Word: hillmanism
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Communists attacked him. When he presided with Automaker William Knudsen over U.S. war industry, as associate director of 0PM, the Reds railed: "What is Mr. Hillman's little game now? He has cooperated shamelessly with Big Business. . . . He is an enemy of the working class...
John Lewis mocked him. Hillman had joined with Lewis in 1936 in the rebel C.I.O. movement. When Hillman suggested later that the schism from A.F.L. might be healed, Lewis thundered: "And now comes the piercing wail and the laments of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers," and fumingly invited Hillman to get out of C.I.O. But in the end it was Lewis...
...March 1944, Hillman was assailed by A.F.L. rivals for collaborating with New York Communists in the American Labor party, which he helped organize. That year the abuse that Sidney Hillman seemed to love reached its climax. As head of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee and the great & good friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Hillman had become a political power. "Clear it with Sidney" rang around the hustings...
Whether Roosevelt said it or not (the story has been denied) Hillman's refusal to "clear" Jimmy Byrnes for the Vice Presidency ended in the nomination of a man more acceptable to labor-Harry Truman...
Smiling and unruffled, Hillman went on his way. He went to Paris and helped organize the World Federation of Trade Unions and threw U.N. delegates into angry debate by proposing that W.F.T.U. be permitted a voice in U.N. councils...