Word: hillmanism
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Abuse, patient Sidney Hillman had learned, was often the measure of his effectiveness. Candidate Bricker's attack was a high point in the softspoken, bespectacled labor leader's strifebound career...
Stumping the country in 1944, John Bricker declared: "Sidney Hillman's convention cared no more for the Democratic party than for the Constitution of the United States. Power and greed to dominate his fellow men are the motives back of his political activity...
...became president of the infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Under his astute guidance, it grew into a prodigious union with 350,000 members, the source of Sidney Hillman's power. "Enemy of the Working Class." He became the model of a labor statesman in a capitalist world. He rejected Marxism, accepting instead the theory that the best way to improve labor's lot is to improve management. With funds of the A.C.W. he pulled many a manufacturer out of bankruptcy. He helped them increase the efficiency of their business. He established industry-wide insurance programs...
Dictator? Labor's topmost bosses cried the alarum. Placid Bill Green roused himself: "Fascism may grip America unawares." P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman stirred on his sickbed: "The most extreme and autocratic controls over the liberties and democratic rights of American workers ever seriously proposed in the history of our nation." Phil Murray could see "destruction of the labor movement" as Harry Truman's sole aim. John Lewis, fresh from his handshaking with the President, was discreetly silent...
...organizers into the field, said that $2 million had already been pledged to the drive. The C.I.O. field men, he explained, would be predominantly native Southerners, largely war veterans, would concentrate on both Negro and white workers. For a question on the connection between his program and Sidney Hillman's P.A.C., Bittner had an ambiguous reply...