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...past year. Thirty-nine were Hawaiians who defied questions asked by committeemen during an on-the-scene investigation of Communism in the territory; four were scientists who worked on atomic bomb projects; the others were various Reds and officials of the Red-run United Electrical Workers Union, including Julius Emspak and James Matles. Conviction may bring $1,000 fine, a year in jail...
...hushed audience, Murray told of "meetings" in New York between Communist Party Bosses William Foster and Eugene Dennis, U.E. Bosses James Matles and Julius Emspak and "our good friend Harry Bridges." He charged: "There evolved plans and policies to corrupt and destroy if possible the trade union movement in America. And if our country was engulfed in another war, they would go underground and undermine the people and this Government of ours...
...three bosses of the Red-wired electrical workers-President Albert Fitzgerald, Julius Emspak, James Matles-made the same fruitless overtures. Big Joe Curran, an ex-party-liner himself, boss of the maritime union and one of Murray's chief aides, chortled: "It used to be when Jim Matles walked in the room, we all stood up. Now we don't even let him in the room." This was not quite correct: Murray did let him in, and listened before waving...
...Else. The party-liners rolled on. Burly President Fitzgerald rode victoriously into another term by a vote of 2,335 to 1,500; Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and James J. Matles, the U.E.'s top organizer, rode back in with him. Then the triumphant triumvirate threw down a six-point ultimatum to Phil Murray. Its net: punish other C.I.O. unions for "raiding" U.E. membership ranks-or else...
James B. Carey, secretary-treasurer of the C.I.O. and onetime U.E. president, was much better informed. Carey had been ousted from the U.E. presidency by the men behind Fitzgerald-Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and Organizing Director James Matles. He named them, along with Fitzgerald and the whole U.E. executive board, as men who "sacrifice the interests of the U.E. to promote the foreign policy of the Soviet Union...