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Tough-fibered little Sidney Hillman, who has so far survived all the violent winds of controversy in Washington, last week met a hurricane that threatened to blow him away...
Transplanted from a comfortable C.I.O. clothing workers' union to the windiest spot in the capital, Mr. Hillman was given the vast assignment of the defense program's labor problems. Shrewd, resilient, he has bent before gales but still held fast until a dispute started in the Federal Works Agency...
...would cause "a reign of terror" in the building trades in Michigan. In other words, A.F. of L. would probably strike $50,000,000 worth of building in the Detroit area, to say nothing of what it might do to defense projects elsewhere in the U.S. OPM's Hillman took the responsibility of making the final decision. Although the Currier Co. had already started work, Mr. Hillman ordered its contract withheld. Then came the hurricane...
...crime, it should come out and demand the removal of monopoly mauler Thurman Arnold. For it was Mr. Arnold who reputedly suggested only two weeks ago the possibility of prosecution of the A.F. of L. for violating the anti-trust laws. It was he who said that O.P.M.'s Hillman was wrong to grant 300 Michigan defense houses to the A.F. of L., when the C.I.O.-organized Currier Lumber Company had bid $431,000 lower. And it was Arnold who brought to light O.P.M's secret and illegal order granting the A.F. of L. a building works monopoly...
Meanwhile another housing mess appeared last week, involving OPM Associate Director Sidney Hillman. P. J. Currier, president of Detroit's Currier Lumber Co., month ago underbid competitors by $431,000 for an FWA contract to build 300 defense homes at Wayne, Mich. But he has not got the contract, he charges, because Hillman has virtually granted the A.F. of L. building trades unions a closed shop. Currier has a contract with the C.I.O. United Construction Workers. If he gets the job, A.F. of L. unions have threatened a Michigan-wide general walkout. FWA has asked OPM, Justice and Labor...