National Affairs: He's a Duck

Albert Fitzgerald is a jolly fat man who is president of the C.I.O.'s United Electrical Radio & Machine Workers and the stooge for the union's Communist-line bosses. Last week he gave a good demonstration of a now familiar dodge of proCommunists who are called on to explain their stand. Summoned before a subcommittee of the House Education and Labor Committee, Fitzgerald tilted back in his chair and became blandly uninformed.

Did he think the Communist Party was just a political party? Said Fitzgerald: "I don't know what to believe about it. There are too many conflicting statements. I am not too familiar...

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