May 2026 |work=Daily Worker |date=19 January 1940 |location=New York}}</ref> In 1943, the CIO hired him as a scriptwriter for a radio show entitled ''Facts to Fight Fascism''. From 1943 to 1945, the CIO made Quin their "CIO Reporter on the Air". One of his final assignments for the CIO was to cover the United Nations Conference on International Organization, which was held in San Francisco from 25 April–26 June 1945. In the autumn of 1945, he prepared a series of radio broadcasts for the National Maritime Union, and one also for the Marine Cooks and Stewards Union.{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|p=xxxiv}}
At the conclusion of WWII, Quin's job with the CIO ended. To earn money, he tried his hand at mystery writing under the pen name "Robert Finnegan".{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|p=xxxv}} He achieved success with three novels: ''The Lying Ladies'' (1946), ''The Bandaged Nude'' (1946), and ''Many a Monster'' (published posthumously in 1948). As Alan Wald notes, "All concern Dan Banion, an ex-soldier turned newspaper reporter who is frequently at odds with the police in his investigations."<ref name=Wald_essay>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Popular Fiction |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the American Left |last=Wald |first=Alan |author-link=Alan M. Wald |editor-last1=Buhle |editor-first1=Mari Jo |editor-link1=Mari Jo Buhle |editor-last2=Buhle |editor-first2=Paul |editor-link2=Paul Buhle |editor-last3=Georgakas |editor-first3=Dan |editor-link3=Dan Georgakas |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofam00buhl_0/page/621/mode/1up |url-access=registration |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |edition=2nd |page=621 |isbn=978-0195120882}}</ref> The novels, written in the noir genre, depict the post-war atmosphere. They were translated into French and attracted a following among fans of hard-boiled detective fiction.<ref name=Wald_essay />
Quin remained active in the CPUSA until his death. A comprehensive collection of his political writings, ''On the Drumhead'', was published posthumously in 1948.
==Personal life and death== After an unsuccessful first marriage to a woman named Rose,{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|p=xxx}} Quin married Mary King O'Donnell in 1945. They had a daughter, Colin Michaela, in July 1946.{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|p=xxxvi}}
Following several months of undiagnosed illness and fatigue, Quin received the grim news in early spring 1947 that he had pancreatic cancer with only two months to live. This occurred just before he moved with Mary and Colin to Olema, California.{{sfn|Carlisle|1948|pp=xxxvi–xxxvii}}
Mike Quin died on August 14, 1947, and was buried in San Francisco.<ref name=LibraryThing/> A memorial service, presided over by Harry Bridges of the ILWU, attracted over 500 mourners.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Quin, Mike |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the American Left |last=Rauh |first=Dolly E. |editor-last1=Buhle |editor-first1=Mari Jo |editor-link1=Mari Jo Buhle |editor-last2=Buhle |editor-first2=Paul |editor-link2=Paul Buhle |editor-last3=Georgakas |editor-first3=Dan |editor-link3=Dan Georgakas |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofam00buhl_0/page/656/mode/1up |url-access=registration |year=1998 |edition=2nd |page=656 |isbn=978-0195120882}}</ref><ref>Watson, Morris (22 August 1947). "Beloved Rebel". ''Dispatcher''.</ref>
==Works== Quin wrote "The Yanks Are Not Coming" originally as a pamphlet for the 1940 CIO annual conference in San Francisco.<ref name=Yanks/> His posthumous book ''The Big Strike'' (1949) was a compilation of his journalistic work covering the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike.
;Contributions to the ''New Masses'': * "Modern Heroes: William Green and Matthew Woll" Poem (1936)<ref> {{cite journal | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Modern Heroes: William Green and Matthew Woll | journal = New Masses | url = https://archive.org/details/v01n05-sep-1926-New-Masses/1926-33-New-Masses-Index-ocr/ | pages = 2 | date = 1 December 1936 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Did You Ever See a Dream Fighting?" (1941)<ref> {{cite journal | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Did You Ever See a Dream Fighting? | journal = New Masses | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1941/00-contents-1941-New-Masses.pdf | pages = 31 | date = 1941 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "A Letter About Sam Darcy" (1941)<ref> {{cite journal | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = A Letter About Sam Darcy | journal = New Masses | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/new-masses/1941/v40n12-sep-16-1941-NM.pdf | pages = 11 | date = 16 September 1941 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Investigation: A Poem"
;Contributions to ''People's Daily World'': * "Seeing Red" with song satirizing Henry Ford to the tune of "Yankee Doodle" (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/n515-v1n05-jan-06-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 6 January 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" with workers correspondence (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/n527-v1n17-jan-20-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 20 January 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on economic slump (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/n533-v1n23-jan-27-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 27 January 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on United Office and Professional Workers of America CIO (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/n537-v1n27-feb-01-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 1 February 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on anti-communist journalism (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n29-feb-03-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 3 February 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on International Longshore and Warehouse Union as example of trade union unity (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n31-feb-05-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 5 February 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on agriculture in China and the USA (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n37-feb-12-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 12 February 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on Jim Crow (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n41-feb-17-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 17 February 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref><ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n43-feb-19-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 19 February 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on mimeograph publications (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n49-feb-26-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 26 February 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on the WPA's Federal Arts Committee and art for labor (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n54-mar-04-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 4 March 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Seeing Red" on free speech for labor unions on radio (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Seeing Red | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n58-mar-09-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 9 March 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Double Check" on benefits of unionizing (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Double Check | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n60-mar-11-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 11 March 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Double Check" on Maxwell Anderson's play ''Valley Forge'' (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Double Check | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n66(63)-mar-18-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 18 March 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Double Check" on benefits of Big Business (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Double Check | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n68-mar-21-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 21 March 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Double Check" on Americans journeying to fight in the Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Double Check | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n74-mar-28-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 28 March 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * "Double Check" on Americans now fighting in the Lincoln Battalion during the Spanish Civil War (1938)<ref> {{cite news | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Double Check | newspaper = People's Daily World | publisher = World Publishing Co. | url = https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/peoples-world/v1n76-mar-30-1938-PDW.pdf | pages = 5 | date = 30 March 1938 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref>
;Books as "Mike Quin" * ''The C.S. Case Against Labor: The Story of the Sacramento Criminal Syndicalism Railroading'' (1935)<ref> {{cite book | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = The C.S. Case Against Labor: The Story of the Sacramento | publisher = International Labor Defense, Northern California District | place = San Francisco, California | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=85ZYAAAAMAAJ | date = 1935 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * ''Ashcan the M-Plan: The Yanks Are NOT Coming'' (1940)<ref> {{cite book | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = Ashcan the M-Plan: The Yanks Are NOT Coming | publisher = Yanks Are Not Coming Committee (Maritime Federation of the Pacific Cost, District Council 2) | place = | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XqN4GQAACAAJ | date = 1940 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * ''Dangerous Thoughts'' (1940)<ref> {{cite book | first1 = Mike | last1 = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | first2 = Al | last2 = Richmond | author-link2 = Al Richmond | title = Dangerous Thoughts | publisher = People's World | place = San Francisco, California | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_PsuAQAAIAAJ | date = 1940 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * ''The Enemy Within'' (1941)<ref> {{cite book | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | title = The Enemy Within | publisher = People's World | place = San Francisco, California | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ORe2GAAACAAJ | date = 1941 | access-date = 5 May 2020}}</ref> * ''More Dangerous Thoughts'' (1941)<ref> {{cite book | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | contribution = introduction by Theodore Dreiser, illustrations by Rosalie Todd and Chuck | title = More Dangerous Thoughts | publisher = People's World | place = San Francisco, California | url = https://archive.org/details/moredangeroustho00quinrich | date = 1941 | access-date = 4 May 2020}}</ref> * ''On the Drumhead: A Selection from the Writing of Mike Quin; A Memorial Volume'' (1948)<ref> {{cite book | first = Mike | last= Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | editor-last = Carlisle | editor-first = Harry | contribution = biographical sketch by Harry Carlisle, and illustrations by Bits Hayden | title = On the Drumhead: A Selection from the Writing of Mike Quin: A Memorial Volume | publisher = Pacific Publishing Foundation | place = San Francisco | url = https://archive.org/details/ondrumheadselec00quin | date = 1948 | access-date = 4 May 2020}}</ref> *''The Big Strike'' (1949)<ref> {{cite book | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | contribution = postscript by Harry Bridges, title drawing by Rockwell Kent, illustrations by Bits Hayden | title = The Big Strike | publisher = Olema Publishing Company | place = Olema, California | url = https://archive.org/details/bigstrike00quinrich | date = 1949 | access-date = 4 May 2020}}</ref><ref> {{cite book | first = Mike | last = Quin | author-link = Mike Quin | contribution = postscript by Harry Bridges, title drawing by Rockwell Kent, illustrations by Bits Hayden | title = The Big Strike | publisher = International Publishers | place = New York | url = https://lccn.loc.gov/79014101 | year = 1979 | lccn = 79014101 | access-date = 4 May 2020}}</ref>
; Books and Stories as "Robert Finnegan" * ''The Lying Ladies'' (1946)<ref> {{cite book | first = Robert | last = Finnegan | contribution = | title = Lying Ladies | publisher = Simon & Schuster | place = New York | url = https://lccn.loc.gov/46001879 | date = 1946 | lccn = 46001879 | access-date = 4 May 2020}}</ref> * ''The Bandaged Nude'' (1946)<ref> {{cite book | first = Robert | last = Finnegan | title = The Bandaged Nude | publisher = Simon & Schuster | place = New York | date = 1946 | asin = B000TYT93G}}</ref> * "Business Before Bullets" (1947) * ''Many a Monster'' (1948)<ref> {{cite book | first = Robert | last = Finnegan | title = Many a Monster | publisher = Simon & Schuster | place = New York | url = https://lccn.loc.gov/48005618 | date = 1948 | lccn = 48005618 | access-date = 4 May 2020}}</ref>
;Short Stories as Paul Ryan: * "The Sacred Thing" (1933)<ref>{{cite web |title=Short Stories by Paul Ryan |website=Scribner's Magazine |url=https://writingatlas.com/author/1843/paul-ryan/ |via=Writing Atlas}} The story is also reprinted in ''On the Drumhead''.</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External sources== * [https://archive.org/details/bigstrike00quinrich The Big Strike] (PDF)
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