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WILLIAM A. HILLMAN University of Idaho Moscow, Idaho
...TIME, twelve years ago. She learned in labor's own school of hard knocks. She handed out leaflets at the gates of industrial plants and once got roughed up on a picket line. David Dubinsky hired her as an organizer for his A.F.L. garment workers, and Sidney Hillman hired her away to write for his C.I.O. clothing workers' Advance...
Alfred Sise '32 will keep up his record of never missing this event when he goes down the Hillman Highway course at Mount Washington. Former Olympians Alexander Bright '19 and Robert Livermore '32 are also among the frequent alumni competitors, but neither can match Sise's record...
...Better Connection. Under the leadership of the miners' John L. Lewis and the garment workers' Sidney Hillman and David Dubinsky, the C.I.O. was formed in 1935 with two slogans: 1) "organizing the unorganized" and 2) doing it by setting up unions of industrial (as opposed to craft) scope. The C.I.O. took with it a high proportion of the brains and drive of the A.F.L. and about one-third of the membership. The C.I.O.'s great achievements: organization of the automobile workers and the steelworkers. Its great failure: the heavy infiltration of Communists into some of its unions...
Dubinsky and his International Ladies' Garment Workers went back to the A.F.L. in 1940, Lewis went back (temporarily) in 1946, Hillman died the same year. Lewis' able lieutenant, Philip Murray, held the C.I.O. together by the cohesive pull of his own shining integrity. It took him years to clean out the Communists, an effort that sapped much of the C.I.O.'s energy. When Murray and his bitter rival William Green (both began as coal miners) died within two weeks of each other, it became possible for new men to make a new and serious try at labor...