Albert Fitzgerald

{{Short description|American trade unionist}} {{Infobox person | name = Albert J. Fitzgerald | image = Leaders of United Electrical Workers. Left to right Hugh Harley, Emil Mazey, Gertrude Southern, James Matles, Albert Fitzgerald. Photos by Bill Andrews (or Jacoby Sims). Sep 14, 1972 Slide 2 Fitzgerald Crop.png | caption = Fitzgerald in 1972 | alt =  | birth_name =  | birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|09|21|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Newburyport, Massachusetts<ref name="BP">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-albert-fitzgerald-75/188388729/|title=Albert Fitzgerald, 75, Led UE for 37 Years|first=Marie|last= Burke|work=The Boston Globe|date= May 3, 1982| page= 34}}</ref> | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1982|05|01|1906|09|21}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts | other_names = | occupation = Trade Unionist | years_active = | known_for = President of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) (1941-78) | notable_works = }} '''Albert Joseph Fitzgerald''' (September 21, 1906 - May 1, 1982) was an American trade unionist from Lynn, Massachusetts.

==Life and career== The son of Michael Fitzgerald and his wife Maria Kirby, Albert Joseph Fitzgerald was born Fitzgerald was born on September 21, 1906 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.<ref>Albert Joseph Fitzgerald in ''Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915'', 1906, Newburyport, Massachusetts, certificate number 182, page 617</ref><ref>Albert Fitzgerald in the ''U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014''</ref> He was educated in schools in his native to town.<ref name="BP"/>

A leader in the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was President of UE starting in 1941 after defeating James B. Carey<ref name="Olson1999">{{cite book |last1=Olson |first1=James Stuart |title=Historical Dictionary of the 1960s |date=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29271-2 |page=166 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jUfiMkBSMrAC&dq=Albert+Fitzgerald&pg=PA166 |accessdate=2 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref> until his retirement in 1978. During his time as UE President, the organization was expelled from the CIO for alleged communist domination. The union continued organizing as an independent union thereafter and survived raiding and rebuke from other unions.<ref name="Filippelli, 1995">{{cite book |last1=Filippelli |first1=Ronald L. |last2=McColloch |first2=Mark D. |title=Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers |date=1995 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-7914-2182-6 |page=182 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XkNmcyA9EfsC&q=ronald+filippelli+UE |language=en}}</ref><ref name=NYTobit> {{cite news | first = Walter H. | last = Waggoner

| title = Albert Fitzgerald, 75, Former Union Leader | newspaper = New York Times | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/04/obituaries/albert-fitzgerald-75-former-union-leader.html

| page = D34 | date = 4 May 1982 | accessdate = 10 June 2020}}</ref>

Fitzgerald died at University Hospital, Boston (merged into Boston Medical Center in 1996) on May 1, 1982 at the age of 75.<ref name=NYTobit/>

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==External links== * {{cite magazine |title=Labor's Communists Come Under Fire |journal=Life |date=24 March 1947 |volume=22 |issue=12 |url=https://archive.org/details/Life-1947-03-24-Vol-22-No-12/page/31/mode/1up}}

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