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Pat Barile, 1920-2020. | Courtesy of Barile Family
Pat Barile learned the meaning of the word devotion from the rank-and-file workers at the Sonotone Corporation plant in White Plains, N.Y. in the mid-1940s and 1950s.
Repeatedly, they elected him president of United Electrical Workers Local 428 for ten years even after Cold Warriors had branded him a Communist and instigated a witch hunt and continual efforts to decertify the UE.
Pat Barile, lower right, with some of his co-workers at the CPUSA National Office, April 1977. Top row, from left: Joelle Fishman, Ken Newcomb, Beth Edelman, Betty Smith, Ed Teixeira, Margaret Cann, and Lee Dlugin. Bottom row, from left: Henry Winston, Jake Green, and Arnold Becchetti. | People’s World Archives ....

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