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He's a hard workers.” They had no suspicion of him. I had no suspicion of him. Nobody had any suspicion of him. I don't know to this day if I have any suspicion of him, but I now regard him as a man who, whether a Communist then or not - I don't know that - had a mind full of intrigue. I came to the conclusion then that he was one of these types that would rather split hairs and draw fine lines than to get ahead with large, broad, humane movements. It was that that I blamed him for, rather than for perverting their minds to anything that could be called wrong, or even called communism. That never crossed my mind.

I thought that he probably was one of these intellectuals who was in love with labor, who thought that labor was always right and never could be wrong, and that he was one of the people who, never having belonged to a trade union, had jumped to the conclusion that the AF of L was all fuddyduds, that the new union, the new movement, was all fuddyduds, that the new union, the new movement, was all wonderful. None of that was true. The AF of L was partly fuddydud and partly competent and common sense. The CIO was partly good and progressive and partly racketeering. But there were a group of intellectuals who kept saying, “Isn't it wonderful to have this new labor movement, this great





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