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...would be enough. This was a hoary Communist device, designed to give the leftists solid control of the party. The rules were gaveled through by Convention Chairman Albert Fitzgerald, president of the United Electric Workers, and round-faced puppet of the U.E.W.'s real bosses, Communist-line Julius Emspak and James Matles...
Then Henry took a hand in the U.E.'s bitter inter-union fight. He gave his blessing to U.E.'s big bosses-Communist-line Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and Director of Organization James J. Matles, and their stooge president, paunchy Albert J. Fitzgerald...
Carey's move to investigate Communists in the union died without coming to a vote. A six-to-one majority voted to boot him and his followers out of the union "if they persist in their disruption." The steamroller crushed Carey's opposition slate, easily carried Emspak, Matles and Fitzgerald into control for another year...
...standard answer for that charge. No one should be booted out of a union, he said blandly, whether "Communist, Socialist, Democrat or Republican . . . because of color, creed, religion or political belief." He hotly denied that he was a Communist himself. So did his top assistants, Party-Liners Julius Emspak and James Matles...
Next day, by just about the same ratio, they voted back into office U.E.'s Big Three: waspish Albert Fitzgerald, no Red himself, as U.E.'s figurehead president; Communist-wired James J. Matles and Julius Emspak, U.E.'s real bosses, as top organizer and secretary-treasurer...