Mike Quin

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.

[4] 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).

[5] Quin wrote extensively about the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike for publications such as the Dispatcher of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).

The committee's primary activity was dissemination of pamphlets urging labor union members to avoid the rising tide of "war fever".

(1940) "reached an enormous audience, attracting such nationwide attention that Walter Winchell referred to the author as one of America's most dangerous men.

"[10] 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.

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.