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Article: Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, RIP. (obituary)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 5, 1985
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THE TELL a story about David Dubinsky, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and John L. Lewis, founder of the CIO. In the mid-1930s, Dubinsky broke away from the AFL and joined the CIO. A no-nonsense anti-Communist, Dubinsky became alarmed at the influx, with Lewis's approval, of Communist Party organizers into the ranks of the CIO staff and officialdom. When he protested to Lewis at this open Communist infiltration, Lewis drawled his reply: "Well, Dave, stop worring about the Communists. After all, who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?"
Unconvinced by Lewis's reassurances, Dubinsky returned to the AFL. In the meantime, Lewis--a ...