Word: hillman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such sentiments coming, officially sanctioned, from one of the original C-. I. 0. unions were of prime Labor significance. With John Lewis' United Mine WTorkers and Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Garment Workers Union was one of C. I. O.'s principal pillars. Its cash support alone has run to some...
...troubled machinery of national politics so that where the one smashes through in ruthless effort at conquest, the other follows after with soft words, with the trappings of intellectualism and the tenuous and slithering tactics of the ancient masters of deception and ensnaring. We refer to one called Sidney Hillman...
...convention vote of 25,616 to 1,227, recommended that the A. F. of L. executive council be empowered to expel suspended C. I. O. unions at its own discretion. The rebel unions marked for first expulsion were John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America and Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America-C. I. O.'s twin financial pillars. Least likely to be ousted was David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers, for Mr. Dubinsky has long wanted peace. Moreover, Mr. Dubinsky, who has always played second fiddle to Mr. Hillman...
...Dubinsky and Mr. Hillman...
...Messrs. Hillman & Lewis and their own union members. To Mr. Lewis' miners the report spoke of ". . . officers who levy upon them huge assessments for the serving of personal ends." To Mr. Hillman's clothing workers it mentioned ". . . undue special assessments for purposes of political aggrandizement." As for Mr. Dubinsky's garment workers, A. F. of L. could not believe that they would ". . . long tolerate invasions of their jurisdiction, the ignoring and belittling of their officers, the whispered and undercover ridicule of their leaders...