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Many another orator followed: teacherish Thomas Kennedy; earnest Philip Murray; tough-minded Van A. Bittner; Sidney Hillman. Had Hillman chosen to reply to Lewis with equal bitterness, the fat might have been in the fire. Instead he spoke earnestly and reasonably for unity. Only grudgingly did Lewis shake Hillman's proffered hand after that generous speech...
Asked to express himself on the closed shop at the annual Bosses' Dinner of the Chicago Junior Association of Commerce, C. I. O. Organizer Van A. Bittner quipped: "I thought all that was settled between 1861 and 1865. Some of the States wanted to withdraw from the Union and a lot of Northerners got killed keeping them in the Union...
Laborites Lewis and Bittner moved slowly and thoroughly. They did not risk the splits and premature rough stuff that C. I. O. permitted to occur elsewhere. Chicago packinghouse labor lives "back of the yards" in a wide, dismal area of ramshackle homes and crumby tenements. Nearly all now belong to the C. I. O. Nearly all are devout Roman Catholics...
...Council, organized by Saul Alinsky, University of Chicago sociology graduate who for social research once lived with the Capone gang. The Council is sympathetic to C. I. O. Bishop Sheil has felt pressure from the packers and from A. F. of L., but last week he was on Van Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read the invocation, then sat on the platform, one chair removed from Lewis, who key-noted the threatened strike. The good Bishop realized well that in actively applying a Papal Encyclical to a labor dispute...
...yards will be stopped by the packers when the strike comes, to starve public opinion as well as the workers into submission. But as a Catholic prelate Bishop Sheil also believed in the sacredness of property rights, the wickedness of violence. He earnestly meant John Lewis and Organizer Bittner as well as Armour & Co. when he prayed God's guidance for "those upon whose shoulders are laid such heavy responsibilities, fraught with such momentous consequences...