Word: hillman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Readiest to go was WPA, where Adminstrator Harry Hopkins had only to say the word and thousands of added workers would be taken on the rolls at WPA's field offices. While that was happening, the more visible moves of WPA were: 1) To approve Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers...
...Sidney Hillman, able little Lithuanian-born leader of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (membership: 225,000), last week emerged from WPA headquarters. He had just been discussing a new, shiny and portentous proposition with WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Said he emerging: "It will be some time before the proposal goes through-if it ever does." But he made no secret of the details of his scheme...
...clothing business, as in the wheat business, the cotton business, and many another business, a surplus of products has piled up. In New York, for example, there are 200,000 unsold men's garments on the manufacturers' shelves. Until these surpluses are sold, explained Mr. Hillman, his Amalgamated Clothing Workers will not get much work...
...Mine Workers had already read themselves out, as even the ouster resolution noted. Nor was it explained why of all C.I.O. unions the ax had fallen on the Flat Glass Workers and the Smelters, both relatively unimportant. Logical union to go and the one expected to go was Sidney Hillman's big Amalgamated Clothing Workers. But whatever the strategy may have been one thing was sure: it was not in the interests of labor peace...
...theory David Dubinsky is one of C. I. O.'s "Big Three"-with John Lewis of the United Mine Workers and Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. In practice there has been only a "Big Two.'' Suspicious of Mr. Dubinsky's continued friendliness with William Green and Matthew Woll of A. F. of L., Messrs. Lewis & Hillman simply ignored his counsel. Pushed in opposite directions by factions in his own union, torn between his high faith in the C. I. O. cause and his personal loyalty to A. F. of L. (he was the first...