Word: fitzgeralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Electrical Workers' Albert Fitzgerald had hardly claimed that his locals were "autonomous" (and thus no part of a labor monopoly) when Senate Committee Chairman Robert Taft jumped in. Said he: "But you took away the charter of the Bridgeport local because it fired 27 Communists...
...Fitzgerald had the 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...
Shouted President Fitzgerald: "I have seen one of the finest examples of Red-baiting here this morning!" But committee members were also wise to that one. As well as most of labor, they knew that U.E.W. had long been the C.I.O.'s biggest Communist-dominated union...
Notes on U.S. customs, manners & morals as reported in the U.S. press: ¶Said Seattle's Fire Chief William Fitzgerald: no man can face a crisis with his pants off, but a woman forgets about modesty if the fire is hot enough. Nevertheless he warned firemen not to be crude when rescuing ladies from bathtubs. "Don't just break down the door. Knock first and say, 'Ma'am, this is the fire department.' Then break down the door...
Miss Betty Fitzgerald, Radcliffe '48, will take part in the conference which will be recorded and distributed through the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, Clifton R. Wharton '47, secretary of the National Communications Committee, announced last night...