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Donald Nelson last week denied any alarm over a manpower shortage, said: "Materials are the only limiting factor on American war production." Sidney Hillman, labor half of the late Knudsenhillman, announcing his retirement from Government service, proudly reassured the country that his farsighted 1940-41 training program had obviated the danger. But Paul V. McNutt, whose job as manpower tsar makes him one of the big five in the President's war council, knows differently and has figures to back...
...Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers (men's clothing) are doing better, have landed the great bulk of all uniform orders. Last week WPB promised to give 20% of that work to I.L.G.W.U., and I.L.G.W.U. has little interest in fighting for much more against another union which is better trained for heavy uniform work anyway. What it is really after: cotton uniforms, nurses' wear, powder bags, field jackets, Mackinaws, cartridge belts, parachutes...
...immaculately groomed, Lund stepped alertly into the old Sidney Hillman offices in the Social Security Building. Heartsore Sidney Hillman was gone...
...that rose on the curly head of Wendell Lund, son of a Lutheran minister, had set on the stooped, little Russian-born son of a Jewish merchant. After almost three years of anxious, conscientious, misunderstood service to Franklin Roosevelt, Hillman was through. He had wanted the job that went to Paul McNutt. The job that went to Wendell Lund might have galled him. But what would have been a long step down for Sidney Hillman was a long step up for Wendell Lund...
...Among Presidential assistants the public finds that only Ickes, Frances Perkins, Hillman are "disappointing." On Jesse Jones, opinion is evenly divided. The man doing the best job: Donald Nelson...